Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Instagram.
The Accounts Center will hold all relative user settings across all Meta platforms. This week Facebook parent Meta announced that it’s centralizing various user settings across its apps, including Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. Various account settings will be moved to Meta’s 'Accounts C... Read more
1 year ago
The Irish data protection authority fined Meta with €405 million for GDPR violations on Instagram. The fine is the result of an investigation launched by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in 2020. According to the regulator, Instagram breached the privacy of children. Meta alleged... Read more
2 years ago
Facebook and Instagram are staying online for the foreseeable future. The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) wants to tighten the reins on Meta, but not every member state supports its case. Ireland's DPA proposed a ban on intercontinental data transfers from Meta in July, threatening to remo... Read more
2 years ago
The Irish privacy authority wants to ban data transfers between Meta and the United States. The bill can be implemented in a few months. There's a chance that Instagram and Facebook will no longer be available to European users. The Irish privacy authority shared the proposal in a letter to all ... Read more
2 years ago
In an interview, Ireland's data privacy authority indicated that EU-US data transfers by Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram might be blocked as soon as May. Still, the decision would not immediately affect other large tech companies. Due to fears that U.S. government monitoring may not respect E.... Read more
2 years ago
Two ministers from Germany and France say that Meta's withdrawal from the European market will suit them just fine. The threat by Meta Platforms to quit Europe because of disputes over privacy rules met with aplomb by two top German and French politicians, according to a report in Bloomberg. ... Read more
2 years ago
Several bodies of the US administration have started a lawsuit against Facebook. They feel that the company is thwarting competitors by simply buying them up when they grow too big. The prosecutors consist of the Federal Trade Commission and 46 US states. They complain about the 'buy or bury' st... Read more
3 years ago
Politico recently reported that the long-awaited antitrust lawsuit from the United States Federal Trade Commission against Facebook could be here before the end of this November. The report, which came out on Friday, cites three people familiar with the matter and says that the FTC is considering h... Read more
3 years ago
A lawsuit, targeting the photo-sharing app Instagram, claims that Facebook has been illegally harvesting biometrics data of the app’s users. Last month, Facebook offered to pay $650 million to settle a lawsuit where the accusation was about illegal biometric data harvesting. In the previous la... Read more
4 years ago
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Facebook acquisitions as part of a competition investigation. Meanwhile, the social medium has decided to make it clearer that it owns Instagram and WhatsApp, by adding its name. The FTC wants to know whether the takeovers of Facebook were part ... Read more
5 years ago
