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Fb pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy web content material regulations

Fb founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a safety convention in Germany over the weekend the place he spoke about the type of law he’d like implemented to his platform forward of a slate of deliberate conferences with virtual heavyweights on the Ecu Fee. …
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend where he spoke about the kind of regulation he’d like applied to his platform ahead of a slate of planned meetings with digital heavyweights at the European Commission. …

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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Natasha Lomas has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
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  2. "A Facebook -funded body that the tech giant set up to distance itself from tricky and potentially reputation-damaging content moderation decisions has announced the first bundle of cases it will consider". (December 1, 2020)
  3. "Last months ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), ripping up the EU-US Privacy Shield and sewing doubt over alternative mechanisms, has put a cat among the pigeons of international data transfers". (August 26, 2020)
  4. "The European Union may investigate Facebooks $1BN acquisition of customer service platform Kustomer after concerns were referred to it under EU merger rules". (April 6, 2021)
  5. "Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms". (August 21, 2020)
  6. "Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australias Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes". (December 16, 2020)
  7. "Facebooks lead data supervisor in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether the tech giant violated data protection rules vis-a-vis the leak of data reported earlier this month". (April 14, 2021)
  8. "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)
  9. "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)
  10. "Facebooks head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order it to suspend data transfers to the US following a landmark Court of Justice ruling in July that has cemented the schism between US surveillance laws and EU privacy rights". (September 23, 2020)
  11. "The UKs competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebooks purchase of Giphy has a realistic prospect of substantially lessening competition by March 25, it said today, as it continues to scrutinize the acquisition". (January 28, 2021)
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