Meta has begun its rollout of automatic encryption of all Facebook and Messenger chats, the company has announced. Messages and calls protected by end-to-end-encryption (E2EE), which has been an option since 2016, can be read only by the sender and recipient. Under the changes, Meta will no longer have access to the contents of what […]
The lawyer representing 184 former Facebook content moderators based in Kenya who sued the site’s parent company Meta over working conditions and pay has told a judge that Meta has not been sincere in trying to reach an out-of-court settlement as agreed in the last court session. Mercy Mutemi said the talks had collapsed and […]
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has kicked off the tech giant’s Connect developer conference in California with a focus on virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The company behind Facebook, which renamed itself Meta two years ago, unveiled the next version of its virtual reality headset, the Quest 3. It will cost 499 US dollars […]
Meta has promised to not use the data from adverts placed by other businesses on the Facebook platform in order to compete against them after the competition watchdog flagged concerns. Meta told the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) it would remedy a situation which would allow it to develop and improve its own products […]
Facebook owner Meta is to make approximately 490 full-time employees redundant across its Irish operations. The roles are being cut from a number of teams including finance, sales, marketing, analytics, operations and engineering. Employees at Meta Ireland were notified on Wednesday they were potentially impacted by a global restructuring which was announced by CEO Mark […]
Shutterstock has said it is buying Giphy from Meta Platforms for 53 million dollars (£46 million), the final step to unwind a deal blocked by British regulators over competition concerns. The stock image service said it is paying cash for the GIF-sharing platform, which has 1.7 billion daily users and partners including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, […]
Facebook owner Meta has been fined 1.2 billion euro (£1 billion) and was ordered to stop transferring user data from European users to its US servers. The record fine was levied by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a three-year probe into the social media giant. The DPC said that Meta had breached part of […]
Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company Meta Ireland 390 million euro as a row erupted over whether further investigation of the use of people’s data is warranted. Meta Ireland was fined 210 million euro for breaches of EU data privacy rules relating to Facebook, and 180 million euro for breaches on Instagram. Meta […]
Facebook’s dating platform is to introduce age verification tools to confirm that only adults are accessing the over-18 version of the app. Parent company Meta is to use age assurance technology from UK firm Yoti on Facebook Dating, which will ask users to upload an ID document or use Yoti’s facial age estimation technology, which […]
Tech giant Meta has been fined 265 million euro by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for breaching EU data privacy laws. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued the sanction against the Facebook parent company for failing to protect millions of Facebook users’ personal data, such as telephone numbers and email addresses, from being “scraped” and published […]
