Facebook owner Meta has been fined €265m (£230m) by Irish regulators. Eko Hot Blog reports that the Data Protection Commission opened an inquiry into Meta in April 2021, after data from 533 million people in 106 countries was published on a hacking forum having been “scraped” from Facebook years earlier. EDITOR’S PICKS Belarus: Foreign Minister … Read more
WhatsApp has suffered a global outage. Eko Hot Blog reports that the giant messaging app, WhatsApp, has stopped working for several users globally. EDITOR’S PICKS 2023: Nigeria Will Fail, Break Up If APC Wins Presidential Election – Obaseki 2023: Why I Won’t Campaign For Atiku – Wike Perpetrators Of Attack On Jandor’s Campaign Train Must … Read more
The owners of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, Meta Platforms Incorporated, and its representative AT3 Resources Limited are the target of a lawsuit filed by the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria at the Federal High Court’s Abuja Judicial Division. Eko Hot Blog reports that the top regulatory body for Nigeria’s advertising ecosystem said in a … Read more
Moscow has piled fines on the world’s biggest internet platforms… EKO HOT BLOG reports that a Moscow court slapped Google with an unprecedented hefty fine of nearly $100 million on Friday as Russia ramps up its pressure on foreign tech giants. Moscow has piled fines on the world’s biggest internet platforms, accusing them of not … Read more