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NEWS
What Facebook’s new
government-enforced privacy
restrictions mean for you
Facebook must comply with new privacy restrictions on how it handles your data.
Here’s what they are and how they’ll apply to you. BY MARK HACHMAN
acebook’s record $5 billion fine that agreement is primarily intended to stem the
it will pay to the Federal Trade tide of your data flowing through Facebook
Commission will do little to stop and out to third-party developers.
F Facebook from trying to slurp up as In late July, Facebook agreed to pay a
much of your data as it can, with two $5 billion fine and submit to a 20-year
exceptions: facial recognition and telephone oversight program as part of an FTC order
numbers. Instead, the Facebook-FTC (go.pcworld.com/ftcr) agreed to by both
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