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Regulator fines WhatsApp €5.5 million for GDPR violation

Ireland's data protection authority slapped WhatsApp with a €5.5 million fine. The Meta subsidiary is accus...

Geert van der Klugt January 19, 2023

Facebook parent Meta is facing a legal challenge from digital rights group Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) over ...

Kimanthi Sammy January 11, 2023

Ireland's data protection authority fined Meta €390 million for illegal data processing in personalized ads...

Geert van der Klugt January 4, 2023

More tech jobs were lost last year than at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wall Street Journal re...

Joseph Brunoli January 4, 2023

Meta has acquired Luxexcel, a Belgian-Dutch firm that specializes in 3D printing lenses for glasses. The tech...

Geert van der Klugt January 2, 2023

Meta has announced that it will no longer pursue its $342 million Denmark datacenter expansion contract. T...

Ian Haynes December 19, 2022

The European Commission alleges that Meta is abusing Facebook's popularity to gain customers for Facebook Mar...

Geert van der Klugt December 19, 2022

According to a confidential EU privacy watchdog ruling, Meta will only be allowed to run user adver...

Kimanthi Sammy December 7, 2022

Meta threatened to stop publishing news on its social media platforms in the face of a controversial media bi...

Geert van der Klugt December 6, 2022

Meta just released PyTorch 2.0, the latest version of its open-source machine learning framework. The rele...

Kimanthi Sammy December 5, 2022