The 2020 privacy order, which required Facebook to pay a $5 billion US fine, required an independent assessor to evaluate the company's privacy practices. The FTC now says this has not been the case. senators go after head of Instagram over how platform can harm children senators grill Facebook exec about Instagram's potential harm to teen girls Let's be clear about what the FTC is trying to do: usurp the authority of Congress to set industry-wide standards and instead single out one American company while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil," Meta said in a prepared statement. "Despite three years of continual engagement with the FTC around our agreement, they provided no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory. Meta called the announcement a "political stunt." "The company's recklessness has put young users at risk, and Facebook needs to answer for its failures." 'Political stunt' "Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Meta would also be subject to other limitations, including with its use of face-recognition technology, and would be required to provide additional privacy protections for its users. The FTC said the company has failed to fully comply with the 2020 order. This would include data collected through its virtual-reality products. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order with Facebook - now called Meta - that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access to private user data that it provided to app developers.Īs a result, The U.S.
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