Published 19:55 IST, January 11th 2020

Employees sue Facebook for allegedly monitoring their toilet breaks

Facebook has been sued by its employees for allegedly monitoring their breaks, even they take time to go to the toilet. The news broke out from FB HQ at Dublin.

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Facebook has been sued by its employees for allegedly monitoring ir breaks, even when y to go to toilet, according to international media reports. news broke out from Facebook's European hequarters in Dublin, Ireland where a lot of employees working as content moderators have alleged working in a strict environment under ir senior manrs tracking ir time for toilet breaks. y required employees to log in and out every time y leave ir desks. 

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Spokesperson defends company

employees in question worked as content moderators and were in charge of sensitive, illegal, porgraphic or child abuse content. A company spokesperson defending company said that news is false and employee has been monitored or any restriction on breaks that y take. official ded that system which is placed re is to assist plan "staffing schedules" and make sure that employees get time for ir training and "well-being breaks". 

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Ministry of Justice in Brazil slaps lawsuit

Ministry of Justice in Brazil slapped US tech giant Facebook Inc with a hefty charge of 6.6 million reais ($1.6 million) on December 31 for improperly sharing user data with apps. This comes after ministry clarifies that ir consumer protection department has found that data from 443,000 Facebook users was shared with an app called  "thisisyourdigitallife". ministry in a statement asserted that data was being shared for "questionable" purposes.

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Facebook in an email response to ministry said that y are evaluating its legal options regarding case. ministry accused Facebook, world's largest social networking site, for t providing users with equate information regarding default privacy settings. y said that data related to "friends" and "friends of friends" has particularly t been mentioned by Facebook. Furrmore, ministry of justice also revealed that y h launched a probe into data breach following Cambridge Analytica case in 2018. As per reports, Facebook has only 10 days to appeal decision and fine should be paid within 30 days.

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19:55 IST, January 11th 2020