The Federal Trade Commission has issued a proposed order to ban the online counselling service BetterHelp, Inc. The Commission aims at preventing the company from revealing consumers’ sensitive data to Facebook and others for targeted advertising. BetterHelp has been also required to pay $7.8 million for deceiving consumers by promising the protection of their sensitive...
TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are ready to face the strict provisions of the Digital Services Act (DSA) pushing them to reveal the number of Europeans using their services and to adhere to sweeping requirements starting by the summer of 2023 such as removing illegal content, combating disinformation and enhance minors protection. In case of...
According to the claim, some users received targeted ads via Facebook and Instagram while logged in to personal accounts. The ads were including sensitive data such as specific sexually transmitted diseases. The company has settled the case by agreeing with the FTC to a $1.5 million fine. Read more here
Philippe Dufresne, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, has issued a statement to celebrate the Canada Data Privacy Week with the concrete example of the effectiveness of its office operations. The Commissioner detailed that Home Depot was transferring data traffic information of its customers to Meta, without the consent of the customers. The Commissioner had investigated...
Meta Inc. lost the appeal against a decision of the San Marino DPA, which fined the social media for the illicit diffusion of personal data of about 12,700 citizens of San Marino via the social media Facebook. The hack of data happened in 2019, when personal data of about 533m individuals were stolen and published...
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued two binding dispute resolution decisions of 5 December 2022, as a consequence of which the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA) has adopted on 4 January 2023 its decisions regarding Facebook and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, ‘Meta IE’). These decisions are the result of complaint-based inquiries into...
The CNBC reports that Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed the social media giant gave third parties access to user data without their consent. Continue reading the CNBC article here.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta due to a data breach affecting millions of Facebook users’ personal data. Read more
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