From WSJopinion: Facebook committed serious violations. In a watershed moment in data-privacy enforcement, the company now must pay a historic fine and change fundamentally its approach to privacy, writes FTC Commissioner Noah Joshua Phillips
The Federal Trade Commission’s case against Facebook has come to represent a general reckoning for the many ills attributed to the company. So it’s important to understand what the case, which was settled Wednesday, was actually about: the privacy commitments Facebook made to its users and the government.
In its 2012 consent order with the FTC, Facebook promised not to misrepresent how it shared user data with third parties and how users could control that data-sharing. It also promised to maintain a reasonable privacy program....
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