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Re:Statement by FTC Regarding Reported Concerns about Facebo... by TangoTrotFox on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:22AM (#16685222)
In the US personal data generally has 0 protections with a handful of exceptions like medical information. As the FTC's statement reads, the only possible issue here is Facebook violating their own privacy policy (stated as a privacy 'promise') and the consequence there will be at worst a very gentle slap on the wrist.

If not for the media coverage of this, Facebook would be unable to care any less. The media coverage though is driving the stock prices down and effect the company many orders of magnitude more negatively than any legal enforcement will.

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Re:Statement by FTC Regarding Reported Concerns about Facebo... by gnode on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:26AM (#16687596)
The issue with inferences is that you could use relatively unprotected data, such as location data, to derive, for example, medical data. The example of going into an abortion clinic and having had an abortion is an obvious one. In that case, does the law consider you to be handling medical data? Can you sell it to a third party simply classed as location data analysis?
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