US regulators may ban Facebook from monetizing data from children
by Kari Paul and agency from Technology | The Guardian on (#6BDT4)
Federal Trade Commission says network has repeatedly violated its privacy promises' and misled parents over children's message app
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is accusing Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and is proposing to tighten an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban on profiting from minors' data.
The FTC said on Wednesday that Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact with in the Messenger Kids app and was deceptive about how much access app developers had to users' private data, breaching a 2019 agreement on privacy.
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