Deals & Moves

Judge James Boasberg ruled that the FTC had failed to prove Meta currently holds a monopoly in personal social networking, rejecting the agency’s bid to force Meta to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp.

The European Commission fined Google €2.95 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in advertising technology, concluding a long-running probe.

Reporting in March 2018 revealed that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from millions of Facebook users. The scandal led to a record $5 billion FTC privacy penalty against Facebook in July 2019.

From April 26, 2021, with iOS 14.5, Apple required apps to use its App Tracking Transparency framework and ask users for permission before tracking them across other companies’ apps and websites, reshaping mobile advertising.