The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authoritatively rebuffed Facebook with a $5 billion fine for the Cambridge Analytics outrage and further information misfortune.
At last, the FTC led on the Cambridge Analytica outrage and the resulting loss of client information by Facebook. The understanding, formalized today, obliges the interpersonal organization to pay a fine of 5 billion US dollars and pursue the accompanying guidelines:
- Make privacy changes to avoid similar incidents in the future
- Prohibit access to the platform by developers who do not comply with the new privacy policy
- Create a new committee focused on privacy risks
In an announcement distributed on his interpersonal organization, CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed that the organization will analyze its system and make new controls to advance more noteworthy protection.
We’ve formally reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission about privacy. We’ve agreed to pay a historic fine, but even more important, we’re going to make some major structural changes to how we build products and run this company.
By Mark Zuckerberg
We have a responsibility to protect people’s privacy. We already work hard to live up to this responsibility, but now we’re going to set a completely new standard for our industry.
As part of this settlement, we’re bringing our privacy controls more in line with our financial controls under the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation. Our executives, including me, will have to certify that all of the work we oversee meets our privacy commitments. Just as we have an audit committee of our board to oversee our financial controls, we’ll set up a new privacy committee of our board that will oversee our privacy program. We’ve also asked one of our most experienced product leaders to take on the role of Chief Privacy Officer for Products.
To implement this, we’ll have to review our technical systems to document any privacy risks and how we’re handling them. Going forward, when we ship a new feature that uses data, or modify an existing feature to use data in new ways, we’ll have to document any risks and the steps we’re taking to mitigate them. We expect it will take hundreds of engineers and more than a thousand people across our company to do this important work. And we expect it will take longer to build new products following this process going forward.
Overall, these changes go beyond anything required under US law today. The reason I support them is that I believe they will reduce the number of mistakes we make and help us deliver stronger privacy protections for everyone.
As we build our privacy-focused vision for the future of social networking that I outlined earlier this year, it’s critical we get this right. The next focus for our company is to build privacy protections as strong as the best services we provide. I’m committed to doing this well and delivering the best private social platform for our community.
Facebook in this manner affirmed the understanding through its official blog, wherein it expressed that it will do quarterly checks to guarantee that protection controls work appropriately.
While this is the second-biggest fine at any point issued by the American underwriter, numerous law based agents accept that the sum isn’t sufficient. Some state that this decision does not take care of the key issues that prompted these infringement.
