The FTC claimed on Wednesday that Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order and has caused more harm, especially with children.
Getty/Chip Somodevilla The commission is now proposing changes to the order that would impose stricter oversight and limitations on Facebook. The company is firing back with both barrels, calling the proposed changes a “political stunt.”that on Wednesday, the FTC claimed that Facebook has not been taking sufficient steps to abide by a 2020 privacy order and has instead been endangering users.
The FTC claims that one of the most concerning issues is the claim that Facebook’s Messenger Kids product misled parents about who could communicate with children and who had access to their personal information. According to the FTC, a Facebook bug allowed “children in certain circumstances” to “communicate with unapproved contacts in group text chats and group video calls” rather than providing sufficient parental controls to stop strange adults from contacting kids.
A report from an independent assessor who looked over Facebook’s privacy program and found “several gaps and weaknesses” in it that prompted the FTC to propose changes. The FTC claims that some of these flaws “pose substantial risks to the public.” “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,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “FTC Chair Lina Khan’s insistence on using any measure—however baseless—to antagonize American business has reached a new low.
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