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A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Meta cannot prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from reopening a probe into its Facebook unit's privacy practices, despite Meta's objections and a previously paid $5 billion fine. The FTC aims to tighten the 2020 Facebook privacy settlement, focusing on banning the profit from minors' data and expanding restrictions on facial recognition technology, accusing Meta of misleading parents about the protections for their children. This ruling marks a significant step towards the FTC's efforts to regulate surveillance capitalism, particularly concerning minors on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
🤣 Meta cannot stop the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from reopening a probe into its Facebook unit's privacy practices for now, a U.S. appeals court ruled, despite Meta's objections that it already paid a $5 billion fine and agreed to a range of safeguards. https://t.co/oDPwFpx8m2
💥 The FTC wants to tighten an existing 2020 Facebook privacy settlement to ban profiting from minors' data and expand curbs on facial recognition technology. The agency has accused Meta of misleading parents about protections for children. $META https://t.co/pSMfZidpND
The D.C. Circuit ruled that the FTC can reopen the Meta privacy case to tighten the 2020 Facebook privacy settlement for profiting from minors' data and expand curbs on facial recognition accusing Meta of misleading parents about children's protections https://t.co/4jZ15gXV1V https://t.co/RA0lThQm33
