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 tech companies like Facebook, Europe — whose more than 450 million people represent roughly a quarter, or $20 billion, of the social network’s yearly profits — is at the vanguard of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is Europe setting its Facebook status as away? As per Vice, a court filing made by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) could upend the company's existence in Europe due to new regulations ...

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 ...

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 ...

The EU's DMA is said to be in the interests of consumers, but as its been implemented, it's just denying them iOS 26 features ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is set for a showdown with the European Union over allegations it crushed competition from classified ad rivals by tying the Facebook Marketplace to its massive social network.