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Facebook accuses Apple of anticompetitive behavior over privacy changes

Facebook accuses Apple of anticompetitive behavior over privacy changes

  • Apple is behaving anticompetitively by using their control of the App Store to benefit their bottom line at the expense of creators and small businesses. Full stop.
  • It said in a blog post that Apple's own personalized ad platform would be exempt from the new prompt requirement the iPhone maker is planning to impose on other companies.
Published 17 Dec, 2020 12:59am
Exclusive-Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
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Exclusive-Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules

  • Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of their current relationship with Facebook’s Irish unit and out of reach of Europe’s privacy laws.
  • Facebook is making the change partly because the EU privacy regime is among the world’s strictest, according to people familiar with the company. The EU rules give granular control to users over data about them.
Updated 16 Dec, 2020 02:53pm
Facebook, Twitter face British fines if fail on harmful content
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Facebook, Twitter face British fines if fail on harmful content

  • Facebook, Twitter and Chinese-owned TikTok face fines of up to 10% of turnover if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content under laws proposed by Britain on Tuesday.
  • Tech platforms will also need to do more to protect children from being exposed to grooming, bullying and pornography, the government said, to ensure the safety of children online.
Published 15 Dec, 2020 08:02pm
Facebook has not banned a militant group in India as it fears for business interests, staff safety
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Facebook has not banned a militant group in India as it fears for business interests, staff safety

  • Social media firm’s security workforce stated in its report that Bajrang Dal supports violence against minorities, especially Muslims across India and sure certified as a “harmful group” that ought to be banned from the platform
  • Bajrang Dal has been deemed a militant spiritual group by the US Central Intelligence Company and is convicted of hate crimes and religiously motivated killings
Updated 14 Dec, 2020 12:12pm
New EU rules to define gatekeepers by users, areas of business
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New EU rules to define gatekeepers by users, areas of business

  • The criteria defining online gatekeepers which control access to people, services and information are expected to hit Alphabet unit Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon.
  • "It is going to be a fairly short list of gatekeepers," one of the people said, adding that numerical criteria will be used.
Published 11 Dec, 2020 12:45am
An antitrust lawsuit in US calls for the breakup of Facebook
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An antitrust lawsuit in US calls for the breakup of Facebook

  • FTC alleges that the social network used monopoly power with the intention of suppressing and deterring serious competitive threats
  • Facebook says the US government wants a do-over with no regard for the impact that precedent would have on the broader business community
Published 10 Dec, 2020 11:44am
Twitter, Facebook face labeling test on Trump's election posts
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Twitter, Facebook face labeling test on Trump's election posts

  • The two companies have been under fierce scrutiny over how they police rapidly spreading false information and election-related abuses of their platforms.
  • Twitter hid a Trump tweet that claimed "we are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election" behind a label that said it was potentially misleading.
Published 04 Nov, 2020 07:33pm