https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/facebook-us-settlement-could-impose-20-years-of-oversight-246707
Facebook is nearing a settlement with US regulators over its privacy and data practices that would put it under 20 years of oversight, Reuters reported.
The deal with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would resolve a probe into whether it violated a similar pact dating from 2011, which Facebook said it did not.
The probe centres on Facebook's handling of last year's Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the now-defunct political consultancy allegedly misappropriated data on some 87 million users.
[...] Some politicians and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes have pointed out that the 2011 arrangement failed to prevent the Cambridge Analytica incident from occurring.
They have called for more stringent measures, such as forcing Facebook to sell off properties such as the WhatsApp messaging system, acquired in 2014, and Instagram, which it bought in 2012.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @09:15AM (3 children)
Other companies have leaked similar amounts of data and got nothing as severe:
https://www.cnet.com/news/equifax-data-leak-hits-nearly-half-of-the-us-population/ [cnet.com]
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-equifax-states-agreement/equifax-avoids-fines-in-deal-with-u-s-states-over-data-breach-idUSKBN1JN2YH [reuters.com]
https://www.consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2018/07/exactis-data-leak-to-affect-millions-of-americans/ [consumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com]
I found it interesting that Facebook was scapegoated by Democrats for the Trump win when they were anti conservative:
https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-suppressed-conser-1775461006 [gizmodo.com]
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-employees-asked-mark-zuckerberg-if-they-should-1771012990 [gizmodo.com]
Your real problem is elsewhere and not Facebook if your voters are really retarded enough to be influenced by these ads:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/house-democrats-release-russian-troll-facebook-election-ads.html [nymag.com]
Might turn out that not many voters were influenced by such ads - they were going to vote for Trump anyway instead of Clinton. And Cambridge Analytica got to brag about being "successful" merely because Trump won.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by rigrig on Wednesday May 15 2019, @09:32AM
It's not just about changing who they support, but also about getting people to vote at all if they support you, or not bother to vote if they support the opposition.
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday May 15 2019, @11:37AM
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday May 15 2019, @05:35PM
They already settled on this BS once before then failed to meet the conditions of the settlement.
That's why the punishment has grown larger.