Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, is facing multiple legal and regulatory challenges. Reports have surfaced accusing Meta of ignoring instances where parents allegedly exploited their children for financial gain through paid subscription tools on its platforms. Additionally, Meta lost an early bid to dismiss a privacy class action in Illinois, accused of unlawfully capturing users' 'voiceprints' in violation of an Illinois biometric law. A California federal judge also pared down some claims in a proposed class action alleging Meta's violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act by using voice recordings from Facebook and Messenger. In Europe, Meta is under fire for allegedly failing to obtain proper consent before collecting vast amounts of data on Facebook and Instagram users for targeted advertising, facing fresh charges of privacy coercion. Consumer groups from eight EU countries have lodged complaints, accusing Meta of using a 'consent or pay' system as a smokescreen for privacy breaches.
Meta faces a swathe of complaints in Europe for allegedly failing to get proper consent before collecting vasts amounts of data about Facebook and Instagram users so it can target the ads they see https://t.co/TK8ueoACWx
European consumers challenge Meta paid service as privacy ‘smokescreen’ https://t.co/3204XiZ9Md
Meta faces a swathe of complaints in Europe for allegedly failing to get proper consent before collecting vasts amounts of data about Facebook and Instagram users so it can target the ads they see https://t.co/JxeSLjD2Yc
Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion: https://t.co/eE6fQrmaol by TechCrunch #infosec #cybersecurity #technology #news
#BREAKING Consumer groups from eight EU countries lodged complaints on Thursday against Meta, accusing the US company of illegally processing users' data and using its "pay or consent" system as a "smokescreen" for privacy breaches https://t.co/jFEOfi8hpj
Meta’s ‘consent or pay’ data grab in EU faces fresh charges of privacy coercion https://t.co/0Pez9knDUg
A California federal judge pared some claims from a proposed class action claiming Meta violates Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act by unlawfully using voice recordings created by users of its Facebook and Messenger platforms. https://t.co/tmlMhNr6wc https://t.co/4TTKw0DCmj
Meta lost an early bid to escape a privacy class action accusing it of capturing users' unique "voiceprints" in violation of an Illinois biometric law. More in @BLaw: https://t.co/Y0QbMo4P6x
"Two separate reports… accuse Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta of ignoring reports of parents sexually exploiting their own children for financial gain using paid subscription tools… " https://t.co/CcggxanPWU