Facebook and Instagram users in the EU can opt out of its behavioral advertising via a free tool provided by privacy rights not-for-profit, noyb.

New European Union rules planned for later this year will put the EU on the leading edge of privacy laws. The moves could have a profound effect on companies like Facebook.

Facebook warns EU hate speech rules would stifle innovation, free expression EU may hold internet companies responsible for hate speech and other illegal speech published on their platforms ...

Facebook, Instagram in EU crosshairs for election disinformation. By Foo Yun Chee. April 30, 2024 11:49 AM UTC Updated April 30, 2024 Item 1 of 2 EU flag and Meta logo are seen ...

Facebook faces trouble in Europe—and Meta wants you to know about it. ... EU officials will spend months scrutinizing the specifics to see if they fall in line with court orders.

For tech companies like Facebook, Europe — whose more than 450 million people represent roughly a quarter, or $20 billion, of the social network’s yearly profits — is at the vanguard of ...

For example, when Meta started giving EU users an ad-free subscription option for Facebook and Instagram, this was supposed to serve as a "less personalized but equivalent alternative" to opting ...

Google isn't the only tech giant facing an investigation from European Union antitrust regulators over data collection and monetization. The European Commission has Facebook in its sights too.

If Facebook is found to have violated the EU's data rules, it could face a monetary fine of up to 4% of its $86 billion global revenue. In a statement, ...

Facebook is taking steps to comply with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European Union law that regulates data protection and privacy for individuals in the EU.

On Monday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Meta, Facebook’s parent company, more than a billion dollars for breaching the European Union’s data-privacy rules, and ordered the social network ...

Facebook plans to hire up to 10,000 workers in Europe to build a “metaverse” that will combine virtual and augmented reality technologies in a new online realm. The US tech giant announced the ...