Facebook's Rumored Privacy Settlement With FTC Is Much Ado About Nothing

When William Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing, he certainly didn't have Friday's published reports about a rumored settlement between Facebook and the U.S. government over privacy concerns in mind, but the title fits.

When William Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing, he certainly didn’t have Friday’s published reports about a rumored settlement between Facebook and the U.S. government over privacy concerns in mind, but the title fits.

The Wall Street Journal reported that only Federal Trade Commission approval stands between a deal between the social network and the government, in which Facebook agreed to obtain the consent of its users before making “material retroactive changes” to its privacy policies, or sharing data in different ways than users originally agreed to.

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