Privacy Breach

The petition could present a new legal headache for WhatsApp and its parent Facebook in India, where it has already been hit by backlash over fake news messages and a lawsuit around its adherence to data localization norms

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California said the investors had failed to allege that Facebook or its executives knowingly made false statements that led to investor losses.

Hackers have broken into the systems of more than a dozen global telecoms companies and taken large amounts of personal and corporate data

Andrew Cuomo ordered two state agencies to investigate a media report that Facebook may be accessing far more personal information than previously known from smartphone users

OAKLAND: Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users' privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other users for advertising purposes, a U.S. judge has ruled.