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[ad_1] The company appears not to know the full extent of what its systems do with users’ data. That could be a problem. For all the difficulties that Meta Platforms Inc. is going through with declining ad revenues, higher costs related to its risky investment in the metaverse and its first major restructuring, the company has been relatively lucky with privacy regulators.It has avoided the most detrimental fines under Europe's main privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, despite making billions of dollars from being one of the world's biggest processors of personal data. But that luck may be about to run out. Meta looks like it could struggle to comply with the European Union's upcoming antitrust law, which prohibits data combination and reuse. In a rece...

[ad_1] Tanya O’Carroll, a technology and human rights campaigner, filed the suit at London’s High Court challenging Facebook’s “surveillance advertising." Meta Platforms Inc. is facing demands that it stop harvesting personal data for targeted advertisements in a fresh UK lawsuit that goes to the heart of Facebook's business model.Tanya O'Carroll, a technology and human rights campaigner, filed the suit at London's High Court challenging Facebook's “surveillance advertising,” according to the law firm representing her, AWO. Facebook violates general data protection regulations by processing and profiling her personal data that's then tailored for the advertisements, they argue. The case attacking Meta's business model adds to a series of regulatory and legal risks for Meta in Europe,...

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