Are Facebook users better off after its $5 billion fine?

Are Facebook users better off after its $5 billion fine?

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If you're one of Facebook's more than 2 billion users, are you any better off now than you were before the Federal Trade Commission imposed new privacy restrictions and a $5 billion fine on the company this week?

Facebook's settlement with the FTC after the agency's yearlong investigation provides a detailed account of the company's sneaky behavior and secures a handful of new safeguards, many of them backward-looking. They limit how Facebook shares some data with third-party app developers, circumscribe the collection of phone numbers for advertising purposes and require "clear and conspicuous" notice before people's photos and videos are subjected to facial recognition technology.

Are Facebook users better off after its $5 billion fine?

Jul 25, 2019, 9:18pm UTC
https://apnews.com/611607cf8bb249918716fca52dbcfaf7 > If you're one of Facebook's more than 2 billion users, are you any better off now than you were before the Federal Trade Commission imposed new privacy restrictions and a $5 billion fine on the company this week? > Facebook's settlement with the FTC after the agency's yearlong investigation provides a detailed account of the company's sneaky behavior and secures a handful of new safeguards, many of them backward-looking. They limit how Facebook shares some data with third-party app developers, circumscribe the collection of phone numbers for advertising purposes and require "clear and conspicuous" notice before people's photos and videos are subjected to facial recognition technology.