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Australia sues Facebook over its use of Onavo to snoop

Yet additional bother brewing for Facebook: Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to secret agent on consumers for business purposes. The ACCC’s case accuses Facebook of false, misleading or deceptive behavior …
Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia’s 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. The ACCC’s case accuses Facebook of false, misleading or deceptive conduct …

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  3. "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)
  4. "Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms". (August 21, 2020)
  5. "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)
  6. "Irelands data protection watchdog, the DPC, has sent Facebook a preliminary order to suspend data transfers from the EU to the US, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter and including a confirmation from Facebooks VP of global affairs, Nick Clegg". (September 9, 2020)
  7. "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)
  8. "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)
  9. "Facebook is firing up its lawyers to try to block EU regulators from forcing it to suspend transatlantic data transfers in the wake of a landmark ruling by Europes top court this summer". (September 11, 2020)
  10. "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)
  11. "A month after Europes top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 websites with regional operators which its identified as still sending data to the US via Googl". (August 18, 2020)
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