Wall Street banks constitute the majority of companies involved in communications and record-keeping investigations conducted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Banks have collectively been fined or have set aside more than $1 billion to cover regulatory penalties. This is why asset managers are …
Read More »Facebook Inc’s Apps go down for millions of users in widespread outrage
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and a handful of other apps suddenly crashed Monday afternoon, turning up error messages to its millions of users around the world. All of the apps that went down are owned by Facebook. The major outage comes as Facebook finds itself in hot water over its role …
Read More »European Union Fines on WhatsApp
The European Union has decided to impose a EUR 225 million fine on WhatsApp, the messaging application owned by Facebook, due to breaching data protection rules. The EU Data Protection Commission in Ireland decided to impose the fine and require that WhatsApp changes how it explains terms, conditions, and privacy …
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