EU Privacy Agency Does Not Expect New EU-US Data Privacy Accord Any Time Soon December 7, 2020 By Foo Yun Chee Companies hoping the EU and the new U.S. administration will soon strike a new transatlantic data transfer pact to replace...
Court Revives Privacy Violation Claims Against Facebook for Tracking Users April 14, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court last Thursday revived nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc. of violating users’ privacy rights by tracking their...
High-Flying Zoom Faces Privacy Suit Claiming It Fails to Protect User Data March 31, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Zoom Video Communications, which has seen its stock zoom by 115% since January, is being sued by a Sacramento user...
Canadian Privacy Official Seeks Court Ruling Against Facebook February 7, 2020 By Moira Warburton Canada’s privacy commissioner asked a federal court to declare that Facebook had broken federal privacy law for the private sector,...
EU Top Court to Hear Privacy Issues of Tech Firms’ Personal Data Transfers December 15, 2019 By Foo Yun Chee Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems’ seven-year battle against Facebook reaches a crucial point on Dec. 17 when an adviser to...
FTC Democrat Tells States: ‘BalI Is In Your Court’ on Facebook Privacy Compliance December 10, 2019 By Ben Brody and Erik Larson A Democratic member on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission urged states investigating Facebook Inc. to examine whether the company disregarded...
Judge: Facebook ‘Could Not Be More Wrong’ in Cambridge Analytica Defense September 11, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to...
India Court Grants Facebook Some Relief in Key Privacy Case August 21, 2019 India’s top court handed out a reprieve to Facebook Inc. in its battle to preserve the encryption feature of its...
Facebook Warned Its Employees, Not Users, About 2018 Breach, Lawsuit Says August 16, 2019 By Katie Paul Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them...
U.S. Announces $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook, Other Privacy Settlement Terms July 24, 2019 By David Shepardson Facebook Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the...