Meta could face more Restrictions on the purpose of its use of your dataAfter the US Federal Trade Commission proposed to prevent the company from benefiting from the information it collects from users under the age of eighteen. Meta, which changed its name from Facebook in late 2021, still operates that social network, along with Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp.
“Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises,” Samuel Levine, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Consumer Protection, said in a statement Wednesday. The FTC said Facebook failed to fully comply with a privacy order from 2020 that saw the company Pay a fine of $5 billion.
An independent evaluator found that Facebook had violated it 2012 and 2020 Privacy Orders By “continuing to give app developers access to users’ private information” through the middle of 2020, the FTC said. The agency also alleges that Facebook allowed children to use its Messenger Kids app to communicate with unapproved contacts via group chats and group video calls between late 2017 and mid-2019, despite telling parents they could control who their children could contact.
“The company’s recklessness puts young users at risk, and Facebook needs to respond to its failures,” Levine added.
The FTC has proposed the following changes to its 2020 privacy order, which will apply to the Meta services Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as to the VR Oculus effort:
Prohibit the monetization of any data collected on users under 18, and stop launching new features, products, and services without the rater’s written consent that there are no loopholes or weaknesses in compliance with the 2020 Privacy Order. Any company that Meta acquires or merges with is also in compliance with the Order Privacy, the requirement to disclose any future uses of facial recognition and obtain users’ permission in this area, and to enhance Meta privacy reviews, third-party monitoring, data inventory and access controls, and employee privacy training.
Head of Meta Communications Andy Stone described the FTC’s announcement as “political stunt. “
“Despite three years of continued engagement with the FTC on our agreement, it has provided no opportunity to discuss this completely unprecedented new theory,” Stone wrote on Twitter. “We have spent tremendous resources building and implementing an industry-leading privacy program under the terms of our FTC agreement. We will fight this measure vigorously and expect it to prevail.”
Stone also referred to the privacy practices of Chinese social media app TikTok, which he said is allowed to “operate without restrictions on US soil.” TikTok, however, was Congress faces over concerns It does not protect data collected from the millions of Americans who use the video app, which has been described as a national security threat.
TikTok faces a possible ban Amid concern that US user data is passed to the Chinese governmentor that the Chinese government could influence public opinion in the United States by dictating what content is shown to American TikTok users.
Thanks to another Meta privacy status, if you used Facebook between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022, you may be eligible for a portion of $725 million settlement to be paid by Meta. It comes after a class-action lawsuit accused Facebook of improperly sharing users’ personal information with outside organisations. Including Cambridge Analyticaa British political consulting firm with ties to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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