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Facebook Inc. mistakenly shared some users’ personal data with outside developers for a longer period of time than promised, in a breach of policies the social network implemented following the Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018.

Compass Group Plc’s U.S. unit won’t get a rehearing of an appeals court decision that found a customer can sue the company over collecting her fingerprint data to operate its vending machines.

Zoom Video Communications Inc. is delaying until later this year its first report detailing how frequently the company discloses information about its users to governments.

Brazil’s Senate approved legislation aimed at limiting false information on social media, despite the objections of privacy advocates, Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Twitter Inc.

Law firm mergers sank to a near 10-year low in the second quarter as the pace of deals all-but stalled as the sector grappled with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.