FTC says Facebook violated privacy order, proposes ban on monetizing youth data

Facebook has not been doing enough to comply with a 2020 privacy order, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday. On top of “continuing to give app developers access to users' private information” that Meta claimed had been cut off, the FTC alleges that Facebook has caused new harms. Perhaps most alarming, the FTC alleges that Facebook’s Messenger Kids product misled parents on who could connect to chat with minors and misrepresented who had access to private youth data. Now, the FTC has proposed changes to the 2020 order that would prohibit Facebook owner Meta from launching new products on…