Federal regulators are reportedly considering seeking some kind of oversight of Mark Zuckerberg's leadership of Facebook over the social network giant's mishandling of users' personal information.
whether that massive breakdown violated a settlement that Facebook reached in 2011 after government regulators concluded the Menlo Park, Calif., company had repeatedly broken its privacy promises to users, who now number 2.3 billion globally.
Facebook has in the past year been buffeted by media coverage highlighting what critics call a cavalier attitude toward protecting user privacy and data — and in failing to prevent the dissemination of hate speech and misinformation on the biggest communications medium in history. The possible action by the FTC to hold Zuckerberg personally responsible for the social media site’s woes comes amid a legal dispute over reports Facebook has submitted to the agency about the adequacy of its privacy-protection measures.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the FTC to make the disclosures under government open-records laws amid questions about the accuracy and thoroughness of those checkups given Facebook’s string of missteps.The FTC redacted parts of the reports under laws intended to protect business and trade secrets, but the nonprofit privacy center is questioning those judgments.
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