The European Commission has imposed hefty fines totaling €700 million on tech giants Apple and Meta for breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), marking the first penalties issued under the new legislation aimed at ensuring fairer digital marketplaces. Apple received the larger penalty of €500 million for failing to allow alternative app stores on … Read more
The social networking giant is expected to announce details of its most recent round of layoffs, raising concerns that more jobs may be lost at Meta’s Irish unit. The parent company of Facebook is anticipated to notify employees of the layoffs later today. The company’s staff would be reduced by about 10,000 individuals, according to … Read more
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook parent firm Meta €1.2 billion for violations involving the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US. It surpasses the previous record fine of €746 million, which was levied on Amazon in 2021, to become the highest EU privacy fine ever. As part of … Read more
Following a data breach involving hundreds of millions of users’ personal details, Facebook parent company Meta has been assessed a €265 million fine by the Irish Data Protection Commission. The DPC opened an investigation after hundreds of millions of Facebook users’ names, phone numbers, and email addresses were made public in an online hacking forum … Read more
The company that runs Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta, is getting ready to massively reduce its workforce, making it the third major tech company in recent weeks to do so after Twitter and Stripe. Numerous thousands of employees are anticipated to be impacted by the cuts, according to a Sunday Wall Street Journal report. As … Read more
Many users have reconnected to WhatsApp after a service outage knocked the popular messaging programme down for around two hours on Tuesday morning. The Meta-owned site has not officially verified the reason for the problem, but early on Tuesday, it informed users that it was trying to resolve it. While app users all across the … Read more
WhatsApp will challenge an order by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) where the commission ordered to pay a fine of €225 million for data breach. The European arm of WhatsApp secured permission from a High Court to challenge the order by DPC in last August. DPC had accused WhatsApp of breaching European Union’s General Data … Read more