Following reports that the Federal Trade Commission is still contemplating and negotiating penalties for Facebook’s breach of an earlier data privacy-related consent order, Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have written to FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, urging his Commission “to act swiftly to conclude its investigation and move to compel sweeping changes to end the social network’s pattern of misuse and abuse of personal data.”
“This investigation has been long delayed in conclusion, raising the specter of a remedy that is too little too late,” the two legislators wrote. “The Facebook consent decree violations have been blatant and brazen, an offensive defiance that adds insult to injury. The public is rightly asking whether Facebook is too big to be held accountable.”
