Posted on 03/26/2018 12:20:17 PM PDT by ptsal
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed a probe into how Facebook secures information shared by billions of users as CEO Mark Zuckerberg fights to regain customer confidence in the social media giant's privacy protections.
The commission, which reached a settlement in 2011 with the Menlo Park, Calif.-based company on its handling of user data, "takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook," Tom Pahl, acting director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement on Monday. The commission "has an open non-public investigation into these practices,” he said.
The FTC, which enforces privacy regulations in the U.S., is inquiring about information acquired by Donald Trump's campaign consultant, Cambridge Analytica, on Facebook users and their connections, or "friends," within the platform's network, according to a person familiar with the matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Facebook dropped as much as 6.5 percent on Monday before paring its losses. Its shares have fallen 16 percent to $155.89 since the company disclosed the Cambridge Analytica matter.
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t, then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg told users in a post on Facebook last week. “I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
The thought of anyone probing Mark Zuckerberg is too gross to contemplate.
Complete and utter bullshiite................ain't nobody buying that!............
To me, the scandal isn’t that Cambridge got the data. I’m not going to be fooled by anyone sending me political fake news. The scandal is how much data mining Facebook does on its members without telling them.
I think I see Steven Crowder at the controls of that Corsair.
What I don’t understand is the ability to mine data through facebook has been known for years.
Facebooks sole existence is to mine data for advertisers. Why are people shocked?
They thought facebook was some sort of honest internet company?
I would not lose any sleep over disconnecting Facebook.....
....if I could only figure out how!
Rush explained this today. Basicly, he’s in hot water because he let right-wingers use Facebook to mine for data. When Obama, et. al., did this in the past it was perfectly okay. It’s about the politics, not the data!
All this blow up just because Trump might, might have used some of this data when the Rats have been using all of it for years. What an absurd joke. If FB did not exist it would have made 0 difference in the last election it’s just ridiculous.
Gotta love all the fake outrage. As if everyone didn’t know Facebook’s privacy issues, as well as social media and the internet in general. It was all good because Zuckerberg was a good little progressive, one of “us” (them). Once Trump tapped into the data, OMG, OMG! We need Congressional Hearings! New Privacy Laws!
Zuckerberg is giving new meaning to the phrase “filthy rich.”
What the hell kind of plane is that Japanese plain supposed to be?
The Japanese had no in-line water cooled fighter planes.
I’m sure the FTC will make sure that FB data will be safe and secure from now on.... for the DNC only.
Ping.
Just sayin’....
How do you trust a guy who stabbed a friend in the back in the first place and has a record of doing so.
After all, aren’t they all Zudkerberg’s ‘friends’ on Facebook?
Sure they did!
They cooled when they hit the water!..................
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