Facebook and Instagram users in the EU can opt out of its behavioral advertising via a free tool provided by privacy rights not-for-profit, noyb.

The EU is probing if Meta’s changes to its “pay or consent” model are enough to comply with the Digital Markets Act.

For example, when Meta started giving EU users an ad-free subscription option for Facebook and Instagram, this was supposed to serve as a "less personalized but equivalent alternative" to opting ...

EU threatens to fine Meta for saying Facebook is ‘free’ The EU says Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model might violate consumer protection laws.

Meta has been fined a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European Union regulators for violating EU privacy laws by transferring the personal data of Facebook users to servers in the ...

On Monday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission fined Meta, Facebook’s parent company, more than a billion dollars for breaching the European Union’s data-privacy rules, and ordered the social network ...

If EU users choose the "less personalized option" to access Facebook and Instagram for free, they will see ads that "may be less relevant to a person's interests," the company said.

At the start of July, the Irish Data Protection Commission, Facebook’s main data regulator in Europe, issued a draft decision that would block Meta from sending data across the Atlantic. While ...

EU and US negotiators are attempting to finalize a deal on tariffs before an impending deadline on July 9. Experts say a ...

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook's parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc's digital competition rules.