Meta Loses Bid to Appeal UK Class Action Over Data, Could be Liable for up to $3.2B November 1, 2024 By Upmanyu Trivedi Meta Platforms Inc. failed in a bid to challenge a class action suit in the UK that alleged Facebook abused...
Meta Faces $3.6M Fine on Brazil Following Suit Over Bogus Havan Ads August 29, 2024 By Bernardo Barbosa Meta Platforms faces a fine of up to $3.62 million after losing a lawsuit by Brazilian department store chain Havan...
Meta to Pay $1.4B to Settle Texas Facial Recognition Data Lawsuit July 31, 2024 By Mike Scarcella and Jody Godoy Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of...
Meta Must Face Australian Billionaire Forrest’s U.S. Lawsuit Over Scam Facebook Crypto Ads June 19, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge rejected Meta Platforms’ bid to dismiss a lawsuit by billionaire Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest over scam...
Judge Sanctions Facebook, Lawyers for Bad-Faith Discovery Fight February 14, 2023 A federal judge in San Francisco ordered Facebook Inc. to pay $925,078.51 in sanctions for the “egregious conduct” of its...
Facebook Job Ads Illegally Discriminate, Female Truckers Say December 2, 2022 By Josh Eidelson Meta Platforms Inc. “routinely discriminates” in steering job ads to specific age and gender groups on its Facebook platform, a...
Meta Reaches $37.5M Settlement of Facebook Location Tracking Lawsuit August 23, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel Meta Platforms Inc. reached a $37.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the parent of Facebook of violating users’ privacy...
Meta Settles Lawsuit over Discrimination in Housing Advertising Tool June 22, 2022 NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) – The United States and Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. have settled a lawsuit over...
DC Sues Zuckerberg Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Breach May 25, 2022 By Marcy Gordon WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia on Monday sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable...
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests March 31, 2022 By William Turton Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law...