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...
Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking February 15, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users’ internet activity even...
Mother Sues Meta, Snap Over Social Media ‘Addicted’ Daughter’s Suicide January 21, 2022 By Robert Burnson Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc. are to blame for the suicide of an 11-year-old girl who was addicted to...
Viewpoint: Keeping the Human Element in AI Claims Management November 30, 2021 By Tom Warden Without a doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) is a valuable driver of innovation in today’s insurance industry. Unfortunately, the predominant attitude...
Iran-Backed Hackers Accused of Targeting Critical US Sectors November 18, 2021 By Eric Tucker, Alan Suderman and Frank Bajak WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers linked to the Iranian government have been targeting a “broad range of victims” inside the United...
Zuckerberg’s Early Notes on Privacy Now Haunt Facebook in Suit October 7, 2021 By Peter Blumberg If Mark Zuckerberg’s “juvenile jottings” on privacy from 15 years ago still exist, they’re about to be pored over by...
Judge Approves $650 Million Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Settlement March 1, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for...
Facebook Appoints its First Chief Compliance Officer Amid Ongoing Scrutiny January 29, 2021 By Kanishka Singh ViacomCBS Inc’s top compliance official, Henry Moniz, is moving to Facebook Inc as the social media platform’s first chief compliance...
Facebook Worries Smaller Rivals With Openness on Liability December 28, 2020 By Todd Shields and Ben Brody Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online,...
Google and Others Back Facebook Lawsuit Over Surveillance Tool December 22, 2020 By Robert Burnson Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other tech giants asked for permission to join Facebook Inc.’s legal fight against an Israeli...