Meta Platforms was hit with privacy complaints on Thursday as eight EU consumer groups asked watchdogs to act against the Facebook owner for alleged breaches of the bloc’s privacy rules when it ...

Bowing to pressure from EU regulators, Meta announced this week it was offering non-paying users in the bloc the option of ...

Meta Platforms Inc., the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has been fined €797.72 million by the European Commission for ...

European Union regulators hit Facebook parent Meta with a fine of nearly 800 million euros on Thursday for what it calls ...

The EU fined online giant Meta almost 800 million euros on Thursday for breaching antitrust rules by giving users of its ...

The European Commission’s decision provides no evidence of competitive harm to rivals or any harm to consumers.

Meta ( NASDAQ: META) has been fined over $800M (€797.72M) in Europe for what the authorities call a breach of antitrust rules ...

Meta introduces a new ad format for European users to comply with EU regulations, offering less personalized ads that may ...

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Meta Platforms must restrict the use of personal data harvested from Facebook for targeted advertising, Europe's top court ruled on Friday, backing privacy activist Max Schrems.

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He had commented about his sexuality in public but objected to this information being used by Meta for targeted advertising online. Schrems has succeeded in the past in actions challenging EU-US ...