FTC settlement with Facebook is final

A settlement between Facebook and the FTC regarding the privacy policy of the social network is becoming definitive. As part of the settlement, should Facebook the next twenty years of privacy assessments.

Facebook went last year and agree with the settlement, but the U.s. Federal Trade Commission explained this first to the general public. Now is that done, and three of the five FTC portfolios wholly dedicated voted like Facebook in the settlement.

The settlement means for Facebook, concretely, that the company users to consent before information in a new way is shared. In the past, Facebook multiple times private information is visible to a larger audience who first, for example, only for a person’s Facebook friends to see. Also shared the company sometimes information with advertisers and other third parties, unbeknownst to users.

In addition, the social-networking site the next twenty years, every two years a privacy audit is carried out by an independent party. Such audits may be viewed by the FTC. In return, the need Facebook not to confess guilt. There is also no penalty imposed.

A day earlier gave the FTC, Google is still a recordboete of 22.5 million dollars for the work of the do-not-track-security of Safari. Google used a loophole in Safari to tracking cookies. It is the largest penalty a company has ever been to the FTC has to pay.