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So where is the FCC and its "20 year monitoring of Facebook's privacy policies" now? Or was that just lip service to appease the public that Facebook is doing
by mtgx 10y ago
So where is the FCC and its "20 year monitoring of Facebook's privacy policies" now?
Or was that just lip service to appease the public that Facebook is doing nothing wrong, because after all, it's being watched by the FCC?
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/facebook-settles-ftc-charges-it-deceived-consumers-failing-keep https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
By the way, even if what Facebook is doing now doesn't violate that settlement with the FCC, I'm 100% certain Whatsapp was already sharing phone contacts with Facebook many months before this policy change. So at least that should've violated the settlement. It's just that they didn't get caught doing it before any official noticed.
The reason I say I'm confident they were doing that is because I barely use Facebook at all on the PC, I never installed Facebook's app on my phone, and yet Facebook started suggesting me people I was talking to on Whatsapp to add as friends. And I've seen quite a few other people mention similar situations on the web as well.
Why is the FCC sleeping on the job?