Brandon Vigliarolo reports: A legal saga between Meta, Ireland and the European Union has reached a conclusion – at least for now – that forces the social media giant to remove data consent requirements from its terms of service in favor of explicit consent, and subjects it to a few hundred million more euros in…
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Ninth Circuit revives children’s suit against Google over surreptitious tracking
Edvard Pettersson reports: Google must face a purported class-action lawsuit by children who claimed they were tracked and profiled for targeted ads without their parents’ consent while watching YouTube videos. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a judge’s dismissal of the children’s claims brought under various state laws because, the appellate panel said, the…
No injunction against Meta over medical info
From Courthouse News: A federal judge in California declined to issue a preliminary injunction that would have stopped Meta from using its “Meta Pixel” web tracker to collect identifying medical information about Facebook users. Though the users raise “what is potentially a serious problem,” the social media platform’s internal systems already address the management of…
Meta to pay record $725 million to settle class action over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Edvard Pettersson reports: Meta Platforms, the parent of Facebook, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle claims by its users that the social-media behemoth illegally gave third parties, including political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, access to their private information. The proposed settlement is the largest recovery ever achieved in a data-privacy class action, and it is…