The taliban is working to restrict the use of Facebook in Afghanistan considering that the social network prohibits freedom of expression to the fundamentalist Government and instills “unethical” issues among Afghan society, a government official confirmed to EFE this Sunday. The spokesperson for the Ministry of Telecommunications and Technology, Enayatullah Alokozai, told EFE that “work […]
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Zuckerberg apologizes to parents of victims of child abuse on social networks
The executive director of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, apologized this Wednesday to a group of relatives who claim that their children were victims of sexual abuse because of the Internet, but denied that the use of social networks harm the mental health of minors. This was said during a hearing in the United States Senate, in […]
Türkiye fines Facebook US$159,000 a day until it changes advertising practices
Türkiye has imposed this Wednesday a daily fine of 4.8 million lire (currently about US$ 159,000 or 145,000 euros) on Meta, the parent company of Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook, until it presents a plan to stop sharing user data between its different branches. The measure aims to force Meta to comply with the obligations imposed […]
EU forces tech giants to comply with antitrust law
The European Commission (EC) forced this Wednesday Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta and Microsoft to comply with the digital markets law, the new antitrust regulations with which the European Union (EU) wants to control the market power of big technology. All of them meet the requirements of having a turnover in Europe of at least […]
Internet giants subjected to unprecedented rules in the EU
the giants of Internet They must respond as of this Friday in the European Union to reinforced obligations of transparency and the fight against illegal contentunder penalty of significant fines, under a new law without precedent in the world. The ambitious Digital Services Law (LSD) is imposed as of this Friday on the 19 main […]
Meta initiates mediation with 184 workers who denounced illegal dismissals in Kenya
A group of 184 content moderators for Africa who denounced last March for alleged illegal dismissals in Kenya to Goalparent company of the social network Facebookagreed with the company to start a mediation process that started on Wednesday. “The parties should seek an out-of-court resolution of this petition through mediation,” indicates a consent document signed […]
Mandatory RUC on social networks: what are the amounts of fines for Sunat and Indecopi for non-compliance?
Starting this Saturday, July 1, all person that offers a good or service through social networks must enter their RUC number and company name in the aforementioned advertising. At the beginning of 2022, the Executive Branch issued Legislative Decree No. 1524 that modified the Single Taxpayer Registry Law with the objective of expanding the tax […]
Kenyan Facebook moderators say their work is ‘not for humans’
Trevin Brownie hasn’t forgotten his first day as content moderator for Facebookin the premises of a subcontracted company located in the capital of KenyaNairobi. “My first video was of a man committing suicide. […] Had a 2 or 3 year old playing next door. After the man hanged himself, after about two minutes, he understood […]
Meta receives a record fine of US$ 1,300 million. for violating data rules in Europe
US social media giant Meta was fined 1.2 billion euros (nearly $1.3 billion) on Monday for breaching European data protection rules, the highest penalty imposed in Europe for such breaches. Meta, which plans to appeal the decision, was sentenced for having “continued to transfer personal data” of Facebook users from the European Economic Area to […]
Mark Zuckerberg: how much did your fortune grow this year after cuts in Meta?
After his wealth fell by more than $100 billion from his involvement in the metaverse last year, mark zuckerberg -Founder of Facebook and CEO of Goal– now you can say the results are paying off on your journey to mastering virtual reality. So far this year, his focus has been on the physical world, first […]