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If a person is out on bail, violating that bail order forfeits their bail payment and they also go back to jail. So if FB has not been complying with FTC's ord
by batmaniam 3y ago
If a person is out on bail, violating that bail order forfeits their bail payment and they also go back to jail.
So if FB has not been complying with FTC's order, then what's the penalty they have to pay for their failure?
- loeg 3y agoFacebook isn't on bail. And as a metaphor, bail is not relevant to the situation.
- batmaniam 3y agoYea maybe it was a bad example. I meant to say what type of enforcement is behind the FTC's order? With bail, the enforcement is through expensive monetary forfeiture and the guarantee of jail time. And if any laws were broken during the time out on bail, the person will get additional charges in addition to the ones they already had while on bail. Basically all crimes/violations are covered and punishment dished out accordingly to each current/past violations. Facebook violated the order by the FTC, and for the order to have any teeth to it, there must be some sort of enforcement action behind it, just like for bail. Right now it seems like FB is just getting told off by saying the FTC will 'propose' FB not to benefit from certain data collection. Ok, so nothing has been actually enforced for the violation. And what about for the past violations? Will FB be forced to delete all their data they collected during the time they were under the FTC's order? The proposal (if even passed), will only limit future collections, not violations that have already happened and profited from. > Now, the FTC has proposed changes to the 2020 order that would prohibit Facebook owner Meta from launching new products on any of its platforms without procuring written FTC compliance confirmation and prevent the company from monetizing any of the youth data it collects across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus.