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Facebook to pay record-breaking $5B penalty over violating users' privacy

Original post made on Jul 25, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced a $5 billion settlement with Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc., the largest-ever penalty imposed on a company for consumer privacy violations.

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Comments (5)

Posted by whatever
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 25, 2019 at 12:45 pm

A pittance, and a joke.


Posted by Not a Fan of Facebook
a resident of Menlo Park: Sharon Heights
on Jul 25, 2019 at 1:06 pm

I hope the new data privacy laws coming in 2020 put Facebook out of business. As this decision shows, we've been zucked by Mark Zuckerberg for too long.


Posted by whatever
a resident of Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park
on Jul 25, 2019 at 1:19 pm

Not a Fan
Not until I sell my house.


Posted by Brian
a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Jul 25, 2019 at 3:07 pm

Personally I have no problem with Facebook at all. I do find it funny that the FTC cracks down on them for privacy concerns "by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information and that in congressional hearing the representative and senate bring up their grave concerns over privacy. If you look at how many times government agencies have been hacked and lost user data or had a Laptop and/or hard drive with massive amounts of user data stolen it far exceeds Facebook. The Congress has direct responsibility for these agencies and making sure data is secure but fail to protect that data. I know politicians are pretty much all hypocrites and would prefer to go after high profile private businesses instead of actually doing their jobs. This is just more proof of that...

here are a few examples:
U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs: 26.5 Million Affected (May 2006)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): 76 Million Affected (October 2009)
U.S. Voter Database: 191 Million Affected (December 2015)


Posted by Andrew
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Jul 27, 2019 at 11:37 am

As long as I am in control, Facebook will never be accessible in this house until the day I pass.


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