{"id":39029,"date":"2011-11-29T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39029"},"modified":"2011-11-30T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T08:02:42","slug":"facebook-deception-case-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/39029-facebook-deception-case-settled.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook deception case settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> says it is settling with the <a title=\"FTC - Federal Trade Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/380969-FTC-Federal-Trade-Commission\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> over charges it deceived consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC had charged that the social network told people they could keep the information they share private, then allowed it to be made public.<\/p>\n<p>The charges go back to 2009, when Facebook changed its privacy settings to make public information that users may have deemed private. This included their list of friends, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC says the settlement requires Facebook to get people&#8217;s approval before changing how it shares their data.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post, Facebook CEO <a title=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362086-Mark-Zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> said the company has made a &#8220;bunch of mistakes.&#8221; But he adds that this has often overshadowed the good work Facebook has done. He says Facebook has addressed many of the FTC&#8217;s concerns already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook says it is settling with the Federal Trade Commission over charges it deceived consumers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":24707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,1767],"class_list":["post-39029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39031,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029\/revisions\/39031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}