EPIC vs. FTC: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is faced with with a treatment filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, also known as EPIC.
The lawsuit is intended to prevent the FTC from approving the settlement with Facebook. As we mentioned earlier this week Facebook has to pay a fine of 5 billion dollars, and implement some changes to protect privacy.
Where is the problem; the FTC was very lenient with the largest social network, as Facebook's latest earnings report shows it tripled revenue from the FTC fine in just three months.
EPIC challenges the fairness of the terms of the FTC's settlement and may cause the agency to change the terms of the deal to better deal with complaints lodged by individuals and consumer groups.
The EPIC not only mentions the size of the fine, but seems to be upset about how Facebook managed to avoid responsibility for everything it has done, as the deal with the FTC allowed the company to avoid admitting its guilt for mass privacy scandals and data leakage, like its scandal Cambridge Analytica.
EPIC also wishes from the court να αποφασίσει να γνωστοποιηθεί εάν η FTC έχει χορηγήσει στο Facebook γενική ασυλία για παλαιότερες νομικές προκλήσεις και εάν το πεδίο εφαρμογής του διακανονισμού μπορεί να διευρυνθεί ώστε να συμπεριλαμβάνει ζητήματα όπως η ευρεία χρήση της αναγνώρισης προσώπου χωρίς τη συγκατάθεσή τους και παραβιάσεις της ιδιωτικής ζωής των παιδιών. Νωρίτερα αυτή την εβδομάδα, το The Verge ανέφερε ότι το Facebook είχε εντοπίσει ένα σφάλμα στην εφαρμογή Messenger Kids which allowed users under the age of 13 to start group chats with adults.
EPIC has filed multiple complaints against Facebook over its privacy practices companys. The group also says there are more than 26.000 other complaints against Facebook since 2011, when the company signed a consent decree with the FTC that was supposed to stop the same violations. According to the New York Times. there were 8.000 complaints filed by consumers in 2018 alone.
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