Meta pushes back on US FTC’s attempt to amend 2020 privacy settlement

Meta Platforms has rebuffed an attempt by the US Federal Trade Commission to amend a 2020 privacy settlement, noting that it had voluntarily disclosed two technical errors related to its Messenger Kids app to the agency.

Meta disclosed the bugs in July 2019, the Facebook-parent said in a filing on Thursday, adding it had spent $5.5 billion on its privacy program and related privacy initiatives.

The FTC did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. In question is an existing 2020 Facebook privacy settlement to ban profiting from minors’ data and expand curbs on facial recognition technology. The FTC has said it wants to tighten the settlement.