Meta to ask EU users’ permission to show targeted advertising
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company will stop harvesting audience data to create profiles for advertisers after regulatory rulings Facebook and Instagram are to ask EU...
Category : Media
Biden ‘serious’ on prisoner swap for US reporter Evan Gershkovich
Biden says process ‘under way’ to free Wall Street Journal reporter held in Russia and accused without evidence of spying Joe Biden has said he...
New RTÉ boss says pay scandal involving top TV presenter ‘shameful’
Kevin Bakhurst says actions taken to rebuild trust after public misled over Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy’s pay The scandal around the pay of...
Meta delays EU launch of Twitter rival Threads amid uncertainty over personal data use
New app developed by Facebook and WhatsApp owner is due to launch in the UK and US on Thursday Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Twitter will...
Mobile phones and other devices to be banned from Dutch classrooms
Education ministry in the Netherlands says tech is a distraction from learning and will only be allowed if specifically needed Mobile phones, tablets and smartwatches...
US ambassador to Russia says jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in ‘good health’
Ambassador Lynne Tracey was allowed to meet the journalist in a Moscow jail in her second such visit since his arrest in March Russia has...
Authors leave Hungarian publisher in protest at sale to Orbán-linked college
Libri Group’s takeover by Mathias Corvinus Collegium raises fears of crackdown on literary freedoms The takeover of Hungary’s largest publishing house and bookstore chain by...
Italian government accused of exerting ‘ruthless’ influence at state broadcaster
Source claims Giorgia Meloni’s coalition seeking to ‘cancel Italy’s antifascism footprints’ amid series of high-profile Rai departures Sources at the Italian state broadcaster, Rai, have...
Facebook owner Meta fined €1.2bn for mishandling user information
Penalty from Ireland’s privacy regulator is a record for breach of EU data protection regulation Business live – latest updates Facebook’s owner, Meta, has been...
