Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s column in the Washington Post identifies four areas of regulation.
German competition authority stops Facebook from combining user data from different sources
Irish regulator questioning Facebook’s intended integration of WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram
The company started work to link the messaging functions of the three apps, and regulators are not happy.
Facebook to adopt transparency rules ahead of the next European elections
The social network announced on Monday at an event in Brussels tools to make political advertising more transparent.
Irish Data Protection Commissioner runs inquiry on Facebook’s latest data breach
Italian competition authority fines Facebook €10m for misleading personal data use
Facebook reaches settlement to pay more than €100m taxes in Italy
The company will pay the country’s Revenue Agency (“Agenzia delle Entrate”) for the period 2010–2016
Facebook agrees co-regulation test with French regulators
UK and Canadian Parliament form joint international committee to hear Facebook’s CEO
The Chairs of the UK Select Committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and of the Canadian Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics, have invited Mark Zuckerberg to an unprecedented joint hearing
Japanese DPA asks Facebook to improve data protection practices
The Personal Information Protection Commission (PPC) demands that Facebook better protect users’ personal data
