India`s CCI penalizes Meta ₹213.14 crore for WhatsApp`s 2021 privacy policy update, citing anti-competitive practices and unfair business methods. Meta faces data-sharing restrictions.

The Competition Commission of India (Commission) imposed a penalty of Rs. 213.14 crore on Meta for abusing its dominant position. This relates to how WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy was ...

In its first action of this kind against a social media platform, Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday ordered ...

NEW DELHI — India's competition watchdog directed WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data for advertising purposes with other applications owned by Meta for a period of five years and fined the US ...

Arthouse film distributor Kino Lorber is being sued for tracking and sharing data to Facebook without customer consent.

Big Tech’s seemingly arbitrary and unfettered attempts to silence some voices on their platforms is now being rigorously ...

The CCI had in 2021 directed an investigation into WhatsApp’s privacy policy update, raising concerns about its potential anti-competitive practices.

The Competition Commission of India is fining Meta $25.4 million, saying it shouldn’t have required WhatsApp users to share data with all Meta companies ...

This ruling represents a seismic shift in how tech companies may be held accountable for data protection failures.

The commission opened its investigation of Meta in June 2021, inquiring into the company's collection of Facebook user data, ...

Brendan Carr, the incoming Federal Communications Commission Chairman, has demanded answers from Big Tech firms about their ...

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant ...