{"id":19839,"date":"2012-08-11T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=19839"},"modified":"2012-08-11T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:28:47","slug":"ftc-comes-to-a-decision-with-facebook-privacy-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/19839\/ftc-comes-to-a-decision-with-facebook-privacy-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC comes to a decision with Facebook privacy issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission Friday gave the final approval to a settlement of federal charges reached last year over Facebook Inc deceiving consumers and forcing them to share more personal information than they had intended.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement requires Facebook to get user consent for some changes to privacy settings and subjects the social networking site to 20 years of independent audits.<\/p>\n<p>That settlement was reached last November but was subject to a public comment period and final vote by the FTC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/19629\/facebook-intros-real-money-gambling\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facebook intros real-money gambling<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/19027\/facebooks-balancing-act\/\"><strong>Facebook\u2019s balancing act<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/19224\/local-investors-shun-facebook\/\"><strong>Local investors shun Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Facebook value down $10 billion, outlook unclear\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/18962\/facebook-value-down-10-billion-outlook-unclear\/\">Facebook value down $10 billion, outlook unclear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to Facebook begins to show its cracks\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/55897-facebook-begins-to-show-its-cracks.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook begins to show its cracks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FTC and Facebook have come to a settlement with regards to the social network&#8217;s privacy settings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,45,2979,3839],"class_list":["post-19839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-ftc","tag-privacy-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19851,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions\/19851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}