![]() ![]() Meta says it will "vigorously fight" the FTC's action and expects to prevail. "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." "Despite three years of continual engagement with the FTC around our agreement, they provided no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory," Meta says in a statement. Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection says Facebook has been reckless, while Meta says the whole thing is a "political stunt". ![]() Meta would also be subject to other limitations, including with its use of face-recognition technology and be required to provide additional privacy protections for its users. A major US regulator says Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user data.Īs a result, the Federal Trade Commision (FTC) has proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order with Facebook - now under parent company Meta - that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18, including data collected through virtual-reality products. ![]()
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