Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by baynoob on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:27AM
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How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company? Whereas TikTok and others having business as normal
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Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by nickthegreek on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:39AM
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Why is FTC making sure the biggest social media company plays by the rules that they continue to break? I find it hard to believe that this question is in good faith.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by walls on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:38AM
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Perhaps because FB is actually breaking the law.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by michael_vo on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:30AM
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Well, FB does have ~2BB euros set aside to pay for EU fines in 2023. So not just the FTC!
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:38AM
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You know how it goes. They're going to take the budget away if it doesn't get spent.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by Rexxar on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:50AM
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Hopefully, this will prevent all of the comments that say EU only fine them because they don't like US companies.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by theRealMe on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:43AM
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TikTok is currently being considered for a total ban in the US isn’t it? And it’s banned on US government devices? Not the greatest example to use for your point.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by uoaei on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:44AM
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Every comment from this account is defending or advocating for Meta or one of its products. Don't drink the Kool-aid, folks!
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by baynoob on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:54AM
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Haha. I think all ad company work more of less in same manner. You can use whatever slang you want.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by weego on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:45AM
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This is the equivalent of someone complaining to the policeman that pulled them over for speeding that another car just sped past them and he's not giving them a ticket too.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by baynoob on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:56AM
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Haha. targeting one specific car plate at each turn while never saying a word to every other car speeding up (to other companies doing the same stuff as well as other big monopolies).
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by rvz on Thursday May 04, 2023 @11:57AM
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It is because Facebook has lots of money and users just like TikTok today, but Facebook was the biggest at the time when they got fined in the billions.
If the FTC is getting upset at Facebook over privacy issues, then they should equally apply this to all social networks, especially TikTok which is just as equally as bad if not worse today and should also be fined in the multi-billions of dollars if the are to continue to operate in the US with a worse track record of privacy violations. [0] [1] [2]
A massive multi-billion dollar fine for TikTok is much better than a total ban.
[0] https://edpb.europa.eu/news/national-news/2021/dutch-dpa-tik...
[1] https://www.scmagazine.com/news/privacy/uk-tiktok-16m-fine-c...
[2] https://fortune.com/2022/12/22/tiktok-data-privacy-blunder-c...
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by dragonwriter on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:02PM
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> How come FTC keeps coming back at this one company?
It doesn’t, exclusively.
Lots of social media companies have had run ins with the FTC.
Re:FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
by isthiseasymode on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:07PM
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Comments like these make me wonder if they’re Meta employees that held onto their RSUs too long.