Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit concerning its alleged misappropriation of user data, the New York Post reported, citing lawyers representing both sides.
The suit accused Google of "stalking" the users of its Chrome internet browser even while they were...
The German Federal Office of Justice (BfJ) announced on Tuesday that it has started fine proceedings against Twitter Inc. over its failure to address user complaints adequately.
The office said in a written statement it found that "numerous content" considered illegal in Germany was "not deleted or...
Brazil’s Justice Ministry stated on Monday that the United States technology company Facebook has to pay a 6.6 million real (approx. $1.6 million) fine for exposing user data. The ministry added it fined Facebook over users' data misuse in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Facebook-Cambridge...
Twitter said in a statement that it used email addresses and phone numbers of its users to improve targeting for advertisers by matching advertisers' lists to Twitter users. The social media network noted that it doesn't know how many users were affected, but apologized for the breach.
The issue...
Facebook announced on Friday that it suspended "tens of thousands" of apps in efforts that first started in March 2018 as an answer to the Cambridge Analytica incident. The company said its App Developer Investigation found that the questionable apps were created by 400 different...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google will settle an investigation by the United States Federal Trade Commission into the children's privacy breach allegedly involving its video platform YouTube, the Financial Times reported citing sources familiar with the matter.
The settlement will potentially be a multi-million-dollar...
Three persons in the five-member Federal Trade Commission voted for the proposed settlement with Facebook Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, quoting sources with knowledge of the matter. The two officials from the Democratic Party were said to be against the deal ending the process...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google on Thursday acknowledged that one of its Dutch language reviewing partners, who are tasked with improving its speech technology, leaked around 1,000 of confidential audio data to a Belgian news site. The company said that the Privacy Response teams are conducting...
The Information Commissioner’s Office of the United Kingdom ruled electronic marketing laws were breached in email campaigns by two entities in the runup to the Brexit referendum three years ago. In a statement issued on Friday, ICO said it fined the Leave.EU initiative and Eldon Insurance, trading...
In a letter addressed to senators, Google said that the company allows other entities to scan and share data from Gmail accounts, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
"Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using...
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