Data Privacy

A group of Germany’s major media, tech, and advertising companies slapped antitrust allegations against Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone privacy settings changes citing negative ad market repercussions, the Financial Times reports. What Happened: Today, ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has begun a probe in Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) following the social media company’s data breach compromising 533 accounts, Reuters reports. Facebook had acknowledged the data hack via manipulation of its...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) could impose a new privacy notification rule timed with its iOS 14.5 operating system launch, that could allegedly hamper the sales of that digital advertising firms like Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB), Reuters reports. The one-time notices...

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google intends to terminate ad sales based on browsing across multiple websites, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google intends to stop employing and investing in tracking technologies that distinctively identify web users...

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google and Amazonn.com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) have been fined €100 million (roughly $121 million) and €35 million (roughly $42 million) by France’s privacy watchdog for violating user consent in cookie management, ...

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) have decided to ban data broker X-Mode Social Inc from collecting location information from iOS or Android devices, the Wall Street Journal reports. What Happened: X-Mode Social is a...

In more trouble for the Chinese tech giant, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (NYSE: BABA)-backed Indian grocer BigBasket suffered a massive data breach affecting a million users, Bloomberg reports. The cyberattack comes a few weeks after another Alibaba-backed e-...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is facing two investigations in Ireland over its handling of children's personal data, Reuters reported Sunday.  What Happened: Graham Doyle, Deputy Commissioner of the Data Protection Commission (DPC) — the main privacy regulator in the European Union...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) on Thursday filed a lawsuit against two companies for allegedly harvesting data from its users in an unauthorized fashion in the Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo. What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led company said in a statement the two...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is unsure if it can continue to run its social media platforms in the European Union if a new Ireland data protection ruling comes into effect. What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led company told Ireland’s High Court that if a ruling by the country’s ...

Many popular apps including those related to dating, makeup, kids entertainment, religion and menstruation tracking are sharing personal user data with third-parties in violation of the European Union's GDPR laws, a research by government-funded Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) has found....

Social media giant Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) had a rough 2018, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal dominating headlines in the first half of the year and now reports that management allowed outside companies access to read users' messages. What Happened Facebook's multiple privacy-...

The communication services sector replaced the telecommunications sector in September, and several high-flying stocks migrated from the consumer discretionary and technology sectors to communication services in the process.  Stocks making the move include three of the four in the FANG...