On April 23, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld the settlement reached last July for sanctions brought by the FTC against Facebook for privacy violations that have spanned nearly eight years. Judge Timothy Kelly upheld the largest penalty ever won by the FTC, but the settlement also requires Facebook to take additional measures to protect usersâ personal information. The opinion lists 11 different remedial steps Facebook must take, including âclearly disclosingâ any time it shares personal information  with third parties and obtaining express consent, ceasing âa host ofâ misrepresentations about its collection and use of usersâ personal information, and creating a committee, independent of Facebookâs board of directors to oversee the implementation of the new privacy efforts. Read more here.
