{"id":67690,"date":"2019-07-12T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67690"},"modified":"2019-07-12T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T22:17:17","slug":"ftc-reportedly-hits-facebook-with-record-5-billion-settlement-lapowsky-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/07\/12\/ftc-reportedly-hits-facebook-with-record-5-billion-settlement-lapowsky-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC reportedly hits Facebook with record $5 billion settlement [Lapowsky &#038; Kelly]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/facebook-ftc-fine-five-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FTC reportedly hits Facebook with record $5 billion settlement<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wired.com by Issie Lapowsky and Caitlin Kelly<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"lede\">AFTER MONTHS OF\u00a0<\/span>negotiations, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a record-setting $5 billion on Friday for privacy violations, according to multiple reports. The penalty comes after an investigation that lasted over a year, and marks the largest in the agency\u2019s history by\u00a0an order of magnitude. If approved by the Justice Department&#8217;s civil division, it will also be the first substantive punishment for Facebook in the US, where the tech industry has gone largely unregulated. But Washington has taken a harsher stance toward Silicon Valley lately, and Friday\u2019s announcement marks its most aggressive action yet to curb its privacy overreaches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90376238\/facebook-gets-its-5-billion-slap-on-the-wrist-now-will-it-change-its-ways\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Facebook gets its $5 billion slap on the wrist. Now will it change its ways?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from fastcompany.com by Ruth Reader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC reportedly hits Facebook with record $5 billion settlement &#8212; from wired.com by Issie Lapowsky and Caitlin Kelly Excerpt: AFTER MONTHS OF\u00a0negotiations, the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a record-setting $5 billion on Friday for privacy violations, according to multiple reports. The penalty comes after an investigation that lasted over a year, and marks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[816,500,55,825,285,166,105,480,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-internet","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-society","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67690"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67694,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67690\/revisions\/67694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}