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  • In re Facebook and Facial Recognition (2018)

    April 6, 2018

    Charging that Facebook's facial recognition practice lacks privacy safeguards and violates the 2011 Consent Order with the FTC

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Face Surveillance & Biometrics

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Consumer Cases

  • In re: Facebook (Psychological Study)

    July 7, 2014

    EPIC's complaint concerns Facebook's "secretive and non-consensual use of personal information to conduct an ongoing psychological experiment on 700,000 Facebook users, i.e. the company purposefully messed with people's minds."

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Consumer Cases

  • In re: WhatsApp

    March 10, 2014

    EPIC's complaint concerns Facebook's proposed purchase of WhatsApp

    • Competition and Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Consumer Cases

  • In re Facebook and the Facial Identification of Users

    June 14, 2011

    Concerning Facebook's covert biometric data collection, and the subsequent use of this data for online identification

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Face Surveillance & Biometrics

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Consumer Cases

  • In re Facebook II

    May 10, 2010

    EPIC's complaint focuses on the unfair and deceptive trade practices of Facebook with respect to sharing of user information with third-party application developers.

    • Competition and Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Consumer Cases

  • In re Google Buzz

    February 16, 2010

    EPIC's complaint focuses on the unfair and deceptive trade practices of Google with respect to Google's transformation of an email service to a social networking service without offering Gmail users meaningful control over their information or opt-in consent.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Consumer Cases

  • In re Facebook

    December 13, 2009

    EPIC's complaint focuses on the unfair and deceptive trade practices of Facebook with respect to sharing of user information with third-party application developers.

    • Competition and Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Consumer Cases

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