Facebook Won't Go To Congress' Teen Privacy Briefing

Facebook has turned down an invitation to appear at a December 14 congressional briefing on teen privacy, where the company were asked to discuss the company's recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

Facebook has turned down an invitation to appear at a December 14 congressional briefing on teen privacy, where the company were asked to discuss the company’s recent settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

The move by the social network is a head scratcher, since Facebook’s own Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg already discussed the FTC settlement in a blog post on the social network.

At the time, Zuckerberg said that Facebook is committed to giving its users “complete control” over what they share and with whom.

The company also agreed to 20 years’ of privacy audits, personnel appointments and the addition of new privacy features to the site, some of which had already been in place.

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