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Meta urged to avoid compulsory layoffs as it moves cuts 500 jobs in Ireland

Financial Services Union calls on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar to reach out to the company and ensure it is implementing redundancies in a fair manner

Coveney did not raise issue of Irish staff cuts with Meta boss

After Facebook’s parent announced global layoffs in March, the minister sent a letter to Nick Clegg, head of global affairs, supporting the firm’s future plans in Ireland

It’s business as usual on data transfers despite Meta ruling

Proposed new legislation means it is unlikely the Facebook parent company will have to pay the DPC’s €1.2 billion fine

Meta lobbies Taoiseach and Tánaiste over EU ban on data transfers

The owner of Facebook has asked Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin and Simon Coveney for support in bid to help prevent a EU ban on it sending users’ information to the United States

Lucinda Creighton: Meta’s €1.2bn fine is wholly appropriate, and not before time

The tech giant has promised over and over to do the right thing each time it is caught out misusing private data, but it never truly changes

‘Uninterrupted economic growth cannot last forever’ - Tánaiste

Micheál Martin says the 500 Meta job losses are ‘very significant'

Nick Clegg touts Metaverse to Simon Coveney as way to boost Irish education

Emails between tech giant’s Global Affairs President and Minister for Enterprise sent six weeks before Meta confirmed 500 more jobs cuts in Ireland

Facebook-parent Meta to cut close to 500 jobs in Ireland

Final number of redundancies is dependent on a collective consultation process with employees

Facebook-owner Meta must hand over data to European regulators in anti-competitive probe

The tech giant is being investigated over its sales platform and use of data

Fears for Irish jobs in Meta’s latest round of layoffs

Redundancies are part of a plan announced in March by Facebook’s parent company

WhatsApp introduces ‘edit within 15 minutes’ function for messages

The Meta-owned app said new feature would be available to all users within the coming weeks

Analysis: Meta’s ‘innocent bystander’ act in data transfer dogfight is disingenuous following record fine

Given Meta has pumped $10 billion a year on the metaverse, for no real return, it is unlikely to break into a sweat over the DPC’s €1.2bn fine

Facebook fined €1.2bn, ordered to halt EU-US data transfers

Penalty easily eclipses the previous record €746m fine levied by EU regulators on Amazon in July 2021

Irish Data Protection Commission to order Meta to stop data transfers to US as firm faces EU fine

Decision will only target Facebook and won’t affect other Meta services

75 per cent of Irish Data Protection Commissioner decisions overruled, according to report

While critical in particular of the Irish office, the study said the EU’s enforcement as a whole is weak

Survivor’s guilt: As Big Tech downsizes, workers left behind try to pick up the pieces

Much of the focus during recent swingeing tech cuts has been on workers who have been laid off – but things aren’t straightforward for those remaining in their roles, with some companies even running ‘grief sessions’ to try and help

Artificial Intelligence

Meta introduces AI tools to create ads and predict performance

Company as been under pressure to rediscover growth in its core digital advertising business

Facebook must face privacy suit over Cambridge Analytica

Judge concludes Facebook board cannot be trusted to investigate the scandal

ESB unaware it was undercharging Meta until tech giant tipped it off

The energy regulator is investigating if there is a ‘systemic’ problem with ESB’s billing system after Business Post revelation

Regulator investigating ‘systemic’ issues in ESB system after Meta was undercharged for 18 months

An ESB error led to the Facebook owner being undercharged for power at Clonee data centre due to substation technical fault