Consumers have long been concerned about privacy issues with Facebook, with controversies dating back as far as 2006, when ...

Facebook‘s agreement to pay $650 million to settle class-action litigation alleging it violated users’ privacy via its photo-tagging feature — one of the biggest ever in a privacy lawsuit ...

A group of Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit Monday that alleges the social-networking site is violating California consumer privacy laws. The lawsuit, which was filed in California's Orange ...

The lawsuits claim Meta is violating federal and state privacy laws and seek to put a stop to this tracking. Amazon sues Facebook admins:Amazon sues admins of 10K Facebook groups over ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco federal judge rejected Facebook's request to toss a lawsuit alleging its photo-tagging feature that uses facial recognition technology invades users' privacy.

The four-year-old lawsuit alleged that Facebook violated consumer privacy laws by sharing personal data of users with third parties such as the now-defunct British political consultancy Cambridge ...

A federal judge on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021 approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without permission ...

Facebook users can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy lawsuit settlement if they had accounts from May 2007 to December 2022. Facebook's parent company, Meta, is doling out the ...

It is not the first lawsuit of its kind (there are suits in Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana), and Facebook is not the only large company to be accused of violating visitors' privacy. But the issue ...

In a 2018 lawsuit, Facebook was accused of improperly sharing ... nilly and use my information without my consent, and these are privacy violations and so I want what's coming to me.

DeMorgen notes it is the first time a European DPA has taken Facebook to court for failing to respect privacy laws, although a European class action privacy lawsuit against Facebook, led by ...

Mia Sato is platforms and communities reporter with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Snapchat users in Illinois who used ...