If Person A downloads an app, that app shouldn’t be able to suck data from Person B just because they’re friends, right? In 2014, Facebook cited privacy concerns and promised it would limit access to developers. The FTC action will ensure it will not."Īs part of the agreement in 2011, Facebook remains liable for a $16,000-per-day penalty for violating each count of the settlement.įacebook’s response: Please keep building apps "Facebook's innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy. "Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users," Jon Leibowitz, then chairman of the FTC, said at the time. Facebook was also charged with sharing user information with advertisers, despite a promise they wouldn’t. Facebook users that never authenticated a third-party app could even have private posts collected if their friends used apps. In fact, the apps could access nearly all of a user’s personal data.
Regulators said Facebook falsely claimed that third-party apps were able to access only the data they needed to operate. Facebook settled with the Federal Trade Commission in 2011 over charges that it didn't keep its privacy promise to users by allowing private information to be made public without warning.
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