The total amount of money given to bug bounty hunters by the social media giant has reached $25 million.
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WhatsApp Takes Down 6.8 Million Accounts Linked to Criminal Scam Centers, Meta Says
Meta linked these scams to a criminal scam center in Cambodia — and said it disrupted the campaign in partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
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Settlement Reached in Investors’ Lawsuit Against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Other Company Leaders
A settlement has been reached in the class action brought by investors against Meta over the Cambridge Analytica incident, but details have not been shared.
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Trial Opens Against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Other Leaders Over Facebook Privacy Violations
An $8 billion class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta stemming from the 2018 privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.
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Spyware Maker NSO Ordered to Pay $167 Million Over WhatsApp Hack
Meta has won its WhatsApp hacking lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO Group in an “important step forward for privacy and security”.
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Meta Releases Llama AI Open Source Protection Tools
Meta has released new Llama protection tools to help the open source AI community build more secure applications.
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FreeType Zero-Day Being Exploited in the Wild
Meta’s Facebook security team warns of live exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in the open-source FreeType library.
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Meta Hit With $102 Million Privacy Fine From European Union Over 2019 Password Security Lapse
Meta fined more than $100 million by a European Union privacy regulator over a security lapse involving Facebook passwords.
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Meta Agrees to $1.4B Settlement With Texas in Privacy Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition
Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over a facial recognition feature.
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Brazil Data Regulator Bans Meta From Mining Data to Train AI Models
Brazil’s national data protection authority has determined that Meta cannot use data originating in the country to train its artificial intelligence.
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