Facebook sues developers for data privacy breaches
Facebook is attempting to show it has learned the lessons from the Cambridge Analytica scandal by taking legal action against…
Top UK data firms still under investigation, 2 years on
The Information Commissioner’s Office investigation into Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections might be done and dusted but the regulator has…
Narcissist? Moi? Never. Brits are gagging for Instagram
To many it is the ultimate in narcissism, but Instagram has still proved the most popular social media platform among…
Instagram rocked by action over ‘illegal’ biometic data
Instagram might have escaped the data protection scandals of its Facebook parent so far but that looks all set to…
Facebook spend cut by a third even before boycott bites
Those who claimed the social media advertising boycott would make little difference might have to eat their own words after…
CMA demands new laws to rein in Facebook and Google
The competition watchdog is calling on the Government to introduce tough new laws to break the stranglehold Google and Facebook…
Facebook ad boycott targets EU as top US brands join
The Facebook advertising boycott campaign, which has already seen 160 companies – including major brands including Unilever, Levi Strauss, Starbucks,…
Germans stomp on Facebook over ‘illicit’ data sharing
The German high court has upheld an order for Facebook to stop the “illicit” practice of collecting and using customers’…
Facebook catches coronavirus as ad revenues plummet
Covid-19 has done what no regulator, privacy group or data protection scandal has managed so far by whacking Facebook’s ad…
Google faces probe over ‘unlawful data free-for-all’
Privacy start-up Brave, a thorn in the side of tech giants since GDPR came into force, has filed a formal…