"Meta" news, interviews, and features

News about Meta

• Spanish media's $600M suit against Meta is based on GDPR noncompliance

  An association representing 83 Spanish media outlets accuses the company of having a competitive advantage based on violations of EU data-protection regulations and could set ...

• Digital platforms face ACCC scrutiny for data collection and ‘unfavourable’ cloud storage

  Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft hold ‘gatekeeper’ status for consumers’ digital usage.

• Meta and ByteDance dispute gatekeeper status of platforms under EU’s DMA

  After the EU named Facebook Messenger and Marketplace, and TikTok gatekeeper platforms under its Digital Markets Act, both parents companies have decided to launch legal ...

• Meta employees who flout new return-to-office mandate face termination

  Weeks before Meta’s new return-to-office policy is set to come into force, the company’s human resources chief wrote to employees warning of serious consequences for ...

• Meta slammed with $20M penalty over Aussie user data security claims

  Claimed data would be kept safe when it was used for market research activities.

• Meta lets loose second generation of Llama AI models

  Meta says organisations can download Llama 2 for free, and run it wherever they wish, for research and commercial purposes.

Features about Meta

• Meta exec: VR meetings will coexist with, not replace, videoconferencing (for now)

  Mike LeBeau, founder and product lead for Meta’s Horizon Workrooms, makes the case for VR as the future of team meetings — but admits the ...