Fancy overseeing whether Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? The Irish government has posted job ads for two additional commissioners to Fancy overseeing whether much of Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? Job ads have been posted for two additional commissioners to lead Ireland's Data Protection Commission...| TechCrunch
Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban Norway's data protection authority imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in July by Norway's data protection authority.| TechCrunch
Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway -- unless it obtains users' consent to the processing.| TechCrunch
Meta's planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn't yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare...| TechCrunch
A long-anticipated judgement today by the Court of Justice of the European Union looks to have comprehensively crushed Meta's ability to deny European users a free choice over its tracking and profiling.| TechCrunch
The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has announced Meta will roll out a new account center incoming that will see it provide users of its social networking services with a greater degree of choice over whether they allow it to combine data on their activity across its services or not.| TechCrunch
Norway's data protection authority has asked a European Union regulator to take a binding decision on whether its emergency sanction on Facebook and Norway's data protection authority has asked an EU regulator to take a binding decision on whether its emergency ban on Facebook and Instagram tracking and profiling users for ad targeting without consent should be made permanent and applied across the EU single market.| TechCrunch
Meta is bowing to legal inevitability in the European Union: It's just announced it will finally comply with regional privacy regulations by giving users a free choice to deny its behavioral advertising.| TechCrunch