Meta Platforms Inc.’s stark warning of a retreat from Europe may just be the start, as a person of the region’s prime privateness watchdogs prepares a decision that could paralyze transatlantic data flows and chance billions in profits for tech giants. The Irish data protection authority, which polices the Silicon Valley tech giants that have
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared onscreen at Facebook’s virtual Connect meeting on Thursday, smiling as he wandered through sterile rooms filled with midcentury fashionable home furnishings, he seemed like a male unburdened. Whistle-blower? What whistle-blower? Cascading, yearslong belief crisis that has regulators fuming, staff bailing and lawmakers comparing Facebook to Big Tobacco? Hmm, does not ring