{"id":49589,"date":"2012-05-09T07:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49589"},"modified":"2012-05-09T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T06:00:26","slug":"myspace-settles-privacy-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/49589-myspace-settles-privacy-probe.html","title":{"rendered":"Myspace settles privacy probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Myspace\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/384023-Myspace\">Myspace<\/a>, the once mighty social network, has settled a privacy investigation by the <a title=\"Federal Trade Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/380969-FTC-Federal-Trade-Commission\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> and agreed to submit to privacy audits over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement, over charges that Myspace misrepresented its privacy policies to users, is similar to a deal the FTC struck with Facebook in November.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC says that despite telling users it would not share personally identifiable information with others, Myspace gave users&#8217; &#8220;Friend ID&#8221; numbers to advertisers. That allowed advertisers to find users&#8217; publicly available personal information, often including full names. It could even lead advertisers to discover users&#8217; web-browsing activity.<\/p>\n<p>In the settlement, Myspace agreed not to misrepresent its privacy policies, to implement a comprehensive privacy program and to submit to regular, independent privacy assessments for two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myspace, the once mighty social network, has settled a privacy investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and agreed to submit to privacy audits over the next 20 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":25433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,9938,1687],"class_list":["post-49589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-ftc","tag-myspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589"}],"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=49589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}