Facebook Settles Privacy Case, Says It Made a 'Bunch of Mistakes'

Facebook has settled its privacy case with the Federal Trade Commission, which has been ongoing since 2009. The case stems from a change in Facebook’s privacy settings that year that made once private info public without warning. The company isn’t paying anything as part of the settlement, but, like Google, which settled its own privacy case, must have its privacy standards assessed by an outside group for the next 20 years and requires the social network to get the OK from people before it makes changes.