Hawley Blasts Facebook And FTC; Wants Policy Change Over Fines

Creeped out and disappointed! Facebook will be forking over $5 billion for violating it’s own privacy policies, but U.S Senator Josh Hawley says that isn’t good enough. The Senator tweeted his disappointment.

“This is very disappointing. This settlement does nothing to change Facebook’s creepy surveillance of its own users & the misuse of user data. It does nothing to hold executives accountable. It utterly fails to penalize Facebook in any effective way.”

The Federal Trade Commission announces a settlement Wednesday, representing the largest fine ever imposed by the FTC against a tech company.

The FTC began probing Facebook in March 2018 following reports that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly accessed the data of 87 million Facebook users.