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Fb Relationship release blocked in Europe after it fails to turn privateness workings

Fb has been left red-faced after being pressured to name off the release date of its courting carrier in Europe as it failed to present its lead EU information regulator sufficient complex caution — together with failing to show it had carried out a legally required review of privateness dangers. Overdue…
Facebook has been left red-faced after being forced to call off the launch date of its dating service in Europe because it failed to give its lead EU data regulator enough advanced warning — including failing to demonstrate it had performed a legally required assessment of privacy risks. Late…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  2. "The European Commission must block the Google -Fitbit merger as a matter of democratic imperative, prominent academic and author Shoshana Zuboff has warned". (December 11, 2020)
  3. "The question of how policymakers should respond to the power of big tech didnt get a great deal of airtime at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, despite a number of investigations now underway in the United States (hi, Google)". (September 22, 2020)
  4. "The European Unions lead data protection supervisor has recommended that a ban on targeted advertising based on tracking Internet users digital activity be included in a major reform of digital services rules which aims to increase operators accountability, among other key goal". (February 10, 2021)
  5. "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)
  6. "Europe has greenlit Googles $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it gobble a major cache of health and wellness data following months of regulatory scrutiny of the deal". (December 17, 2020)
  7. "Facebooks dating bolt-on to its eponymous social networking service has finally launched in Europe, more than nine months after an earlier launch plan was derailed at the last minute over privacy concerns". (October 22, 2020)
  8. "Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a T&Cs change, appear to also be generating some uplift for end-to-end encrypted email providers". (January 14, 2021)
  9. "The FTC has reached a settlement with Flo, a period and fertility tracking app with 100 million+ users, over allegations it shared users health data with third-party app analytics and marketing services like Facebook despite promising to keep users sensitive health data private". (January 13, 2021)
  10. "European lawmakers are considering new rules for Internet giants that could include forcing them to share data with smaller rivals and/or put narrow limits on how they can use data in a bid to level the digital playing field". (September 30, 2020)
  11. "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)
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