Posted on 07/12/2019 4:42:39 PM PDT by navysealdad
The Federal Trade Commission voted this week to approve a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook that could end an investigation into its privacy practices, according to a person familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record, a deal that could result in unprecedented government oversight of the company.
The settlement -- adopted with the FTCs three Republicans supporting it and two Democrats against it -- could end a wide-ranging probe into Facebooks mishandling of users personal information that began more than a year ago.
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Payoff.
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“Payoff.”
The corruption of our government is astounding. The new replacement population won’t care though.
How much of this money goes to the victims?
How much of that will go to those whose privacy was violated?
Use the money to build the wall.
Hopefully Trump can take it and use it to built some more wall!!!!
Won’t actually be a fine. It will be a show of a transfer of payment to the Government, funneled into the CIA Black Budget, and then right back out to Facebook, to continue their CIA sponsored surveillance of their users.
I would say this is bad news given that facebook stock is up on the deal
And how much of that goes to the users?
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I want my reparations!
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