… One passage in the report may interest regulators around the world, as it sees eSafety observe expected “short-term increases in downloads of some emerging apps, but we have not seen any significant migration to non-compliant platforms or other online services that are not required to comply with t…
… The broader antitrust investigation is still ongoing, with no date set for a legal conclusion. …
… Not to mention regulation, as regulators could use the case as an example to enforce specific design restrictions on social platforms to mitigate negative user impact. …
… Petition organizers have called on Meta to respect their legal right “to discuss, organize, and advocate for better working conditions.” So far, organizers have declined to comment on the number of signatories and whether they may pursue other legal or regulatory actions to push back on the trackin… …
… The concerns have already reached regulators in India, where cyber fraud schemes frequently exploit messaging platforms to impersonate police, banks, and government officials. …
… In November 2021, the company ended Facebook's photo-tagging system and said it would delete the face recognition templates of more than a billion users, framing the decision as “a company-wide move away from this kind of broad identification.” Meta said at the time that it needed to “weigh the pos… …
… The initial iteration of the suit was “legally insufficient,” per the judge’s memo Opens in a new window , and had “failed to plead enough facts” to support its claim that Facebook had made itself a monopoly in the market for social media known legally as Personal Social Networking, or PSN . …
… The company has also renewed its call for the legal responsibility for age verification to be passed to app stores rather than individual developers. …
… Multiple legal and advertising experts I spoke to said the undisclosed relationships don’t just run afoul of major platforms’ advertising policies; in multiple jurisdictions, they probably break the law. …
… Meta points to this potential issue in its argument against Torrez’s proposed remedies. “Regardless of where the accuracy threshold is set, Meta would never be able to prove that the system met that standard, because doing the calculation would require that Meta detect 100% of CSAM to use as the de… …