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Revealed: New Orleans archdiocese concealed serial child molester for years
The last four Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans went to shocking lengths to conceal a confessed serial child molester who is still living but has never been prosecuted, a Guardian investigation has found.
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Meta's Record-Breaking Fine: A Deep Dive into the $1.3 Billion EU Privacy Violation
In a landmark ruling, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was slapped with a record-breaking fine of €1.2 billion (approximately $1.3 billion) by the European Union for violating its stringent privacy policies. This fine is the largest ever imposed under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), a set of rules designed to protect customer privacy in the European Union.
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How institutions like the Catholic Church can weaponize bankruptcy
Across the United States, various institutions that have faced sexual abuse allegations ranging from the Boy Scouts of America to USA Gymnastics have filed for bankruptcy. Could the Archdiocese of Baltimore follow?
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Don’t Just Deactivate Facebook—Delete It Instead
Facebook has been under fire of late. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned firm is suffering as Apple’s privacy changes combined with a tough economic climate hit revenues. Then this week Facebook owner Meta confirmed it was trialling subscriptions, with users asked to pay for extra support when using the social network and its sister site Instagram. Some Facebook users saw this as the beginning of the end; something that Google search trends confirm.
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Google Is Protesting a Canadian Law by Blocking News in Search Results
Google is following the Facebook playbook and threatening to cut off access to news in Canada unless lawmakers agree to gut legislation aimed at making tech companies pay publishers for their content.
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These retailers share customer data with Facebook's owner. Customers may not have been told
When a shopper shares their email address at the cash register — to receive an electronic receipt, rather than a paper one — do they really know where their details are being sent? A CBC News review of Facebook user data suggests a variety of well-known retailers in Canada have been sharing customer information with the social media platform's parent company to gain marketing research in return. And it's not clear what steps have been taken to warn shoppers.
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One year later, Apple's privacy changes helped boost its own ads business, report finds
A new report examing the impact of Apple’s privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency, indicates Apple’s ads business appears to have financially benefitted as a result of the feature’s launch. Now over a year old, App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, reached mass adoption in June 2021, allowing for a comparative year-over-year analysis of the post-ATT mobile ads landscape, which finds how Apple has benefitted from the privacy update.
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Meta has to pay walkie-talkie app $174 million for infringing on its patents, jury says
Walkie-talkie app Voxer accused Meta in 2020 of infringing its patents of communications tech, and a jury ruled in Voxer's favor on Wednesday.
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The Continued Unraveling of Mark Zuckerberg’s Malicious Metaverse
What is best in life? Being right about another man’s failures. Watching his allies abandon him. And hearing the lamentations of his shareholders. Call me the world’s happiest cynic, then, because when I predicted the utter and catastrophic failure of Facebook’s rebranding as “Meta” starting less than a year ago, I genuinely didn’t think it would all unravel as quickly and ignominiously as it has.
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Mark Zuckerberg says there is no 'shadow banning' on Facebook but admits there are 'millions of mistakes'
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook has no "shadow banning" policy, but admitted that mistakes do happen. In a three-hour interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, the Meta CEO talked about topics from the metaverse to his views on the credibility of the FBI, calling it a "legitimate institution."
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Meta has Faced 29 Major Lawsuits in the Last 2 Years, Plaintiffs Include the U.S. Federal Government, IRS, DOJ and FTC – New York Economic Journal
Large companies face lawsuits all the time. It would be strange for a company as large as Facebook (now Meta), to go for a two year stretch without facing any kind of lawsuit.
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A company called Meta is suing Meta, accusing the tech giant of stealing its name for its metaverse rebrand
VR company MetaX — which goes by Meta in its branding — says confusion caused by Facebook's metaverse rebrand has already damaged its business.
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says Meta can't recover until Mark Zuckerberg steps down: report
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said the social media giant won't be able to recover until Mark Zuckerberg steps down as chief executive. In an interview with Bloomberg, she spoke about what compelled her to go public after she left the company in May 2021.
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Cambridge Analytica scandal: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued by Washington, DC AG
The Cambridge Analytica scandal returned to haunt Meta aka Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with Washington District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A Racine announcing that his office is suing the social media behemoth's founder for his role in Facebook's misleading privacy practices and failure to protect millions of users' data.
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Apple Says Plan for Nearly 50% Commission on Metaverse Purchases 'Lays Bare Meta's Hypocrisy'
Apple has responded to Meta's plan to take a nearly 50% commission for digital asset purchases made inside the metaverse after complaining about fees in the App Store, calling the decision hypocritical.
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Australia sues Facebook over scam ads impersonating celebrities
Australia has launched legal action against Facebook's parent company Meta, alleging it allowed scam ads to target users with fake celebrity endorsements. The tech giant had engaged in "false, misleading or deceptive conduct" by knowingly hosting the ads for bogus cryptocurrencies, a regulator said.
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Facebook misled investors about battling climate and COVID lies: SEC filings
In complaints to the U.S. government, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen accused the tech giant of misleading investors about combating climate and Covid-19 misinformation, The Washington Post revealed Friday.
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Meta threatens to pull Instagram and Facebook in Europe over privacy laws, regulators say ‘please do’
In a new regulatory filling this month, Facebook parent company Meta renewed its threats to pull both Facebook and Instagram in the European Union over privacy laws. Regulators in the EU, however, have quickly called Meta’s bluff, and even went as far east to say that “life is very good without Facebook and that we would live very well without Facebook.”
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Facebook and Google accused of ‘secret deal’ to carve up ad empire
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and his counterpart at Google, CEO Sundar Pichai, secretly struck a deal in 2018 to carve up the digital advertising market between the two tech giants.
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Facebook sued for billions over harvesting people's data
Facebook is facing a class action lawsuit which could see its parent company Meta paying $3.1 billion to its UK users for harvesting their data. The lawsuit was filed against Meta on Thursday with the U.K.'s Competition Appeal Tribunal in London, TechCrunch reported.
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