There was lots of talk this week about Facebook's 2011 “consent decree” with the FTC. What's it mean? And why should you care? We break it down.

Facebook fears no FTC fine. In April, seeing the writing on the wall and perhaps privy to some of the conversations, Facebook set aside $3 billion to cover the costs of the settlement it knew was ...

Facebook’s $5 billion settlement with the FTC is a done deal, but what will it mean for users? Not much will change for consumers, experts say.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google execs testify on Capitol Hill 04:51. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) slapped Facebook with a $5 billion fine over its role in allowing Cambridge Analytica to ...

The FTC is looking to see whether Facebook violated terms of a 2011 consent order in which the Menlo Park company agreed to get users’ permission for certain changes to privacy settings.

The FTC’s amended suit, which comes two months after a federal judge dismissed an earlier version, seeks to force Facebook to restructure or sell off assets including Instagram and WhatsApp.

Facebook too could be made to shell out in this indirect way. What the FTC is capable of requiring from Facebook is an open question, since the scale and nature of these violations are unprecedented.

The FTC on Wednesday said it is proposing changes to the privacy order that would prohibit Meta, Facebook's parent company, from profiting from data from users under 18.

The FTC also said Facebook, from late 2017 until 2019, "misrepresented that parents could control whom their children communicated with through its Messenger Kids product." ...

MeWe, you say? I've never heard of it! Part of the FTC's complaint says that between 2012 and 2020, Facebook was hugely dominant in the space of "personal social networking" (the kind of social ...