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Facebooks dodgy defaults face extra scrutiny in Europe

Italy’s Festival and Markets Authority has introduced complaints in opposition to Fb for failing to totally tell customers in regards to the business makes use of it makes in their information. On the similar time, a German courtroom has as of late upheld a shopper crew’s proper to problem the tech large over information and pr…
Italy’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched proceedings against Facebook for failing to fully inform users about the commercial uses it makes of their data. At the same time, a German court has today upheld a consumer group’s right to challenge the tech giant over data and pr…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  1. "Facebooks self-regulatory Oversight Board (FOB) has delivered its first batch of decisions on contested content moderation decisions almost two months after picking its first cases". (January 28, 2021)
  2. "Austrias Supreme Court has dismissed Facebooks appeal in a long running speech takedown case ruling it must remove references to defamatory comments made about a local politician worldwide for as long as the injunction lasts". (November 12, 2020)
  3. "Following the landmark CJEU Schrems II ruling in July, which invalidated the four-year-old EU-US Privacy Shield, European data protection regulators have today published 38-pages of guidancefor businesses stuck trying to navigate the uncertainty around how to (legally) transfer perso". (November 11, 2020)
  4. "Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary)". (December 8, 2020)
  5. "A German court thats considering Facebooks appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the countrys competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europes top court". (March 24, 2021)
  6. "A flagship framework for gathering Internet users consent for targeting with behavioral ads which is designed by ad industry body, the IAB Europe fails to meet the required legal standards of data protection, according to findings by its EU data supervisor". (October 16, 2020)
  7. "Labor activists challenging Uber over what they allege are robo-firings of drivers in Europe have trumpeted winning a default judgement in the Netherlands where the Court of Amsterdam ordered the ride-hailing giant to reinstate six drivers who the litigants claim were unfairly". (April 14, 2021)
  8. "Some more internal emails Facebook really doesnt want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may ". (February 18, 2021)
  9. "Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.s competition watchdog". (April 1, 2021)
  10. "Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that you dont". (January 26, 2021)
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