Back in 2022, the term “surveillance advertising” became common parlance at the Federal Trade Commission. But you won’t catch any of the current commissioners or key staff invoking that term anymore.

Every state in the United States, plus Washington, DC, has an attorney general tasked with regulating, investigating and enforcing against noncompliant marketing practices. They’re known colloquially ...

The European Union has informed Meta Platforms Inc. that the ad-free version of Facebook and Instagram may breach the bloc’s consumer protection laws. The CPC Network, a group of EU-based consumer ...

The European Commission really isn't happy about a Meta business model that gives users in the EU, European Economic Area and Switzerland the generous choice of continuing to use Facebook and ...

Days after a privacy complaint was lodged against Meta in the European Union over its latest controversial shift of legal basis claimed for processing people’s data for ads, consumer groups across the ...

Backlash over Meta’s ad-free subscription model in the European Union has begun just one month into its launch. On Thursday, Europe’s largest consumer group, the European Consumer Organization (BEUC), ...

BRUSSELS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' (META.O), opens new tab advertising-free subscription service, a fee-based offering rolled out in Europe this month, breaches EU consumer laws, Europe's ...