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Facebook-Parent Meta Settles with Australia's Privacy Watchdog Over Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit
Meta Platforms has agreed to a AUD 50 million settlement ($31.85 million or roughly Rs. 270 crore), Australia's privacy watchdog over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In June 2023, the country's federal court ordered Meta and the privacy commissioner to enter mediation.
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Google Fitbit Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Violation of EU's General Data Protection Regulation Privacy Regime
Advocacy group Noyb on Thursday filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy accusing the fitness tracking company of violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy regime.
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Judge Dismisses Cambridge Analytica Privacy Lawsuit Against Facebook Parent Meta
A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington, DC, against Facebook owner Meta Platforms was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead consumers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Meta Investors Appeal to Revive Cambridge Analytica Fraud Case
Meta Platforms investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm harvest users' personal information. The request came during oral arguments on Wednesday before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...
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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Skirting Apple's Privacy Rules to Violate User Privacy: All Details
Meta has been sued in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company built a secret workaround to skirt privacy protections put in place by Apple to snoop on users on its apps. The lawsuit’s claims are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, that said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaSc...
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Meta's Facebook Agrees To Settle 4-Year Old Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed.
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Meta Reportedly Files Motion to Settle Location Tracking Lawsuit for $37.5 Million: Details
Facebook parent Meta has reportedly filed a motion to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the company had violated the privacy of its users by collecting its location without their permission for $37.5 million (roughly Rs. 300 crore). Facebook was accused in 2018 of collecting users' data including their location, based on their IP addresses, even w...
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Facebook Parent Meta Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking
Facebook parent Meta will pay $90 million (roughly Rs. 675 crore) to settle a decade-old lawsuit concerning accusations of unlawful user tracking via the use of cookies.
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Facebook-Parent Meta Settles with Australia's Privacy Watchdog Over Cambridge Analytica Lawsuit
Meta Platforms has agreed to a AUD 50 million settlement ($31.85 million or roughly Rs. 270 crore), Australia's privacy watchdog over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In June 2023, the country's federal court ordered Meta and the privacy commissioner to enter mediation.
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Google Fitbit Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Violation of EU's General Data Protection Regulation Privacy Regime
Advocacy group Noyb on Thursday filed complaints against Google-owned Fitbit in Austria, the Netherlands and Italy accusing the fitness tracking company of violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy regime.
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Judge Dismisses Cambridge Analytica Privacy Lawsuit Against Facebook Parent Meta
A 2018 privacy lawsuit brought by Washington, DC, against Facebook owner Meta Platforms was dismissed on Thursday by a Superior Court judge, who ruled the firm did not mislead consumers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Meta Investors Appeal to Revive Cambridge Analytica Fraud Case
Meta Platforms investors formally asked a US appeals court to revive a proposed class action accusing the Facebook parent of concealing a serious privacy breach that let a political consulting firm harvest users' personal information. The request came during oral arguments on Wednesday before the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...
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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Skirting Apple's Privacy Rules to Violate User Privacy: All Details
Meta has been sued in a proposed class action lawsuit that claims the company built a secret workaround to skirt privacy protections put in place by Apple to snoop on users on its apps. The lawsuit’s claims are based on a report by data privacy researcher Felix Krause, that said Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps for Apple’s iOS inject JavaSc...
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Meta's Facebook Agrees To Settle 4-Year Old Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed.
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Meta Reportedly Files Motion to Settle Location Tracking Lawsuit for $37.5 Million: Details
Facebook parent Meta has reportedly filed a motion to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the company had violated the privacy of its users by collecting its location without their permission for $37.5 million (roughly Rs. 300 crore). Facebook was accused in 2018 of collecting users' data including their location, based on their IP addresses, even w...
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Facebook Parent Meta Agrees to Pay $90 Million to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking
Facebook parent Meta will pay $90 million (roughly Rs. 675 crore) to settle a decade-old lawsuit concerning accusations of unlawful user tracking via the use of cookies.
