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Europe’s sweeping privacy law GDPR goes into effect May 25th, and Facebook is being forced to push users through new agreements to terms of service changes required ...

General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is coming. Here's what it means, how it'll impact individuals and businesses. Read now Regulators in Ireland have proposed up to $42 million in fines for ...

A lawsuit, filed by NOYB, a non-profit digital rights organization led by privacy activist Max Schrems, explains how two red “pending” notification dots appear on ...

Facebook's parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law. The €265 million (~$275 million) fine was announced today by the Irish Data Protection ...

Twenty percent of all users on Facebook will fall under the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation law (GDPR) in May. Facebook must ask all European users for permission to store or share their ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ahead of the GDPR, which is set to come into effect in May Ahead of the GDPR, which is set to come into effect in ...

At the height of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did not immediately commit to applying the European Union's General Data Protection Rules (GDPR) to the social ...

On Friday, a massive breach opened up a new front in the war on Facebook. According the the company, more than 50 million accounts were taken over by a kind of login worm, which used a series of ...

During his testimony in front of the House Energy & Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that Facebook would adopt the European Union's General Data Protection Rules ...

Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in the European Union is inching toward making its first decision on a complaint against Facebook itself. And it looks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. When asked why the company waited three months to inform users about the ...