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The Federal Trade Commission will soon announce the details of a settlement with Facebook over privacy violations, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal on Monday (July 22). Facebook will create a new board committee that will solely exist to focus on privacy, as part of the settlement. .
With Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission in the final stages of settlement talks, disagreements between the five-member FTC panel are complicating the discussions. Facebook is in talks with the FTC to settle a lawsuit stemming from its scandal with Cambridge Analytica.
Finally, after numerous privacy delays, the joint commission established by Facebook and the Social Science Research Council announced that it now had access to one of the largest social science datasets ever constructed. . Some privacy advocates were against the project.
Regulators in the United States have reportedly met to discuss levying fines against social media giant Facebook , a punishment that could be sizable in scope and which comes in the wake of privacy violations. Other data privacy issues have been reported beyond that linkup. million paid by Google in 2012.
The FTC is about to complete an investigation into the data breach and whether Facebook violated a consent decree reached in 2011 and could levy Facebook with a sizeable fine, reported The Wall Street Journal. In 2011 the FTC said Facebook deceived customers by sharing data it said it was kept private.
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Consumer Watchdog has called on Congress to enact legislation that would protect consumers’ online privacy in the wake of Facebook’s data scandal. Facebook has a longtime record of violating privacy, making a show of apologizing, and then going forward to invade privacy again,” said John M.
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