The FTC has not opened a formal investigation...
The FTC has not opened a formal investigation into Facebook’s recently changed data use policy, an agency spokesman told us. The company recently told users it was going to alter the language in its data use policy, which provoked privacy…
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advocates to ask the FTC to investigate whether the changes would violate its 2011 privacy settlement with the company. “As in all cases, we're monitoring compliance with the Order, and part of that involves interacting with Facebook,” the FTC spokesman said in a statement. On Wednesday, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., urged the FTC to investigate. “The proposed changes indicate that while the previous policy language offers Facebook users the explicit right to control how their names, faces, and other information are used for advertising and commercial purposes, that through the new policy, consumers would automatically cede to Facebook the right to use their information unless they expressly revoke permission,” Markey wrote: “I would like to know whether the FTC views Facebook’s plans to be a violation of the settlement agreement and what actions the Commission has taken or plans to take to investigate whether Facebook’s proposed changes to its privacy policy violate the agreement” it has with the FTC.