FTC proposes tightening 2020 privacy order with Meta

The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta’s Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children, in breach of a 2019 agreement on privacy, and proposed tightening the order.

Specifically, the FTC said 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.

The FTC’s proposed changes include barring Facebook from making money off data collected on users under age 18, including in its virtual reality business. It would also face expanded limitation on using facial recognition technology.