The FTC's action stems from the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which as many as 50 million Facebook users' data was misused. The FTC expects "things to change fairly dramatically" on the ...

We break down Facebook's 2011 settlement with the FTC. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services ...

Facebook assessed $5 billion penalty, subjected to sweeping new restrictions on user privacy decisions to settle FTC charges the company violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine over its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to collect millions of users' data without their consent. Facebook will be ...

I also have a degree in studio art. Credentials On April 23, a federal court approved the settlement between the FTC and Facebook, which was announced in July. Here's all you need to know about ...

Specifically, the FTC said Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact with in the Messenger Kids app and was deceptive about ...

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is reportedly helping regulators as they investigate whether the social media behemoth should be broken up for violating antitrust rules. According to reports ...

That’s because the “conduct relief” that the FTC imposed on Facebook will be plainly ineffective and easy for the company to subvert, and Facebook’s management, including Chairman and CEO ...

Facebook and the wider U.S. tech industry are also under growing pressure at home. The FTC is looking to see whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 consent order in which the Menlo Park company ...

Reports emerged today that the FTC is considering a fine against Facebook that would be the largest ever from the agency. Even if it were 10 times the size of the largest, a $22.5 million bill ...

The Federal Trade Commission apparently thinks MeWe is a big competitor to Facebook. That's what it said this week when it gave a short list of social media rivals — most of which are long gone ...