Meta Asks Appeals Court to Tell FTC it Cannot Reopen Privacy Case November 30, 2023 By Diane Bartz Meta Platforms, which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, filed a lawsuit asking an appeals court to stop the U.S. Federal...
Judge Blocks Facebook Data Breach Victims from Suing for Damages as Group December 2, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc. users whose personal information was stolen in a September 2018...
Judge Permits Nationwide Privacy Lawsuit Against Facebook to Proceed September 10, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge on Monday ordered Facebook Inc. to face most of a nationwide lawsuit seeking damages for letting third...
Facebook Must Face Privacy Class Action Over Collecting Biometric Data August 12, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc.’s effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming that it illegally...
Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Data Breach Affecting Nearly 30 Million Users June 24, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of...
D.C. Judge Lets Cambridge Analytica Privacy Suit Against Facebook Proceed June 4, 2019 By Andrew Harris, Bloomberg and Daniel R. Stoller Facebook Inc. must defend itself in a District of Columbia lawsuit accusing the social network of failing to safeguard users’...
Facebook Must Turn Over Records on How Execs Handle Data Privacy, Judge Rules May 31, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge ordered Facebook Inc. to give shareholders emails and other records concerning how the social media company handles...
Facebook Reported Agreeing to 20-Year Pact on Privacy Oversight by Government May 20, 2019 The social media giant Facebook Inc. is headed toward an agreement with the U.S. government over its privacy policies and...
How Much Do Facebook Users Really Care About Privacy? April 29, 2019 By Supantha Mukherjee and Diane Bartz Facebook Inc. is preparing for a record-setting fine from U.S. regulators over privacy issues, but Wall Street shrugged at the...
Privacy Practices Probe Could Cost Facebook Up to $5 Billion April 25, 2019 By David McLaughlin and Daniel R. Stoller Facebook Inc. estimated that it will cost as much as $5 billion to resolve a U.S. investigation into its privacy...