consent decree that the company signed in 2011 that required users to be notified when their data was being shared by Facebook with third parties. After the scandal erupted in 2018 over whether political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had been able to access data of 87 million Facebook users without their permission, the Federal Trade Commission got a $5 billion settlement from the company over violating the first agreement. Even though it was a landmark figure in the U.S., I called the fine a “parking ticket,” since it’s hard to imagine that Facebook’s executives saw the payment as
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