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India’s CCI says competition a legitimate privacy concern, Meta disagrees

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) imposed a Rs 213.14 crore (US$26 million) on Meta, whose data practices were deemed unfair in a broadly defined ruling against WhatsApp that incorporated competition. The regulator claimed possible misuse of user data relating to over-the-top (OTT) messaging and online display advertising and had concern about unfair terms under its competition law, the Competition Act. Meta disagrees and plans to appeal.

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Pokémon Go, more than just a game – it’s AI input now

November 26, 2024

Niantic, developer of Pokémon Go the uber popular game that since 2016 has sent droves of players outside (gasp!) to catch virtual Pokémon, just announced it plans to use that valuable data. The company spent the last 5 years building a virtual positioning system (VPS) to enable creation of 3D maps utilizing images users collected – currently 10 million images and growing exponentially with ~1 million new scans a week. Late for privacy now, but advice from in-house is ‘don’t take images in private places – or of loved ones,’... Read More >

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Meta Faces Class Action for Overcharging Facebook Advertisers

April 17, 2025

Remember the good old days, when lying was considered unacceptable? The folks at Iron Tribe Fitness, a South Carolina gym, are holding Meta to that forgotten standard in a class action suit alleging that Facebook overcharged advertisers as much as $4 billion by using one type of auction bidding process while claiming to use another.  Meta blames the error on a “software glitch” that began in 2013 and continued for at least four years.

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