Official Facebook was fined 5 billion US dollars by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This fine was dropped for the Cambridge Analytica scandal which harmed no fewer than 87 million Facebook users.
In addition to fines, the FTC will also tighten supervision of Facebook regarding the use of user data, especially those relating to third party applications.
Facebook also began to adjust to these rules. "Recently, third-party applications have told us about a bug that directed us to conduct an investigation and found that, unfortunately, our code base allows for continued access to some of these partners," wrote Ime Archibong, VP of Product Partnerships Facebook.
The two partners include Microsoft and Sony.
The two companies were revealed to still continue limited access to friend data, which is used to play PlayStation or synchronize friend contact information with other services.
Archibong said that there were indeed no findings of violations of Facebook's policies from this access, but his side would still restrict its partners. "Based on previous commitments, we ended our partners 'access to friends' data as soon as possible. This is our fault and we will correct it," Archibong added.
Furthermore, Archibong boasted that Facebook would use a new framework to improve privacy and user information. "It requires a fundamental change in the way we work," Archibong wrote, reported by Cnet, Saturday (07/27/2019).
Facebook will do several things to improve privacy security. Starting from introducing a new way to manage applications that users use with Facebook. They also promise gifts to those who notify them of misuse of data by the developer.
Facebook will also implement a new review process for each new API and expansion of existing APIs. Also read: Official Facebook, Largest in History On the other hand, Microsoft representatives only said they respected every decision of user preferences while using Facebook.
There has been no response from Sony when this news was written. Archibong said, under the supervision of the FTC, Facebook would be more responsible and transparent about old products that did not work properly.
In addition to a fine of 5 billion US dollars, Facebook also received a penalty of 100 million US dollars from the Securities Exchange Commission related to user data privacy.
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