In March 2020, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) sued Facebook, for significant and persistent infringements of the rule on privacy involving the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Every violation of the Privacy Act is subject to a theoretical cumulative liability of $1.7 million...
Facebook sued Power.com for“scraping” data off its site and storing the user names and passwords of users who tried to access their Facebook accounts through Power.com, in violation of Facebook’s terms of service. At issue is“data portability(数据可携带性)”, the ability for users to...
Investors and consumers transacting in Libra may be exposed to serious privacy and national security concerns, cyber security risks, and trading risks. Those using Facebook’s digital wallet – storing potentially trillions of dollars without depository insurance– also may become unique targets for hac...
Separately, the FTC sued Facebook in December for allegedly violating antitrust law. That complaint was dismissed and the agency has an Aug. 19 deadline to refile it. In the letter, the lawmakers also asked how the NYU researchers' work hurt people's privacy. They re...
"As has already happened, Facebook could perfectly be, with strict adherence to the laws, sued for these practices against Cuba." Neither the U.S. State Department nor Facebook, which recently changed its company name to Meta, immediately responded to a Reuters request for...
Trump sued Meta and its CEO in 2021 for "censoring" his social media account. 1 month ago Here's why you might be automatically following Trump on Instagram, Facebook In the days since Donald Trump assumed office, many people online have begun expressing alarm to find they were unwittingly ...
December 2019-Facebook sued ILikeAd and two Chinese nationalsfor using Facebook ads to trick users into downloading malware. "Through these lawsuits, we will continue sending a message to people trying to abuse our services that Facebook is serious about enforcing our policies, including requiring...
Make Your Voice Heard:Facebook is being sued for collecting Android text and phone logs, so Will You Delete Facebook? Part 1. Reading the old Facebook Messenger Messages Part 2. How to read old Facebook Messenger messages on the website faster? How to read old Facebook messages without ...
“Biometrics is one of the two primary battlegrounds, along with geolocation, that will define our privacy rights for the next generation,” Jay Edelson, a Chicago-based lawyer representing consumers who sued, said in the statement. Facebook has for years encouraged users to tag people in photo...
The article reports on the litigation of 18 technology firms over application privacy in the U.S. These include Apple Inc., Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. It mentions that the application of the said companies sneakily harvest, upload and illegally steal the address book data of mobile phone...