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Irish privacy regulator fines Facebook 265 million euros, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Facebook logo Ireland’s data privacy regulator imposed a 265 million euro ($277 million) fine on social media giant Facebook on Monday, bringing the total it has fined parent group Meta to almost 1 billion euros. The penalty resulted from an investigation, started last year, into the discovery of a collated set of personal data that had been scraped from Facebook between May 2018 and September 2019, and made available online. Facebook was also ordered to make a range of corrective measures. Meta said it had cooperated fully […]

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Ireland fines Facebook for EU privacy law breaches, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Representative image/iStock Ireland on Tuesday imposed a fine on Facebook parent company Meta for breaching EU data privacy laws, in the latest action in Europe against the business practices of US tech titans. The fine against the social media giant, which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, amounted to a total of 17 million euros ($18.7 million) following an inquiry into 12 data breaches, said the Data Protection Commission (DPC). EU member Ireland, which hosts the regional headquarters of a number of leading tech firms including Apple, Google […]

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France fines Google, Facebook millions over tracking consent, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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France hits Google, Facebook with huge fines over ‘cookies’ French regulators on Thursday fined Google and Facebook a total of more than 200 million euros ($226 million) for not making it as easy for people to opt out of online tracking as it is for them to accept it. The CNIL data privacy watchdog said its investigations found that while the U.S. online giants gave French users a single button to immediately accept cookies, there wasn’t an equally simple way for them to decline because “several clicks […]

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Facebook pays fines to Russia over banned content, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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Picture used for representational purpose Facebook has paid 17 million roubles ($229,643) in fines owed in Russia for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, but with the threat of a potentially larger fine looming. Facebook parent Meta, along with Alphabet’s Google, faces a court case next week for suspected repeated violations of Russian legislation on content and could be fined a percentage of its annual revenue in Russia. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment on […]

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UK fines Facebook over Giphy takeover breach, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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This image is for representational purpose only. Britain’s competition watchdog said on Wednesday, it had fined social network giant, Facebook over £50 million for the “deliberate” failure to supply information linked to its takeover of animated graphics startup, Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority said the fine totaling £50.5 million ($69.5 million, 60 million euros) was imposed for “consciously refusing to report all the required information” concerning the purchase last year. “We warned Facebook that its refusal to provide us with important information was a breach of […]

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Russia fines Telegram, Facebook over banned content, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

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It was the second time both companies have been fined in recent weeks. Russian authorities have ordered Facebook and the messaging app Telegram to pay steep fines for failing to remove banned content, a move that could be part of growing government efforts to tighten control over social media platforms amid political dissent. A Moscow court on Thursday fined Facebook a total of 17 million rubles (roughly $ 2,36,000) and Telegram 10 million rubles ($ 1,39,000). It wasn’t immediately clear what type of content the platforms failed […]

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