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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.U.S. District Judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illlinois in 2015. Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois who submitted claims will be affected. Donato called it one of the largest settlements ever for a privacy violation.“It will put at least $345 into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated,” he wrote, calling it “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy.” Jay Edelson, a Chicago attorney who filed the lawsuit, told the Chicago Tribune that the checks could be in the mail within two months unless the ruling is appealed.“We are pleased to have reached a settlement so we can move past this matter, which is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders,” Facebook,  » Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the permission of its users.U.S. District Judge James Donato approved the deal in a class-action lawsuit that was filed in Illlinois in 2015. Nearly 1.6 million Facebook users in Illinois who submitted claims will be affected.Donato called it one of the largest settlements ever for a privacy violation.“It will put at least $345 into the hands of every class member interested in being compensated,” he wrote, calling it “a major win for consumers in the hotly contested area of digital privacy.”Jay Edelson, a Chicago attorney who filed the lawsuit, told the Chicago Tribune that the checks could be in the mail within two months unless the ruling is appealed.“We are pleased to have reached a settlement so we can move past this matter, which is in the best interest of our community and our shareholders,” Facebook,  » Read More

Amol RajanMedia editor@amolrajanon Twitterimage copyrightGetty Imagesimage captionFacebook has blocked all news content to AustraliansThe enormous beef between Australia's government and Facebook has persuaded a lot of people that we are entering a new era of technology regulation. In policy and news conferences from Palo Alto to Perth, mostly conducted on Zoom of course, heavy chat about regulation and chin-stroking reliably go together. But as is often the way with complex areas of policy, the word "regulation" has now been so used and abused as to have lost all precision in meaning. A dose of accuracy, and realism, is overdue. There are countless types of regulation, whether social or economic, most of them yet to be invented. Different countries have radically different approaches to regulation. The types of company being regulated vary hugely. And regulation, whatever form it takes, is likely to have consequences that are both slow and unforeseeable. To Australia first. The consistent negative publicity and coverage of Facebook in recent years has coloured the debate to such an extent that Facebook's argument has been somewhat lost in the coverage that I've seen.  » Read More

By Joao Fellet & Charlotte PammentBBC Brasilmedia captionWATCH: On patrol with an indigenous leader trying to protect the Amazon from land grabbersParts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being illegally sold on Facebook, the BBC has discovered.The protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples.Some of the plots listed via Facebook's classified ads service are as large as 1,000 football pitches.Facebook said it was "ready to work with local authorities", but indicated it would not take independent action of its own to halt the trade."Our commerce policies require buyers and sellers to comply with laws and regulations," the Californian tech firm added.image copyrightBrasil2image captionThe Amazon has been described as being the lungs of the Earth - and it is being destroyedThe leader of one of the indigenous communities affected has urged the tech firm to do more.And campaigners have claimed the country's government is unwilling to halt the sales.  » Read More

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FAYETTEVILLE — Raleigh County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Brian Parsons on Friday asked Fayette County Circuit Court Judge Paul Blake to order Facebook to hand over account data from two Oak Hill sisters who are among those charged with causing the death of 8-year-old Raylee Browning in December 2018.Parsons, who was appointed special prosecutor in the case on Jan. 8, made the request at a pre-trial motions hearing for Marty Browning Jr., Julie Titchenell Browning and Sherie Titchenell. All defendants are on trial for Raylee's death. They were each charged by Oak Hill Police Department in December 2019 with one count each of death of a child by parent and child neglect causing death.Marty was the victim’s father. He was in an intimate relationship with Julie when Raylee died. Sherie lived with the couple and cared for Raylee and Julie’s three children, who also lived in the house, according to court documents. Although police have obtained Marty’s Facebook data, Parsons said, the California-based company will not give Fayette investigators the sisters’ Facebook activity without an order from Blake.  » Read More

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — ‘La Pulga’ Facebook Groups have taken the flea market to another level. In Las Vegas, many small businesses and even larger ones are using these social media groups to brand and advertise their services and goods to the Latino community. There are quite a few of the ‘La Pulga de Las Vegas…’ groups on Facebook that translated, in short means The Flea of Las Vegas or The Flea. These buy-sell group pages are modeled like a traditional Flea Market filled with unique items from all over the world and both new and used. Now, this Flea Market has also gone digital in ‘La Pulga’ Facebook Groups. La Pulga is mostly popular among Spanish-speaking Latinx communities, with many looking to sell or buy furniture, food, yard sale-like items, landscaping services, Tupperware or cosmetics, while others look for work, highlight their skills or offer professional services. Most of the Facebook ‘La Pulga’ groups have thousands of followers, together the Las Vegas groups alone have more than 200K followers, all wanting to buy or sell goods. 8 News Now spoke to several members of ‘La Pulga’ who shared they had been using the group for years, while others said…

by AdExchanger // Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 – 12:03 am Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Platform check Australians started seeing links from news publishers on Facebook again after the platform gained some concessions from the Australian government over legislation that will require platforms to pay media organizations. During the dark period, social traffic from Facebook flatlined for many publishers, sites with urgent health and weather information were blocked by Facebook and misinformation filled the void. Now, Facebook will have time to strike its own deals with publishers. But is platforms paying publishers the solution? Such deals will hurt small, long tail publishers who greatly benefit from Facebook driving them traffic, but are unlikely to see Facebook pay them directly, the newsletter A Media Operator argues. Come Together You know it, we know it. There’s some crazy consolidation out there. Magnite buys SpotX. Flashtalking buys Protected Media. LiveRamp grabs Datafleets. Those are just a few. But why is it happening? Essentially, writes Digiday’s Seb Joseph, everyone is striking while the iron is hot. “Valuations for ad tech companies are at all-time highs with renewed interest in ad tech among both strategic and private equity investors,”…

Mark Zuckerberg's company has been going on a hashtag crackdown but ones linked to QAnon and Covid-19 conspiracy theories remain live, even if Facebook and Instagram are removing some after being alerted by Forbes. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Over the last two months, Facebook has pledged to use artificial intelligence and human moderators to crack down on misinformation spread across its platforms by QAnon and Covid-19 conspiracy theorists. But in some ways it’s struggling to live up to that pledge. This month it has been forced to block one hashtag on its own site and another on Instagram that were hugely popular amongst QAnon and Covid-19 conspiracy theory spreaders, not because moderators or Facebook AI discovered them, but after being alerted to them by Forbes.  The first was #DarkToLight on Facebook. As many as 30,000 people were posting about it just before it was taken down last week. It included a large number of posts containing what appeared to be QAnon-linked conspiracy theories, those that suggest an elusive deep state of the super-rich and hyper-powerful are trying to control the masses through myriad machinations and are sexually…

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Facebook said on Tuesday it would restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms.FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationThe standoff between the Canberra government and the tech giant has been closely watched by other countries, which are considering whether to follow Australia’s lead in challenging big technology firms’ dominance in the news content market.AMENDMENTSThe deal came as Australia agreed a series of changes to the original legislation.Australia’s treasurer will now consider whether a digital platform has made a “significant contribution to the sustainability of the Australian news industry through reaching commercial agreements with news media businesses” when deciding whether to apply the proposed law to Facebook or Google.A two-month mediation period has been inserted into the code. This, Australia said, would allow more time to broker agreements before they are forced to enter a binding final offer arbitration process.Australia will tweak the final offer arbitration process to ensure that mediation is first sought.THE END OF THE STANDOFF?Australia says the amendments will encourage Facebook…