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\"patterns of life,\" according to thousands of pages of records about the company.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Bennett Cyphers, special advisor, Electronic Frontier Foundation\"]'It's sort of a mass surveillance program on a budget.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog Reveal has been used since at least 2018 in criminal investigations ranging from the murder of a nurse in Arkansas to the movements of a potential participant in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The tool is rarely, if ever, mentioned in court records, something that defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was developed by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials under former President George W. Bush. It relies on advertising identification numbers, which Fog officials say are culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person's movements and interests, according to police emails. That information is then sold to companies like Fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's sort of a mass surveillance program on a budget,\" said Bennett Cyphers, a special advisor at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents and emails were obtained by EFF through Freedom of Information Act requests. The group shared the files with AP, which independently found that Fog sold its software in about 40 contracts to nearly two dozen agencies, according to GovSpend, a company that keeps tabs on government spending. The records and AP's reporting provide the first public account of the extensive use of Fog Reveal by local police, according to analysts and legal experts who scrutinize such technologies.[aside postID=\"forum_2010101889275\" label=\"Related Post\"]Federal oversight of companies like Fog is an evolving legal landscape. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission sued a data broker called Kochava that, like Fog, provides its clients with advertising IDs that authorities say can easily be used to find where a mobile device user lives, which violates rules the commission enforces. And there are bills before Congress now that, if passed, would regulate the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Local law enforcement is at the front lines of trafficking and missing persons cases, yet these departments are often behind in technology adoption,\" Matthew Broderick, a Fog managing partner, said in an email. \"We fill a gap for underfunded and understaffed departments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the secrecy surrounding Fog, however, there are scant details about its use, and most law enforcement agencies won't discuss it, raising concerns among privacy advocates that it violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What distinguishes Fog Reveal from other cellphone location technologies used by police is that it follows the devices through their advertising IDs, unique numbers assigned to each device. These numbers do not contain the name of the phone's user, but can be traced to homes and workplaces to help police establish pattern-of-life analyses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The capability that it had for bringing up just anybody in an area whether they were in public or at home seemed to me to be a very clear violation of the Fourth Amendment,\" said Davin Hall, a former crime data analysis supervisor for the Greensboro, North Carolina, Police Department. \"I just feel angry and betrayed and lied to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall resigned in late 2020 after months of voicing concerns about the department's use of Fog to police attorneys and the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Greensboro officials acknowledged Fog's use and initially defended it, the police department said it allowed its subscription to expire earlier this year because it didn't \"independently benefit investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability. Local police agencies have been enticed by Fog's affordable price: It can start as low as $7,500 a year. And some departments that license it have shared access with other nearby law enforcement agencies, the emails show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments also like how quickly they can access detailed location information from Fog. Geofence warrants, which tap into GPS and other sources to track a device, are accessed by obtaining such data from companies, like Google or Apple. This requires police to obtain a warrant and ask the tech companies for the specific data they want, which can take days or weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using Fog's data, which the company claims is anonymized, police can geofence an area or search by a specific device's ad ID numbers, according to a user agreement obtained by AP. But, Fog maintains that \"we have no way of linking signals back to a specific device or owner,\" according to a sales representative who emailed the California Highway Patrol in 2018, after a lieutenant asked whether the tool could be legally used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite such privacy assurances, the records show that law enforcement can use Fog's data as a clue to find identifying information. \"There is no (personal information) linked to the (ad ID),\" wrote a Missouri official about Fog in 2019. \"But if we are good at what we do, we should be able to figure out the owner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog's Broderick said in an email that the company does not have access to people's personal information, and draws from \"commercially available data without restrictions to use,\" from data brokers \"that legitimately purchase data from apps in accordance with their legal agreements.\" The company refused to share information about how many police agencies it works with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are confident Law Enforcement has the responsible leadership, constraints, and political guidance at the municipal, state, and federal level to ensure that any law enforcement tool and method is appropriately used in accordance with the laws in their respective jurisdictions,\" Broderick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Fog aids police investigations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kevin Metcalf, a prosecutor in Washington County, Arkansas, said he has used Fog Reveal without a warrant, especially in \"exigent circumstances.\" In these cases, the law provides a warrant exemption when a crime-in-process endangers people or an officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metcalf also leads the National Child Protection Task Force, a nonprofit that combats child exploitation and trafficking. Fog is listed on its website as a task force sponsor, and a company executive chairs the nonprofit's board. Metcalf said Fog has been invaluable to cracking missing children cases and homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We push the limits, but we do them in a way that we target the bad guys,\" he said. \"Time is of the essence in those situations. We can't wait on the traditional search warrant route.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog was used successfully in the murder case of 25-year-old nurse Sydney Sutherland, who had last been seen jogging near Newport, Arkansas, before she disappeared, Metcalf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had little evidence to go on when they found her phone in a ditch, so Metcalf said he shared his agency's access to Fog with the U.S. Marshals Service to figure out which other devices had been nearby at the time she was killed. He said Fog helped lead authorities to arrest a farmer in Sutherland's rape and murder in August 2020, but its use was not documented in court records reviewed by AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyphers, who led EFF's public records work, said there hasn't been any previous record of companies selling this kind of granular data directly to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing counties with less than 100,000 people where the sheriff is using this extremely high-tech, extremely invasive, secretive surveillance tool to chase down local crime,\" Cyphers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such customer is the sheriff's office in rural Rockingham County, North Carolina, population 91,000 and just north of Greensboro, where Hall still lives. The county bought a one-year license for $9,000 last year and recently renewed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rockingham County is tiny in terms of population. It never ceases to amaze me how small agencies will scoop up tools that they just absolutely don't need, and nobody needs this one,\" Hall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's spokesperson Lt. Kevin Suthard confirmed the department recently renewed its license but declined to offer specifics about the use of Fog Reveal or how the office protects individuals' rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it would then be less effective as criminals could be cognizant that we have the device and adjust their commission of the crimes accordingly. Make sense?\" Suthard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog has aggressively marketed its tool to police, even beta testing it with law enforcement, records show. The Dallas Police Department bought a Fog license in February after getting a free trial and \"seeing a demonstration and hearing of success stories from the company,\" Senior Cpl. Melinda Gutierrez, a department spokesperson, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog's tool is accessed through a web portal. Investigators can enter a crime scene's coordinates into the database, which brings back search results showing a device's Fog ID, which is based on its unique ad ID number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police can see which device IDs were found near the location of the crime. Detectives or other officers can also search the location for IDs going forward from the time of the crime and back at least 180 days, according to the company's user license agreement. But, Fog's data can go back as far as June 2017, according to emails from a Fog representative to Florida and California law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the data does not directly identify who owns a device, the company often gives law enforcement information it needs to connect it to addresses and other clues that help detectives figure out people's identities, according to company representatives' emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how Fog makes these connections, but a company it refers to as its \"data partner\" called Venntel Inc. has access to an even greater trove of users' mobile data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venntel is a large broker that has supplied location data to agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI. The Department of Homeland Security's watchdog is auditing how the offices under its control have used commercial data. That comes after some Democratic lawmakers asked it to investigate U.S. Customs and Border Protection's use of Venntel data to track people without a search warrant in 2020. The company also has faced congressional inquiries about privacy concerns tied to federal law enforcement agencies' use of its data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venntel and Fog work closely together to aid police detectives during investigations, emails show. Their marketing brochures are nearly identical, too, and Venntel staff have recommended Fog to law enforcement, according to the emails. Venntel said \"the confidential nature of our business relationships\" prevented it from responding to AP's specific questions, and Fog would not comment on the relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Fog says in its marketing materials that it collects data from thousands of apps, like Starbucks and Waze, companies are not always aware of who is using their data. Venntel and Fog can collect billions of data points filled with detailed information because many apps embed invisible tracking software that follows users' behavior. This software also lets the apps sell customized ads that are targeted to a person's current location. In turn, data brokers' software can hoover up personal data that can be used for other purposes. Fog did not specifically say how it got the data from Starbucks and Waze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, Starbucks and Waze denied any relationship to Fog. Starbucks said it had not given permission to its business partners to share customer information with Fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Starbucks has not approved Ad ID data generated by our app to be used in this way by Fog Data Science LLC. In our review to date, we have no relationship with this company,\" said Megan Adams, a Starbucks spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have never had a relationship with Fog Data Science, have not worked with them in any capacity, and have not shared information with them,\" a Waze spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Predicting crime hot spots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fog Data Science LLC is headquartered in a nondescript brick building in Leesburg, Virginia. It also has related entities in New Jersey, Ohio and Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was founded in 2016 by Robert Liscouski, who led the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division in the George W. Bush administration. His colleague, Broderick, is a former U.S. Marine brigadier general who ran DHS's tech hub, the Homeland Security Operations Center, during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A House bipartisan committee report cited Broderick among others for failing to coordinate a swift federal response to the deadly hurricane. Broderick resigned from DHS shortly thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In marketing materials, Fog also has touted its ability to offer police \"predictive analytics,\" a buzzword often used to describe high-tech policing tools that purport to predict crime hot spots. Liscouski and another Fog official have worked at companies focused on predictive analytics, machine learning and software platforms supporting artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is capable of delivering both forensic and predictive analytics and near real-time insights on the daily movements of the people identified with those mobile devices,\" reads an email announcing a Fog training last year for members of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents a network of intelligence-sharing partnerships created after the Sept. 11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog's Broderick said the company had not invested in predictive applications, and provided no details about any uses the tool had for predicting crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite privacy advocates' concerns about warrantless surveillance, Fog Reveal has caught on with local and state police forces. It's been used in a number of high-profile criminal cases, including one that was the subject of the television program \"48 Hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, a world-renowned exotic snake breeder was found dead, lying in a pool of blood in his reptile breeding facility in rural Missouri. Police initially thought the breeder, Ben Renick, might have died from a poisonous snake bite. But the evidence soon pointed to murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During its investigation, emails show the Missouri State Highway Patrol used Fog's portal to search for cellphones at Renick's home and breeding facility and zeroed in on a mobile device. Working with Fog, investigators used the data to identify the phone owner's identity: It was the Renicks' babysitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were able to log the babysitter's whereabouts over time to create a pattern of life analysis. It turned out to be a dead-end lead. Renick's wife, Lynlee, later was charged and convicted of the murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors did not cite Fog in a list of other tools they used in the investigation, according to trial exhibits examined by AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Missouri officials seemed pleased with Fog's capabilities, even though it didn't directly lead to an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was interesting to see that the system did pick up a device that was absolutely in the area that day. Too bad it did not belong to a suspect!\" a Missouri State Highway Patrol analyst wrote in an email to Fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another high-profile criminal probe, records show the FBI asked state intelligence officials in Iowa for help with Fog as it investigated potential participants in the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not definitive but still waiting to talk things over with a FOG rep,\" wrote Justin Parker, deputy director of the Iowa Department of Public Safety, in an email to an FBI official in September 2021. It was unclear from the emails whether Fog's data factored into an arrest. Iowa officials did not respond and the FBI declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No expectation of privacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Metcalf, the Arkansas prosecutor, has argued against congressional efforts to require search warrants when using technologies like Fog Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes Americans have given up any reasonable expectation of privacy when they use free apps and likens EFF's objections to tech like Fog to a \"cult of privacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people are going to have to make a decision on whether we want all this free technology, we want all this free stuff, we want all the selfies,\" he said. \"But we can't have that and at the same time say, 'I'm a private person, so you can't look at any of that.' That just seems crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he is not an official Fog employee, Metcalf said he would step in to lead training sessions including the tool for federal prosecutors, federal agencies and police, including the Chicago Police Department, the emails show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of hands-on service and word-of-mouth marketing in tight-knit law enforcement circles seems to have helped increase Fog's popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maryland State Police is among the many agencies that have had contracts for Fog Reveal, and records show investigators believed it had a lot of potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Companies have receptors all over. Malls, shopping centers, etc. They're all around you,\" wrote Sgt. John Bedell of the Criminal Enforcement Division, in an email to a colleague. The agency purchased a year of access to Fog in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Picture getting a suspect's phone then in the extraction being able to see everyplace they'd been in the last 18 months plotted on a map you filter by date ranges,\" wrote Bedell. \"The success lies in the secrecy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elena Russo, a spokesperson for the agency, confirmed it had a Fog license previously but that it had lapsed. \"Unfortunately, it was not helpful in solving any crimes,\" she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as more local policing agencies sign up for Fog, some elected officials said they have been left in the dark. Several officials said there wasn't enough information to grasp what services Fog actually provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Who is this company? What are the track records? What are the privacy protections?'\" asked Anaheim council member Jose Moreno, remembering his confusion about Fog during a 2020 council meeting. \"That night our chief had very little information for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Anaheim, the Fog license was paid for by a federal \"Urban Area Security Initiative,\" a DHS grant that helps localities fund efforts to prevent terrorism. A police spokesperson said the department has not used it. Defense attorneys worry there are few legal restrictions on law enforcement's use of location data. It's a gap that police agencies exploit, and often don't disclose in court, said Michael Price, litigation director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Fourth Amendment Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Fog) is exceedingly rare to see in the wild because the cops often don't get warrants,\" said Price. \"Even if you do ask for (information), sometimes they say, 'We don't know what you are talking about.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates worry Fog's location tracking could be put to other novel uses, like keeping tabs on people who seek abortions in states where it is now illegal. These concerns were heightened when a Nebraska woman was charged in August with helping her teenage daughter end a pregnancy after investigators got hold of their Facebook messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government's use of location data is still being weighed by the courts, too. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two years after walking off the crime data analysis supervisor job with the Greensboro police force, Hall still worries about police surveillance in neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anyone with that login information can do as many searches as they want,\" Hall said. \"I don't believe the police have earned the trust to use that, and I don't believe it should be legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP National Writer Allen G. Breed contributed from Greensboro, North Carolina. Dearen reported from New York and Burke reported from San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, is part of an ongoing Associated Press series, \"Tracked,\" that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people's everyday lives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This reporting was produced in collaboration with researchers Janine Graham, Nicole Waddick and Jane Yang as well as the University of California, Berkeley's Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and School of Law.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Garance Burke and Jason Dearen on Twitter at @garanceburke and @jhdearen. Contact AP's global investigative team at investigative@ap.org or https://www.ap.org/tips/.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone-tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that empowers them to follow people's movements months back in time.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1662132251,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":77,"wordCount":3482},"headData":{"title":"Cellphone-Tracking Tool Offers Police 'Mass Surveillance on a Budget' | KQED","description":"Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone-tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that empowers them to follow people's movements months back in time.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11924380 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924380","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/09/01/cell-phone-tracking-tool-offers-police-mass-surveillance-on-a-budget/","disqusTitle":"Cellphone-Tracking Tool Offers Police 'Mass Surveillance on a Budget'","nprByline":"Garance Burke and Jason Dearen\u003cbr>The Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11924380/cell-phone-tracking-tool-offers-police-mass-surveillance-on-a-budget","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone-tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people's movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have used Fog Reveal to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among law enforcement as \"patterns of life,\" according to thousands of pages of records about the company.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's sort of a mass surveillance program on a budget.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Bennett Cyphers, special advisor, Electronic Frontier Foundation","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog Reveal has been used since at least 2018 in criminal investigations ranging from the murder of a nurse in Arkansas to the movements of a potential participant in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. The tool is rarely, if ever, mentioned in court records, something that defense attorneys say makes it harder for them to properly defend their clients in cases in which the technology was used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was developed by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials under former President George W. Bush. It relies on advertising identification numbers, which Fog officials say are culled from popular cellphone apps such as Waze, Starbucks and hundreds of others that target ads based on a person's movements and interests, according to police emails. That information is then sold to companies like Fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's sort of a mass surveillance program on a budget,\" said Bennett Cyphers, a special advisor at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital privacy rights advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents and emails were obtained by EFF through Freedom of Information Act requests. The group shared the files with AP, which independently found that Fog sold its software in about 40 contracts to nearly two dozen agencies, according to GovSpend, a company that keeps tabs on government spending. The records and AP's reporting provide the first public account of the extensive use of Fog Reveal by local police, according to analysts and legal experts who scrutinize such technologies.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101889275","label":"Related Post "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Federal oversight of companies like Fog is an evolving legal landscape. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission sued a data broker called Kochava that, like Fog, provides its clients with advertising IDs that authorities say can easily be used to find where a mobile device user lives, which violates rules the commission enforces. And there are bills before Congress now that, if passed, would regulate the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Local law enforcement is at the front lines of trafficking and missing persons cases, yet these departments are often behind in technology adoption,\" Matthew Broderick, a Fog managing partner, said in an email. \"We fill a gap for underfunded and understaffed departments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the secrecy surrounding Fog, however, there are scant details about its use, and most law enforcement agencies won't discuss it, raising concerns among privacy advocates that it violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What distinguishes Fog Reveal from other cellphone location technologies used by police is that it follows the devices through their advertising IDs, unique numbers assigned to each device. These numbers do not contain the name of the phone's user, but can be traced to homes and workplaces to help police establish pattern-of-life analyses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The capability that it had for bringing up just anybody in an area whether they were in public or at home seemed to me to be a very clear violation of the Fourth Amendment,\" said Davin Hall, a former crime data analysis supervisor for the Greensboro, North Carolina, Police Department. \"I just feel angry and betrayed and lied to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall resigned in late 2020 after months of voicing concerns about the department's use of Fog to police attorneys and the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Greensboro officials acknowledged Fog's use and initially defended it, the police department said it allowed its subscription to expire earlier this year because it didn't \"independently benefit investigations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal, state and local police agencies around the U.S. continue to use Fog with very little public accountability. Local police agencies have been enticed by Fog's affordable price: It can start as low as $7,500 a year. And some departments that license it have shared access with other nearby law enforcement agencies, the emails show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police departments also like how quickly they can access detailed location information from Fog. Geofence warrants, which tap into GPS and other sources to track a device, are accessed by obtaining such data from companies, like Google or Apple. This requires police to obtain a warrant and ask the tech companies for the specific data they want, which can take days or weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using Fog's data, which the company claims is anonymized, police can geofence an area or search by a specific device's ad ID numbers, according to a user agreement obtained by AP. But, Fog maintains that \"we have no way of linking signals back to a specific device or owner,\" according to a sales representative who emailed the California Highway Patrol in 2018, after a lieutenant asked whether the tool could be legally used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite such privacy assurances, the records show that law enforcement can use Fog's data as a clue to find identifying information. \"There is no (personal information) linked to the (ad ID),\" wrote a Missouri official about Fog in 2019. \"But if we are good at what we do, we should be able to figure out the owner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog's Broderick said in an email that the company does not have access to people's personal information, and draws from \"commercially available data without restrictions to use,\" from data brokers \"that legitimately purchase data from apps in accordance with their legal agreements.\" The company refused to share information about how many police agencies it works with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are confident Law Enforcement has the responsible leadership, constraints, and political guidance at the municipal, state, and federal level to ensure that any law enforcement tool and method is appropriately used in accordance with the laws in their respective jurisdictions,\" Broderick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Fog aids police investigations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kevin Metcalf, a prosecutor in Washington County, Arkansas, said he has used Fog Reveal without a warrant, especially in \"exigent circumstances.\" In these cases, the law provides a warrant exemption when a crime-in-process endangers people or an officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metcalf also leads the National Child Protection Task Force, a nonprofit that combats child exploitation and trafficking. Fog is listed on its website as a task force sponsor, and a company executive chairs the nonprofit's board. Metcalf said Fog has been invaluable to cracking missing children cases and homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We push the limits, but we do them in a way that we target the bad guys,\" he said. \"Time is of the essence in those situations. We can't wait on the traditional search warrant route.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog was used successfully in the murder case of 25-year-old nurse Sydney Sutherland, who had last been seen jogging near Newport, Arkansas, before she disappeared, Metcalf said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had little evidence to go on when they found her phone in a ditch, so Metcalf said he shared his agency's access to Fog with the U.S. Marshals Service to figure out which other devices had been nearby at the time she was killed. He said Fog helped lead authorities to arrest a farmer in Sutherland's rape and murder in August 2020, but its use was not documented in court records reviewed by AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyphers, who led EFF's public records work, said there hasn't been any previous record of companies selling this kind of granular data directly to local law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're seeing counties with less than 100,000 people where the sheriff is using this extremely high-tech, extremely invasive, secretive surveillance tool to chase down local crime,\" Cyphers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such customer is the sheriff's office in rural Rockingham County, North Carolina, population 91,000 and just north of Greensboro, where Hall still lives. The county bought a one-year license for $9,000 last year and recently renewed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rockingham County is tiny in terms of population. It never ceases to amaze me how small agencies will scoop up tools that they just absolutely don't need, and nobody needs this one,\" Hall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's spokesperson Lt. Kevin Suthard confirmed the department recently renewed its license but declined to offer specifics about the use of Fog Reveal or how the office protects individuals' rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because it would then be less effective as criminals could be cognizant that we have the device and adjust their commission of the crimes accordingly. Make sense?\" Suthard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog has aggressively marketed its tool to police, even beta testing it with law enforcement, records show. The Dallas Police Department bought a Fog license in February after getting a free trial and \"seeing a demonstration and hearing of success stories from the company,\" Senior Cpl. Melinda Gutierrez, a department spokesperson, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog's tool is accessed through a web portal. Investigators can enter a crime scene's coordinates into the database, which brings back search results showing a device's Fog ID, which is based on its unique ad ID number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police can see which device IDs were found near the location of the crime. Detectives or other officers can also search the location for IDs going forward from the time of the crime and back at least 180 days, according to the company's user license agreement. But, Fog's data can go back as far as June 2017, according to emails from a Fog representative to Florida and California law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the data does not directly identify who owns a device, the company often gives law enforcement information it needs to connect it to addresses and other clues that help detectives figure out people's identities, according to company representatives' emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how Fog makes these connections, but a company it refers to as its \"data partner\" called Venntel Inc. has access to an even greater trove of users' mobile data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venntel is a large broker that has supplied location data to agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI. The Department of Homeland Security's watchdog is auditing how the offices under its control have used commercial data. That comes after some Democratic lawmakers asked it to investigate U.S. Customs and Border Protection's use of Venntel data to track people without a search warrant in 2020. The company also has faced congressional inquiries about privacy concerns tied to federal law enforcement agencies' use of its data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venntel and Fog work closely together to aid police detectives during investigations, emails show. Their marketing brochures are nearly identical, too, and Venntel staff have recommended Fog to law enforcement, according to the emails. Venntel said \"the confidential nature of our business relationships\" prevented it from responding to AP's specific questions, and Fog would not comment on the relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Fog says in its marketing materials that it collects data from thousands of apps, like Starbucks and Waze, companies are not always aware of who is using their data. Venntel and Fog can collect billions of data points filled with detailed information because many apps embed invisible tracking software that follows users' behavior. This software also lets the apps sell customized ads that are targeted to a person's current location. In turn, data brokers' software can hoover up personal data that can be used for other purposes. Fog did not specifically say how it got the data from Starbucks and Waze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their part, Starbucks and Waze denied any relationship to Fog. Starbucks said it had not given permission to its business partners to share customer information with Fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Starbucks has not approved Ad ID data generated by our app to be used in this way by Fog Data Science LLC. In our review to date, we have no relationship with this company,\" said Megan Adams, a Starbucks spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have never had a relationship with Fog Data Science, have not worked with them in any capacity, and have not shared information with them,\" a Waze spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Predicting crime hot spots\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fog Data Science LLC is headquartered in a nondescript brick building in Leesburg, Virginia. It also has related entities in New Jersey, Ohio and Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was founded in 2016 by Robert Liscouski, who led the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division in the George W. Bush administration. His colleague, Broderick, is a former U.S. Marine brigadier general who ran DHS's tech hub, the Homeland Security Operations Center, during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A House bipartisan committee report cited Broderick among others for failing to coordinate a swift federal response to the deadly hurricane. Broderick resigned from DHS shortly thereafter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In marketing materials, Fog also has touted its ability to offer police \"predictive analytics,\" a buzzword often used to describe high-tech policing tools that purport to predict crime hot spots. Liscouski and another Fog official have worked at companies focused on predictive analytics, machine learning and software platforms supporting artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is capable of delivering both forensic and predictive analytics and near real-time insights on the daily movements of the people identified with those mobile devices,\" reads an email announcing a Fog training last year for members of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents a network of intelligence-sharing partnerships created after the Sept. 11 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fog's Broderick said the company had not invested in predictive applications, and provided no details about any uses the tool had for predicting crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite privacy advocates' concerns about warrantless surveillance, Fog Reveal has caught on with local and state police forces. It's been used in a number of high-profile criminal cases, including one that was the subject of the television program \"48 Hours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, a world-renowned exotic snake breeder was found dead, lying in a pool of blood in his reptile breeding facility in rural Missouri. Police initially thought the breeder, Ben Renick, might have died from a poisonous snake bite. But the evidence soon pointed to murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During its investigation, emails show the Missouri State Highway Patrol used Fog's portal to search for cellphones at Renick's home and breeding facility and zeroed in on a mobile device. Working with Fog, investigators used the data to identify the phone owner's identity: It was the Renicks' babysitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were able to log the babysitter's whereabouts over time to create a pattern of life analysis. It turned out to be a dead-end lead. Renick's wife, Lynlee, later was charged and convicted of the murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors did not cite Fog in a list of other tools they used in the investigation, according to trial exhibits examined by AP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Missouri officials seemed pleased with Fog's capabilities, even though it didn't directly lead to an arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was interesting to see that the system did pick up a device that was absolutely in the area that day. Too bad it did not belong to a suspect!\" a Missouri State Highway Patrol analyst wrote in an email to Fog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another high-profile criminal probe, records show the FBI asked state intelligence officials in Iowa for help with Fog as it investigated potential participants in the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not definitive but still waiting to talk things over with a FOG rep,\" wrote Justin Parker, deputy director of the Iowa Department of Public Safety, in an email to an FBI official in September 2021. It was unclear from the emails whether Fog's data factored into an arrest. Iowa officials did not respond and the FBI declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No expectation of privacy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Metcalf, the Arkansas prosecutor, has argued against congressional efforts to require search warrants when using technologies like Fog Reveal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He believes Americans have given up any reasonable expectation of privacy when they use free apps and likens EFF's objections to tech like Fog to a \"cult of privacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think people are going to have to make a decision on whether we want all this free technology, we want all this free stuff, we want all the selfies,\" he said. \"But we can't have that and at the same time say, 'I'm a private person, so you can't look at any of that.' That just seems crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he is not an official Fog employee, Metcalf said he would step in to lead training sessions including the tool for federal prosecutors, federal agencies and police, including the Chicago Police Department, the emails show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of hands-on service and word-of-mouth marketing in tight-knit law enforcement circles seems to have helped increase Fog's popularity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Maryland State Police is among the many agencies that have had contracts for Fog Reveal, and records show investigators believed it had a lot of potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Companies have receptors all over. Malls, shopping centers, etc. They're all around you,\" wrote Sgt. John Bedell of the Criminal Enforcement Division, in an email to a colleague. The agency purchased a year of access to Fog in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Picture getting a suspect's phone then in the extraction being able to see everyplace they'd been in the last 18 months plotted on a map you filter by date ranges,\" wrote Bedell. \"The success lies in the secrecy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elena Russo, a spokesperson for the agency, confirmed it had a Fog license previously but that it had lapsed. \"Unfortunately, it was not helpful in solving any crimes,\" she wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as more local policing agencies sign up for Fog, some elected officials said they have been left in the dark. Several officials said there wasn't enough information to grasp what services Fog actually provides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Who is this company? What are the track records? What are the privacy protections?'\" asked Anaheim council member Jose Moreno, remembering his confusion about Fog during a 2020 council meeting. \"That night our chief had very little information for us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Anaheim, the Fog license was paid for by a federal \"Urban Area Security Initiative,\" a DHS grant that helps localities fund efforts to prevent terrorism. A police spokesperson said the department has not used it. Defense attorneys worry there are few legal restrictions on law enforcement's use of location data. It's a gap that police agencies exploit, and often don't disclose in court, said Michael Price, litigation director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Fourth Amendment Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Fog) is exceedingly rare to see in the wild because the cops often don't get warrants,\" said Price. \"Even if you do ask for (information), sometimes they say, 'We don't know what you are talking about.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates worry Fog's location tracking could be put to other novel uses, like keeping tabs on people who seek abortions in states where it is now illegal. These concerns were heightened when a Nebraska woman was charged in August with helping her teenage daughter end a pregnancy after investigators got hold of their Facebook messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government's use of location data is still being weighed by the courts, too. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two years after walking off the crime data analysis supervisor job with the Greensboro police force, Hall still worries about police surveillance in neighboring communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anyone with that login information can do as many searches as they want,\" Hall said. \"I don't believe the police have earned the trust to use that, and I don't believe it should be legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP National Writer Allen G. Breed contributed from Greensboro, North Carolina. Dearen reported from New York and Burke reported from San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, is part of an ongoing Associated Press series, \"Tracked,\" that investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people's everyday lives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This reporting was produced in collaboration with researchers Janine Graham, Nicole Waddick and Jane Yang as well as the University of California, Berkeley's Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and School of Law.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow Garance Burke and Jason Dearen on Twitter at @garanceburke and @jhdearen. Contact AP's global investigative team at investigative@ap.org or https://www.ap.org/tips/.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924380/cell-phone-tracking-tool-offers-police-mass-surveillance-on-a-budget","authors":["byline_news_11924380"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_31558","news_31561","news_2103","news_31559","news_31560","news_19903","news_31562"],"featImg":"news_11889587","label":"news"},"news_11787003":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11787003","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11787003","score":null,"sort":[1573939318000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"survey-most-americans-feel-data-tracking-is-out-of-control-and-privacy-nonexistent","title":"Survey: Most Americans Feel Data Tracking is Out of Control and Privacy Nonexistent","publishDate":1573939318,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With each passing year, more and more companies — and governments— are tracking us for a wide range of reasons. Not surprisingly, six in 10 U.S. adults \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/how-americans-think-about-privacy-and-the-vulnerability-of-their-personal-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed last June\u003c/a> reported feeling like they’re being watched all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are not convinced that the benefits of tracking outweigh the risks of tracking, and they are feeling that they don’t have very much control over what is happening to them,\" said Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The online survey of 4,272 people also found that distress over the lack of data privacy is bi-partisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There aren't dramatic differences between Republicans and Democrats,\" Rainie said. \"That's a big story in a time when much of the rest of culture and politics has become polarized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11787014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg 1150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-800x462.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-1020x589.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew Research Center survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, there is widespread disagreement about how government could or should address the problem. This survey did not ask about specific regulatory responses ranging from the conceptual, like establishing a \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lofgren-introduce-the-online-privacy-act/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new federal agency\u003c/a> proposed by Silicon Valley Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo, to the already enacted, like the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> that takes effect Jan. 1, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy percent of those polled said they believe their data is less secure than it was five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, this data shows that Americans are anxious for more to be done and more clarity to be established in how data is captured and used. Yet, the hard, gritty details are something that partisans can fight about,\" Rainie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But, if you give them a choice, do you think it would mostly be a better solution to have more technology tools or other initiatives in your own hands? Or, do you think to have the government be more empowered to do things? Fifty-five percent said they would rather have the tools,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1142px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11787015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2.jpg 1142w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-1020x1029.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research for the Pew Research Center']'It's one of the big paradoxes of American life, that Americans say they are very interested in being private, and being in control of their own identities, and yet in their day-to-day lives, they don't necessarily act as if privacy matters most to them.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even though 79% of people surveyed are not confident companies will take responsibility for misusing consumers’ data, and three out of four Americans told Pew they are not confident that companies' mistakes will be held accountable by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation's top privacy watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, established a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763073/ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations\">$5 billion settlement\u003c/a> with Facebook earlier this year over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge Analytica scandal\u003c/a>, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772159/google-youtube-to-pay-170-million-penalty-over-collecting-kids-personal-info\">$170 million settlement\u003c/a> with Google and YouTube over collecting the personal information of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the federal government isn't doing enough, including some within the federal government. Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Slaughter, both Democratic appointments to the FTC, have said the Facebook settlement in particular should have held company executives personally liable. No federal data privacy legislation has managed to garner enough bi-partisan support to make it to the President's desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 892px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11787017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4.jpg\" alt=\"From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.\" width=\"892\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4.jpg 892w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4-160x196.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4-800x978.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">From a business perspective, the vast array of companies that track and buy data express much more \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk/our-insights/data-privacy-what-every-manager-needs-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concern\u003c/a> about GDPR, the European Union directive on data protection, than anything happening in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='data-privacy' label='More on Data Privacy']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Americans continue to expand our online profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is natural tension between data utility and privacy protection, and this will only get more severe as we progress in a data-driven economy,\" said Dawn Song, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. \"Traditionally, there has been very little transparency and user control on how users' data is used. With a growing number of major public data breaches and an increased focus on business models that depend on user data, it’s no wonder that more and more consumers are anxious about how their data is being used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of the big paradoxes of American life, that Americans say they are very interested in being private, and yet in their day-to-day lives, they don't necessarily act as if privacy matters most to them,\" Rainie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, \"When you press them about that, you get a couple of answers. First is, they're confused about what's going on, how the data are used. They also say that it's pretty hard to live modern life without many of these tools. They don't feel it's a live option to them to be able to withdraw from the systems of monitoring and tracking that they know are taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The online survey of 4,272 people found that distress over the lack of data privacy is bi-partisan.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1573946464,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":909},"headData":{"title":"Survey: Most Americans Feel Data Tracking is Out of Control and Privacy Nonexistent | KQED","description":"The online survey of 4,272 people found that distress over the lack of data privacy is bi-partisan.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11787003 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11787003","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/16/survey-most-americans-feel-data-tracking-is-out-of-control-and-privacy-nonexistent/","disqusTitle":"Survey: Most Americans Feel Data Tracking is Out of Control and Privacy Nonexistent","path":"/news/11787003/survey-most-americans-feel-data-tracking-is-out-of-control-and-privacy-nonexistent","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With each passing year, more and more companies — and governments— are tracking us for a wide range of reasons. Not surprisingly, six in 10 U.S. adults \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/11/15/how-americans-think-about-privacy-and-the-vulnerability-of-their-personal-data/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surveyed last June\u003c/a> reported feeling like they’re being watched all the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are not convinced that the benefits of tracking outweigh the risks of tracking, and they are feeling that they don’t have very much control over what is happening to them,\" said Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research at Pew Research Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The online survey of 4,272 people also found that distress over the lack of data privacy is bi-partisan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There aren't dramatic differences between Republicans and Democrats,\" Rainie said. \"That's a big story in a time when much of the rest of culture and politics has become polarized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787014\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11787014\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1150\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1.jpg 1150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-160x92.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-800x462.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-1-1020x589.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew Research Center survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That said, there is widespread disagreement about how government could or should address the problem. This survey did not ask about specific regulatory responses ranging from the conceptual, like establishing a \u003ca href=\"https://eshoo.house.gov/news-stories/press-releases/eshoo-lofgren-introduce-the-online-privacy-act/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new federal agency\u003c/a> proposed by Silicon Valley Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Anna Eshoo, to the already enacted, like the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Consumer Privacy Act\u003c/a> that takes effect Jan. 1, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventy percent of those polled said they believe their data is less secure than it was five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, this data shows that Americans are anxious for more to be done and more clarity to be established in how data is captured and used. Yet, the hard, gritty details are something that partisans can fight about,\" Rainie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But, if you give them a choice, do you think it would mostly be a better solution to have more technology tools or other initiatives in your own hands? Or, do you think to have the government be more empowered to do things? Fifty-five percent said they would rather have the tools,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1142px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11787015\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1142\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2.jpg 1142w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-160x161.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-800x807.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-2-1020x1029.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1142px) 100vw, 1142px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's one of the big paradoxes of American life, that Americans say they are very interested in being private, and being in control of their own identities, and yet in their day-to-day lives, they don't necessarily act as if privacy matters most to them.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lee Rainie, director of internet and technology research for the Pew Research Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s even though 79% of people surveyed are not confident companies will take responsibility for misusing consumers’ data, and three out of four Americans told Pew they are not confident that companies' mistakes will be held accountable by the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation's top privacy watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, established a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11763073/ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations\">$5 billion settlement\u003c/a> with Facebook earlier this year over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11713801/facebooks-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cambridge Analytica scandal\u003c/a>, as well as a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11772159/google-youtube-to-pay-170-million-penalty-over-collecting-kids-personal-info\">$170 million settlement\u003c/a> with Google and YouTube over collecting the personal information of children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the federal government isn't doing enough, including some within the federal government. Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Slaughter, both Democratic appointments to the FTC, have said the Facebook settlement in particular should have held company executives personally liable. No federal data privacy legislation has managed to garner enough bi-partisan support to make it to the President's desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 892px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11787017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4.jpg\" alt=\"From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points.\" width=\"892\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4.jpg 892w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4-160x196.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Pew-Privacy-4-800x978.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Pew survey of 4,272 U.S. adults conducted June 3-17, 2019. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.9 percentage points. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Pew Research Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">From a business perspective, the vast array of companies that track and buy data express much more \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/risk/our-insights/data-privacy-what-every-manager-needs-to-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concern\u003c/a> about GDPR, the European Union directive on data protection, than anything happening in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"data-privacy","label":"More on Data Privacy "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Americans continue to expand our online profiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is natural tension between data utility and privacy protection, and this will only get more severe as we progress in a data-driven economy,\" said Dawn Song, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. \"Traditionally, there has been very little transparency and user control on how users' data is used. With a growing number of major public data breaches and an increased focus on business models that depend on user data, it’s no wonder that more and more consumers are anxious about how their data is being used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's one of the big paradoxes of American life, that Americans say they are very interested in being private, and yet in their day-to-day lives, they don't necessarily act as if privacy matters most to them,\" Rainie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued, \"When you press them about that, you get a couple of answers. First is, they're confused about what's going on, how the data are used. They also say that it's pretty hard to live modern life without many of these tools. They don't feel it's a live option to them to be able to withdraw from the systems of monitoring and tracking that they know are taking place.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11787003/survey-most-americans-feel-data-tracking-is-out-of-control-and-privacy-nonexistent","authors":["251"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_21275","news_22845","news_22790","news_22844","news_249","news_2103","news_93","news_17996","news_17827","news_4546","news_2011","news_353","news_20378","news_22585","news_2013"],"featImg":"news_11787011","label":"news"},"news_11770683":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11770683","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11770683","score":null,"sort":[1567038135000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"facebook-tightens-political-ad-rules-but-leaves-loopholes","title":"Facebook Tightens Political Ad Rules, But Leaves Loopholes","publishDate":1567038135,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Facebook is tightening its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, acknowledging previous misuse. But it's not clear if it will be enough to stop bad actors from abusing its system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes include a tightened verification process that will require anyone wanting to run ads pertaining to elections, politics or big social issues like guns and immigration to confirm their identity and prove they are in the U.S. Beginning in mid-September, such advertisers confirm their group's identity using their organization's tax identification number or other government ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verified group name will be listed on the \"paid for by\" disclaimers that disclose the backers of ads. Facebook says it will verify this information against government records and will note in the disclaimer for confirmed ads that they're placed by a \"confirmed organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11763863,news_11727288,news_11683962\" label=\"Disinformation in the Digital Age\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process won't apply to everyone, as Facebook says it would bar some smaller but legitimate groups from advertising. But a loophole that will allow small grassroots groups and local politicians to run political ads could also continue to allow bad actors to take advantage of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advertisers who don't have tax ID numbers, government websites or registrations with the Federal Election Commission will still be able to post ads by providing an address, verifiable phone number, business email and website. These advertisers won't get a \"confirmed\" designation. Previously, only a U.S. address was required. But it's not inconceivable that bad actors will find a way to spoof phone numbers and email addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've acknowledged that these tools will not be perfect,\" Sarah Schiff, a Facebook product manager, said in an email. \"But we are committed to making it more difficult for bad actors to misuse and abuse our platform\" without penalizing smaller organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff also reiterated the company's calls for regulation of online political advertising. Critics have said that Facebook's attempts at self-regulation are merely a way for the company to pre-empt stricter government crackdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Facebook was ordered to pay a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761119/facebook-faces-5b-federal-trade-commission-fine-over-privacy-violations-user-data-mishandling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$5 billion fine\u003c/a> to the Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations. It also faces a series of other investigations into its privacy practices in Europe and across the U.S., in addition to new investigations into its allegedly anticompetitive behavior, such as the social network's habit of buying would-be rivals like Instagram and blatantly duplicating features introduced by competing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the company has beefed up its fight against misinformation and coordinated attacks by malicious nation-states, the same can be said for those trying to game its systems. After revelations that Russians bankrolled thousands of fake political ads during the 2016 elections, Facebook and other social networks faced intense pressure to ensure that doesn't happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2017, Facebook said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/3d2dde3338924c9faaf08b05af65f06e\">verify political ad buyers\u003c/a> by requiring them to confirm their names and locations, the latter by receiving a postcard with a confirmation code at a U.S. address. Page administrators also had to be verified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics said the rules were easy to evade. Last fall, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj9mny/facebooks-political-ad-tool-let-us-buy-ads-paid-for-by-mike-pence-and-isis\">Vice News\u003c/a> was able to place ads on behalf of the likes of Vice President Mike Pence and the Islamic State, which were all approved by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Facebook is tightening its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, acknowledging previous misuse. But it's not clear if it will be enough.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1580428887,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":564},"headData":{"title":"Facebook Tightens Political Ad Rules, But Leaves Loopholes | KQED","description":"Facebook is tightening its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, acknowledging previous misuse. But it's not clear if it will be enough.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11770683 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11770683","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/28/facebook-tightens-political-ad-rules-but-leaves-loopholes/","disqusTitle":"Facebook Tightens Political Ad Rules, But Leaves Loopholes","nprByline":"Barbara Ortutay \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11770683/facebook-tightens-political-ad-rules-but-leaves-loopholes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facebook is tightening its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, acknowledging previous misuse. But it's not clear if it will be enough to stop bad actors from abusing its system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes include a tightened verification process that will require anyone wanting to run ads pertaining to elections, politics or big social issues like guns and immigration to confirm their identity and prove they are in the U.S. Beginning in mid-September, such advertisers confirm their group's identity using their organization's tax identification number or other government ID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verified group name will be listed on the \"paid for by\" disclaimers that disclose the backers of ads. Facebook says it will verify this information against government records and will note in the disclaimer for confirmed ads that they're placed by a \"confirmed organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11763863,news_11727288,news_11683962","label":"Disinformation in the Digital Age "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process won't apply to everyone, as Facebook says it would bar some smaller but legitimate groups from advertising. But a loophole that will allow small grassroots groups and local politicians to run political ads could also continue to allow bad actors to take advantage of the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advertisers who don't have tax ID numbers, government websites or registrations with the Federal Election Commission will still be able to post ads by providing an address, verifiable phone number, business email and website. These advertisers won't get a \"confirmed\" designation. Previously, only a U.S. address was required. But it's not inconceivable that bad actors will find a way to spoof phone numbers and email addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've acknowledged that these tools will not be perfect,\" Sarah Schiff, a Facebook product manager, said in an email. \"But we are committed to making it more difficult for bad actors to misuse and abuse our platform\" without penalizing smaller organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schiff also reiterated the company's calls for regulation of online political advertising. Critics have said that Facebook's attempts at self-regulation are merely a way for the company to pre-empt stricter government crackdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Facebook was ordered to pay a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761119/facebook-faces-5b-federal-trade-commission-fine-over-privacy-violations-user-data-mishandling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$5 billion fine\u003c/a> to the Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations. It also faces a series of other investigations into its privacy practices in Europe and across the U.S., in addition to new investigations into its allegedly anticompetitive behavior, such as the social network's habit of buying would-be rivals like Instagram and blatantly duplicating features introduced by competing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the company has beefed up its fight against misinformation and coordinated attacks by malicious nation-states, the same can be said for those trying to game its systems. After revelations that Russians bankrolled thousands of fake political ads during the 2016 elections, Facebook and other social networks faced intense pressure to ensure that doesn't happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2017, Facebook said it will \u003ca href=\"https://www.apnews.com/3d2dde3338924c9faaf08b05af65f06e\">verify political ad buyers\u003c/a> by requiring them to confirm their names and locations, the latter by receiving a postcard with a confirmation code at a U.S. address. Page administrators also had to be verified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics said the rules were easy to evade. Last fall, for instance, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj9mny/facebooks-political-ad-tool-let-us-buy-ads-paid-for-by-mike-pence-and-isis\">Vice News\u003c/a> was able to place ads on behalf of the likes of Vice President Mike Pence and the Islamic State, which were all approved by Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11770683/facebook-tightens-political-ad-rules-but-leaves-loopholes","authors":["byline_news_11770683"],"categories":["news_8","news_13","news_248"],"tags":["news_27370","news_249","news_2103","news_23968","news_21254"],"featImg":"news_11770787","label":"news"},"news_11763863":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11763863","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11763863","score":null,"sort":[1564333818000]},"guestAuthors":[{"ID":"98603","displayName":"Aarti Shahani","firstName":"Aarti","lastName":"Shahani","userLogin":"aarti-shahani","userEmail":"ashahani@kqed.org","linkedAccount":"aartishahani","website":"","aim":"","yahooim":"","jabber":"","description":"","userNicename":"aarti-shahani","type":"guest-author"}],"slug":"federal-trade-commission-cannot-find-truth-behind-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg","title":"Federal Trade Commission Cannot Find Truth Behind Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg","publishDate":1564333818,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Facebook has a long track record in deception: telling people one thing, while doing another. That's according to federal regulators, at least one of whom says the government missed its chance to find out why the company has repeatedly misled its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week, the Federal Trade Commission decided to enter into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/741282397/facebook-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-privacy-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a settlement\u003c/a> with Mark Zuckerberg without interviewing him first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC secured a $5 billion penalty from Facebook but, FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra says, the agency sacrificed discovering the truth about the CEO in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's still really a mystery to me as to what role [Zuckerberg] played,\" says Chopra, who opposed the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/182_3109_facebook_complaint_filed_7-24-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTC complaint\u003c/a> against Facebook highlights a prominent moment when Zuckerberg said one thing while his company did another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing is, we don't ever want anyone to be surprised about how they're sharing on Facebook. I mean that's not good for anyone,\" Zuckerberg told the audience of Facebook's annual F8 conference in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the FTC had investigated Facebook for taking the personal data of users and, without consent, handing it off to outsiders — third-party app developers. Following that and other embarrassing revelations, Zuckerberg made a promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, everyone has to choose to share their own data with an app themselves,\" he said. \"We think that this is a really important step for giving people power and control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds great. Only, it wasn't true. According to the FTC, Facebook kept handing over user data secretly — without consent — to dozens of outside developers (like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/599542151/facebook-says-cambridge-analytica-data-grab-may-be-much-bigger-than-first-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Analytica\u003c/a>, the political research firm that worked on President Trump's campaign).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't the only time Zuckerberg misrepresented the truth. In 2018, he did it again — this time not on his own stage, but in front of the entire country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg — summoned to the U.S. Congress — apologized for enabling Russian interference in the American elections, for helping to spread fake news and hate speech, and for violating the privacy of users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well,\" he testified. \"And that was a big mistake, and it was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook. I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds great. Only, in the same month Zuckerberg gave that testimony (it was in April 2018), regulators say, the company began to use facial-recognition tracking on some 60 million users — again, without consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC's Chopra voted against entering the settlement with Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cut off this investigation too early, [and] Facebook was willing to pay more money in order to hide Mark Zuckerberg's testimony from this investigation,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Republican FTC members voted in favor of settling. The FTC extracted a $5 billion penalty from Facebook. Agency officials say that's more than the government would have gotten in court, if they'd litigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chopra, a Democrat, says his agency underplayed its hand, and missed the opportunity to uncover if Zuckerberg's misrepresentations were intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC spoke to Zuckerberg's lawyers, but not to him. He was not required to answer questions or turn over his emails; and the settlement lets the CEO off the hook for the many privacy mishaps the FTC scrutinized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg did not personally face charges for violating an earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/facebook-settles-ftc-charges-it-deceived-consumers-failing-keep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settlement\u003c/a> his company had reached with the FTC in 2011 settlement, though he could have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new FTC settlement includes provisions that could hold Zuckerberg liable, through civil and criminal penalties, for any future violations of the agreement with the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg's actions may stand at odds with the philanthropic, altruistic image he's worked hard to cultivate. CEOs break rules all the time. The ousted chief of Uber appeared to take pride in bulldozing his way into cities, assuming the laws that apply to cabs didn't apply to his operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zuckerberg has worked very hard to project the image of model super citizen: Harvard dropout committed to connecting the world with an American brand that's more omnipresent that Coca-Cola; funding woefully neglected \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130101294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school systems\u003c/a>; and conducting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-harvard-commencement-road-trip.html\">listening tour\u003c/a> to hear real people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Facebook is one of NPR's financial sponsors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It bothers Chopra that his agency didn't pursue the truth because Zuckerberg isn't just a CEO. He has structured the stock so that he controls the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/shareholders-wont-force-zuckerbergs-hand-in-facebook-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">votes\u003c/a> in Facebook. Chopra explained in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements/1536911/chopra_dissenting_statement_on_facebook_7-24-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written\u003c/a> dissent hat in other cases, when a chief calls the shots in a company, the FTC takes a hard look at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't even want to look at something that seemed fundamentally important, and instead traded it away for a higher fine, and none of that money will actually go to Facebook's users,\" Chopra says. The $5 billion goes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/07/what-ftc-facebook-settlement-means-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Treasury\u003c/a>, as mandated by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg lauded the settlement, saying \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10108276550917411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post\u003c/a> that his company has a \"privacy-focused vision\" and that, while Facebook already works hard to protect people's privacy, \"now we're going to set a completely new standard for our industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not mention that his company fought tooth and nail, according to regulators, against the fine and new external oversight the deal imposed on Facebook. The company did not respond to NPR about Chopra's criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Zuckerberg's team is on Capitol Hill, trying to get permission to mint money — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742168185/tech-firms-to-face-lawmakers-over-antitrust-digital-currency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new digital currency\u003c/a>. This cannot succeed without the public trust. Facebook is making the case that lawmakers and regulators should trust it. But Chopra says he doesn't trust Zuckerberg or his company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR business desk intern Amy Scott contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Did+Facebook+CEO+Mark+Zuckerberg+Intend+To+Deceive%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Regulators missed a chance to find out if deceptive practices at Facebook came from the top when they decided to enter into a settlement with Zuckerberg instead of questioning him, an FTC member says.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1564333882,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":988},"headData":{"title":"Federal Trade Commission Cannot Find Truth Behind Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg | KQED","description":"Regulators missed a chance to find out if deceptive practices at Facebook came from the top when they decided to enter into a settlement with Zuckerberg instead of questioning him, an FTC member says.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11763863 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11763863","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/28/federal-trade-commission-cannot-find-truth-behind-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg/","disqusTitle":"Federal Trade Commission Cannot Find Truth Behind Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg","source":"npr","nprImageCredit":"Andrew Harnik","nprByline":"Aarti Shahani \u003cbr> NPR","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"745949428","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=745949428&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/28/745949428/did-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-intend-to-deceive?ft=nprml&f=745949428","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:00:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:47:53 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2019/07/20190728_wesun_did_facebook_ceo_mark_zuckerberg_intend_to_deceive.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=258&p=10&story=745949428&ft=nprml&f=745949428","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1745990087-3acce7.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=258&p=10&story=745949428&ft=nprml&f=745949428","audioTrackLength":258,"path":"/news/11763863/federal-trade-commission-cannot-find-truth-behind-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2019/07/20190728_wesun_did_facebook_ceo_mark_zuckerberg_intend_to_deceive.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=258&p=10&story=745949428&ft=nprml&f=745949428","parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facebook has a long track record in deception: telling people one thing, while doing another. That's according to federal regulators, at least one of whom says the government missed its chance to find out why the company has repeatedly misled its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past week, the Federal Trade Commission decided to enter into \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/741282397/facebook-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-privacy-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a settlement\u003c/a> with Mark Zuckerberg without interviewing him first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC secured a $5 billion penalty from Facebook but, FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra says, the agency sacrificed discovering the truth about the CEO in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's still really a mystery to me as to what role [Zuckerberg] played,\" says Chopra, who opposed the settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/182_3109_facebook_complaint_filed_7-24-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FTC complaint\u003c/a> against Facebook highlights a prominent moment when Zuckerberg said one thing while his company did another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing is, we don't ever want anyone to be surprised about how they're sharing on Facebook. I mean that's not good for anyone,\" Zuckerberg told the audience of Facebook's annual F8 conference in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators at the FTC had investigated Facebook for taking the personal data of users and, without consent, handing it off to outsiders — third-party app developers. Following that and other embarrassing revelations, Zuckerberg made a promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, everyone has to choose to share their own data with an app themselves,\" he said. \"We think that this is a really important step for giving people power and control.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds great. Only, it wasn't true. According to the FTC, Facebook kept handing over user data secretly — without consent — to dozens of outside developers (like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/04/599542151/facebook-says-cambridge-analytica-data-grab-may-be-much-bigger-than-first-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Analytica\u003c/a>, the political research firm that worked on President Trump's campaign).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't the only time Zuckerberg misrepresented the truth. In 2018, he did it again — this time not on his own stage, but in front of the entire country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg — summoned to the U.S. Congress — apologized for enabling Russian interference in the American elections, for helping to spread fake news and hate speech, and for violating the privacy of users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's clear now that we didn't do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well,\" he testified. \"And that was a big mistake, and it was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook. I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds great. Only, in the same month Zuckerberg gave that testimony (it was in April 2018), regulators say, the company began to use facial-recognition tracking on some 60 million users — again, without consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC's Chopra voted against entering the settlement with Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We cut off this investigation too early, [and] Facebook was willing to pay more money in order to hide Mark Zuckerberg's testimony from this investigation,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Republican FTC members voted in favor of settling. The FTC extracted a $5 billion penalty from Facebook. Agency officials say that's more than the government would have gotten in court, if they'd litigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chopra, a Democrat, says his agency underplayed its hand, and missed the opportunity to uncover if Zuckerberg's misrepresentations were intentional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC spoke to Zuckerberg's lawyers, but not to him. He was not required to answer questions or turn over his emails; and the settlement lets the CEO off the hook for the many privacy mishaps the FTC scrutinized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg did not personally face charges for violating an earlier \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/facebook-settles-ftc-charges-it-deceived-consumers-failing-keep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settlement\u003c/a> his company had reached with the FTC in 2011 settlement, though he could have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new FTC settlement includes provisions that could hold Zuckerberg liable, through civil and criminal penalties, for any future violations of the agreement with the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg's actions may stand at odds with the philanthropic, altruistic image he's worked hard to cultivate. CEOs break rules all the time. The ousted chief of Uber appeared to take pride in bulldozing his way into cities, assuming the laws that apply to cabs didn't apply to his operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zuckerberg has worked very hard to project the image of model super citizen: Harvard dropout committed to connecting the world with an American brand that's more omnipresent that Coca-Cola; funding woefully neglected \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130101294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school systems\u003c/a>; and conducting a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/technology/zuckerberg-harvard-commencement-road-trip.html\">listening tour\u003c/a> to hear real people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Facebook is one of NPR's financial sponsors.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It bothers Chopra that his agency didn't pursue the truth because Zuckerberg isn't just a CEO. He has structured the stock so that he controls the majority of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/shareholders-wont-force-zuckerbergs-hand-in-facebook-management.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">votes\u003c/a> in Facebook. Chopra explained in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements/1536911/chopra_dissenting_statement_on_facebook_7-24-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written\u003c/a> dissent hat in other cases, when a chief calls the shots in a company, the FTC takes a hard look at them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We didn't even want to look at something that seemed fundamentally important, and instead traded it away for a higher fine, and none of that money will actually go to Facebook's users,\" Chopra says. The $5 billion goes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/07/what-ftc-facebook-settlement-means-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Treasury\u003c/a>, as mandated by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg lauded the settlement, saying \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10108276550917411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a post\u003c/a> that his company has a \"privacy-focused vision\" and that, while Facebook already works hard to protect people's privacy, \"now we're going to set a completely new standard for our industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not mention that his company fought tooth and nail, according to regulators, against the fine and new external oversight the deal imposed on Facebook. The company did not respond to NPR about Chopra's criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Zuckerberg's team is on Capitol Hill, trying to get permission to mint money — \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742168185/tech-firms-to-face-lawmakers-over-antitrust-digital-currency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new digital currency\u003c/a>. This cannot succeed without the public trust. Facebook is making the case that lawmakers and regulators should trust it. But Chopra says he doesn't trust Zuckerberg or his company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NPR business desk intern Amy Scott contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Did+Facebook+CEO+Mark+Zuckerberg+Intend+To+Deceive%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11763863/federal-trade-commission-cannot-find-truth-behind-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg","authors":["byline_news_11763863"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_249","news_2103","news_250"],"featImg":"news_11763864","label":"source_news_11763863"},"news_11763073":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11763073","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11763073","score":null,"sort":[1563982358000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations","title":"FTC to Hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Liable for Any Future Privacy Violations","publishDate":1563982358,"format":"standard","headTitle":"NPR | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:07 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will have to personally answer to federal regulators under an agreement to settle a privacy case with the Federal Trade Commission that includes a $5 billion penalty for the giant social media company, the agency announced Wednesday. Separately, Facebook will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-140\">pay $100 million\u003c/a> to settle a case with the Securities and Exchange Commission for making misleading disclosures about the risk that users' data would be misused, the SEC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions\">the FTC agreement\u003c/a>, Zuckerberg will be required to submit quarterly compliance reports directly to the federal regulators and to Facebook's board of directors. If the Facebook co-founder or \"designated compliance officers\" violate the agreement, they could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, the FTC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no way that the CEO can bury his head in the sand,\" James Kohm, head of the FTC's enforcement unit, told NPR. \"There's no ostrich defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"facebook\" label=\"More Facebook Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to FTC investigators, Facebook violated the terms of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/facebook-settles-ftc-charges-it-deceived-consumers-failing-keep\">2011 settlement\u003c/a> with the agency, in which it promised to protect user data from broad sharing with third-party apps. The company also committed new violations, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kohm described two major incidents in which Facebook effectively lied to users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the company solicited phone numbers, saying they were being collected to verify users' identity if a password needed to be reset. Millions of people trusted the company, and then Facebook took those phone numbers and used them not just for security, but also for advertising purposes, the FTC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, according to regulators, the company conducted facial recognition tracking on 60 million users without proper consent. Facebook must notify users who were affected and offer to delete the data collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/07/ftc-agreement/\">a blog post\u003c/a> Wednesday, Facebook said the FTC agreement \"is not only about regulators, it's about rebuilding trust with people. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have heard that words and apologies are not enough and that we need to show action. By resolving both the SEC and the FTC investigations, we hope to close this chapter and turn our focus and resources toward the future,\" the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate post, Zuckerberg wrote: \"We have a responsibility to protect people's privacy. We already work hard to live up to this responsibility, but now we're going to set a completely new standard for our industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earnings call earlier this year, Facebook disclosed it was expected to pay a multibillion-dollar fine to regulators. Following the company's announcement, the stock price jumped. Investors continued to have faith in the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics charge the FTC fine is too small, but Kohm said it sends a tough message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that $5 billion is a slap on the wrist just doesn't pass the laugh test. It is an enormous amount of profits,\" he said. \"[Facebook] didn't give it up easily. It is way higher than any case in U.S. history other than Deepwater Horizon [the Gulf of Mexico oil spill], where there was massive amounts of harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data privacy harm is less tangible than oil spill harm. But the FTC says the $5 billion is for deterrence — to send a message to other tech companies. Kohm says Facebook fought against it, though the company didn't want to litigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement comes as big tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon face increased calls for regulation amid scrutiny over whether they're too big and powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows by one day \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reviewing-practices-market-leading-online-platforms\">the Justice Department's announcement\u003c/a> that its antitrust division is reviewing \"whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.\" The department did not say which companies are under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC's investigation of Facebook began more than a year ago in the wake of revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm that had worked with President Trump's 2016 campaign, had gathered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607782799/cambridge-analytica-is-shutting-down-after-facebook-data-controversy\">personal data\u003c/a> from up to 87 million Facebook users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook had been in negotiations with the FTC following concerns that the social media giant violated the 2011 consent decree in which it promised to give consumers \"clear and prominent notice\" when sharing their data with others and to get \"express consent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Wednesday, the company settled a case with securities regulators over the Cambridge Analytica matter. The SEC said Facebook \"discovered the misuse of its users' information in 2015, but did not correct its existing disclosure for more than two years.\" Instead, the agency said, \"Facebook continued to tell investors that \"our users' data may be improperly accessed, used or disclosed.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Facebook presented the risk of misuse of user data as hypothetical when they knew user data had in fact been misused,\" Stephanie Avakian, co-director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, said in a statement. \"Public companies must have procedures in place to make accurate disclosures about material business risks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook told investors in April that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716886822/facebook-could-face-up-to-5-billion-fine-for-privacy-violations\">expected to pay\u003c/a> a fine of up to $5 billion in a settlement with the FTC. By comparison, the company reported $55.8 billion in revenues and a profit of $22.1 billion last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook is one of NPR's financial sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/10/599808766/i-m-responsible-for-what-happens-at-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-will-tell-senate\">hours of questioning\u003c/a> in congressional hearings in April 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how Facebook handled user data. \"We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I'm sorry,\" he told lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/05/599770568/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-on-data-privacy-fail-we-were-way-too-idealistic\"> told NPR\u003c/a> in an interview: \"We really believed in protecting privacy. But we were way too idealistic. We did not think enough about the abuse cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2019, Zuckerberg promised to bring encryption and self-destruct features to Messenger and other Facebook apps, in a move meant to signal the company's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/700896972/facebook-promises-more-private-and-self-destructing-messages\">commitment to privacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/04/616792341/facebook-defends-giving-device-makers-access-to-users-data-for-years\">denied reports\u003c/a> in June 2018 that the company exposed its users' private information to other big tech companies as part of a plan to become ubiquitous on mobile devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, several groups that advocate for children's rights and privacy rights asked the FTC to investigate whether Facebook illegally \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696430478/advocates-ask-ftc-to-investigate-facebook-deception-over-kids-in-game-purchases\">enticed children to spend money\u003c/a> on in-game purchases without their parents' consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Facebook's plan to launch a digital currency has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742168185/tech-firms-to-face-lawmakers-over-antitrust-digital-currency\">drawn skepticism from lawmakers\u003c/a>, who cited the company's repeated missteps over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook will pay $5 billion and the Facebook co-founder could be subject to penalties if his company doesn't comply with the agreement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1564006911,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1103},"headData":{"title":"FTC to Hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Liable for Any Future Privacy Violations | KQED","description":"Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook will pay $5 billion and the Facebook co-founder could be subject to penalties if his company doesn't comply with the agreement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11763073 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11763073","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/24/ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations/","disqusTitle":"FTC to Hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Liable for Any Future Privacy Violations","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprImageCredit":"Ben Margot","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>Aarti Shahani and Avie Schneider\u003cbr />NPR\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"741282397","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=741282397&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/741282397/facebook-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-privacy-case?ft=nprml&f=741282397","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:24:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 24 Jul 2019 08:30:16 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 24 Jul 2019 09:24:16 -0400","path":"/news/11763073/ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:07 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will have to personally answer to federal regulators under an agreement to settle a privacy case with the Federal Trade Commission that includes a $5 billion penalty for the giant social media company, the agency announced Wednesday. Separately, Facebook will \u003ca href=\"https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-140\">pay $100 million\u003c/a> to settle a case with the Securities and Exchange Commission for making misleading disclosures about the risk that users' data would be misused, the SEC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/07/ftc-imposes-5-billion-penalty-sweeping-new-privacy-restrictions\">the FTC agreement\u003c/a>, Zuckerberg will be required to submit quarterly compliance reports directly to the federal regulators and to Facebook's board of directors. If the Facebook co-founder or \"designated compliance officers\" violate the agreement, they could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, the FTC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no way that the CEO can bury his head in the sand,\" James Kohm, head of the FTC's enforcement unit, told NPR. \"There's no ostrich defense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"facebook","label":"More Facebook Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to FTC investigators, Facebook violated the terms of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/facebook-settles-ftc-charges-it-deceived-consumers-failing-keep\">2011 settlement\u003c/a> with the agency, in which it promised to protect user data from broad sharing with third-party apps. The company also committed new violations, they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kohm described two major incidents in which Facebook effectively lied to users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the company solicited phone numbers, saying they were being collected to verify users' identity if a password needed to be reset. Millions of people trusted the company, and then Facebook took those phone numbers and used them not just for security, but also for advertising purposes, the FTC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, according to regulators, the company conducted facial recognition tracking on 60 million users without proper consent. Facebook must notify users who were affected and offer to delete the data collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/07/ftc-agreement/\">a blog post\u003c/a> Wednesday, Facebook said the FTC agreement \"is not only about regulators, it's about rebuilding trust with people. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have heard that words and apologies are not enough and that we need to show action. By resolving both the SEC and the FTC investigations, we hope to close this chapter and turn our focus and resources toward the future,\" the company said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate post, Zuckerberg wrote: \"We have a responsibility to protect people's privacy. We already work hard to live up to this responsibility, but now we're going to set a completely new standard for our industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earnings call earlier this year, Facebook disclosed it was expected to pay a multibillion-dollar fine to regulators. Following the company's announcement, the stock price jumped. Investors continued to have faith in the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics charge the FTC fine is too small, but Kohm said it sends a tough message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The idea that $5 billion is a slap on the wrist just doesn't pass the laugh test. It is an enormous amount of profits,\" he said. \"[Facebook] didn't give it up easily. It is way higher than any case in U.S. history other than Deepwater Horizon [the Gulf of Mexico oil spill], where there was massive amounts of harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data privacy harm is less tangible than oil spill harm. But the FTC says the $5 billion is for deterrence — to send a message to other tech companies. Kohm says Facebook fought against it, though the company didn't want to litigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement comes as big tech companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon face increased calls for regulation amid scrutiny over whether they're too big and powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows by one day \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reviewing-practices-market-leading-online-platforms\">the Justice Department's announcement\u003c/a> that its antitrust division is reviewing \"whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers.\" The department did not say which companies are under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FTC's investigation of Facebook began more than a year ago in the wake of revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm that had worked with President Trump's 2016 campaign, had gathered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607782799/cambridge-analytica-is-shutting-down-after-facebook-data-controversy\">personal data\u003c/a> from up to 87 million Facebook users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook had been in negotiations with the FTC following concerns that the social media giant violated the 2011 consent decree in which it promised to give consumers \"clear and prominent notice\" when sharing their data with others and to get \"express consent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Wednesday, the company settled a case with securities regulators over the Cambridge Analytica matter. The SEC said Facebook \"discovered the misuse of its users' information in 2015, but did not correct its existing disclosure for more than two years.\" Instead, the agency said, \"Facebook continued to tell investors that \"our users' data may be improperly accessed, used or disclosed.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Facebook presented the risk of misuse of user data as hypothetical when they knew user data had in fact been misused,\" Stephanie Avakian, co-director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, said in a statement. \"Public companies must have procedures in place to make accurate disclosures about material business risks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook told investors in April that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716886822/facebook-could-face-up-to-5-billion-fine-for-privacy-violations\">expected to pay\u003c/a> a fine of up to $5 billion in a settlement with the FTC. By comparison, the company reported $55.8 billion in revenues and a profit of $22.1 billion last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook is one of NPR's financial sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/10/599808766/i-m-responsible-for-what-happens-at-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-will-tell-senate\">hours of questioning\u003c/a> in congressional hearings in April 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how Facebook handled user data. \"We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I'm sorry,\" he told lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days earlier, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/05/599770568/facebooks-sheryl-sandberg-on-data-privacy-fail-we-were-way-too-idealistic\"> told NPR\u003c/a> in an interview: \"We really believed in protecting privacy. But we were way too idealistic. We did not think enough about the abuse cases.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2019, Zuckerberg promised to bring encryption and self-destruct features to Messenger and other Facebook apps, in a move meant to signal the company's \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/700896972/facebook-promises-more-private-and-self-destructing-messages\">commitment to privacy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/04/616792341/facebook-defends-giving-device-makers-access-to-users-data-for-years\">denied reports\u003c/a> in June 2018 that the company exposed its users' private information to other big tech companies as part of a plan to become ubiquitous on mobile devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, several groups that advocate for children's rights and privacy rights asked the FTC to investigate whether Facebook illegally \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696430478/advocates-ask-ftc-to-investigate-facebook-deception-over-kids-in-game-purchases\">enticed children to spend money\u003c/a> on in-game purchases without their parents' consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Facebook's plan to launch a digital currency has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/16/742168185/tech-firms-to-face-lawmakers-over-antitrust-digital-currency\">drawn skepticism from lawmakers\u003c/a>, who cited the company's repeated missteps over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11763073/ftc-to-hold-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-liable-for-any-future-privacy-violations","authors":["byline_news_11763073"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_249","news_2103","news_250","news_3374"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11763074","label":"source_news_11763073"},"news_11761119":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11761119","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11761119","score":null,"sort":[1563047445000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"facebook-faces-5b-federal-trade-commission-fine-over-privacy-violations-user-data-mishandling","title":"Facebook Faces $5 Billion Federal Trade Commission Fine Over Privacy Violations, User Data Mishandling","publishDate":1563047445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The Federal Trade Commission voted on Friday to fine Facebook for privacy violations and mishandling user data, according to the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets. Most reports cited an unnamed person familiar with the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $5 billion, the fine the FTC is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a technology company, easily eclipsing the second largest, $22 million for Google in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-expected punishment, which Facebook is well prepared for, is unlikely to make a dent in the social media giant's deep pockets. But it will also likely saddle the company with additional restrictions and another lengthy stretch of strict scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook and the FTC declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3-2 vote broke along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition to the settlement, according to the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case now moves to the Justice Department's civil division for review. It's unclear how long the process would take, though it is likely to be approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the Facebook matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many companies, a $5 billion fine would be crippling. But Facebook is not most companies. It had nearly $56 billion in revenue last year. This year, analysts expect around $69 billion, according to Zacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a one-time expense, the company will also be able to exclude the amount from its adjusted earnings results —the profit figure that investors and financial analysts pay attention to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This closes a dark chapter and puts it in the rearview mirror with Cambridge Analytica,\" said Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives. \"Investors still had lingering worries that the fine might not be approved. Now, the Street can breathe a little easier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has earmarked $3 billion for a potential fine and said in April it was anticipating having to pay up to $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Wall Street — and likely Facebook executives — may be breathing a little easier, the fine alone has not appeased Facebook critics, including privacy advocates and lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reported $5 billion penalty is barely a tap on the wrist, not even a slap,\" said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Facebook Coverage\" tag=\"facebook\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Such a financial punishment for a purposeful, blatant illegality is chump change for a company that makes tens of billions of dollars every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others questioned whether the FTC will force Facebook to make any meaningful changes to how it handles user data. This might include limits on what information it collects on people and how it targets ads to them. It's currently unclear what measures the settlement includes beyond the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates have been calling on the FTC to come down on Facebook for a decade, but over that time the company's money, power and Washington influence has only increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Privacy regulation in the U.S. is broken. While large after-the-fact fines matter, what is much more important is strong, clear rules to protect consumers,\" said Nuala O'Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology. The CDT is pushing for federal online privacy legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have called on the FTC to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for the privacy violations in some way, but based on the party line vote breakdown, experts said this is not likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Rotenberg, president of the nonprofit online privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center, said he was \"confused\" as to why the Democratic commissioners didn't support the settlement and said he suspects, without having seen the actual settlement, that this was due to the Zuckerberg liability question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I thought that was misguided,\" he said, adding that EPIC instead supports more wholesale limits on how Facebook handles user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Cambridge Analytica debacle erupted more than a year ago and prompted the FTC investigation, Facebook has vowed to do a better job corralling its users' data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That scandal revealed that a data mining firm affiliated with President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign improperly accessed private information from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a quiz app. At issue was whether Facebook violated a 2011 settlement with the FTC over user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other leaky controls have also since come to light. Facebook acknowledged giving big tech companies like Amazon and Yahoo extensive access to users' personal data , in effect exempting them from its usual privacy rules. And it collected call and text logs from phones running Google's Android system in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wall Street appeared unfazed at the prospect of the fine. Facebook's shares closed at $204.87 on Friday and added 24 cents after hours. The stock is up more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year. In fact, Facebook's market value has increased by $64 billion since its April earnings report when it announced how much it was expecting to be fined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, said in a statement that the fine gives Facebook \"a Christmas present five months early. It's very disappointing that such an enormously powerful company that engaged in such serious misconduct is getting a slap on the wrist. This fine is a fraction of Facebook's annual revenue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline leads the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, which is pursuing a bipartisan investigation of the big tech companies' market dominance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine, however, doesn't spell the end of Facebook's troubles. The company faces a slew of other investigations, both in the U.S. and overseas, that could carry their own fines and, more importantly possible limits to its data collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes nearly a dozen by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which oversees privacy regulation in the European Union.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some want the FTC to hold CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable, as the fine amount is nowhere near substantial enough to impact the tech giant. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1563064273,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":969},"headData":{"title":"Facebook Faces $5 Billion Federal Trade Commission Fine Over Privacy Violations, User Data Mishandling | KQED","description":"Some want the FTC to hold CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable, as the fine amount is nowhere near substantial enough to impact the tech giant. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11761119 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11761119","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/07/13/facebook-faces-5b-federal-trade-commission-fine-over-privacy-violations-user-data-mishandling/","disqusTitle":"Facebook Faces $5 Billion Federal Trade Commission Fine Over Privacy Violations, User Data Mishandling","source":"ASSOCIATED PRESS","nprByline":"Barbara Ortutay \u003cbr> Associated Press","path":"/news/11761119/facebook-faces-5b-federal-trade-commission-fine-over-privacy-violations-user-data-mishandling","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Federal Trade Commission voted on Friday to fine Facebook for privacy violations and mishandling user data, according to the Wall Street Journal and other news outlets. Most reports cited an unnamed person familiar with the matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At $5 billion, the fine the FTC is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a technology company, easily eclipsing the second largest, $22 million for Google in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-expected punishment, which Facebook is well prepared for, is unlikely to make a dent in the social media giant's deep pockets. But it will also likely saddle the company with additional restrictions and another lengthy stretch of strict scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook and the FTC declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3-2 vote broke along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition to the settlement, according to the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case now moves to the Justice Department's civil division for review. It's unclear how long the process would take, though it is likely to be approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the Facebook matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many companies, a $5 billion fine would be crippling. But Facebook is not most companies. It had nearly $56 billion in revenue last year. This year, analysts expect around $69 billion, according to Zacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a one-time expense, the company will also be able to exclude the amount from its adjusted earnings results —the profit figure that investors and financial analysts pay attention to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This closes a dark chapter and puts it in the rearview mirror with Cambridge Analytica,\" said Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives. \"Investors still had lingering worries that the fine might not be approved. Now, the Street can breathe a little easier.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has earmarked $3 billion for a potential fine and said in April it was anticipating having to pay up to $5 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Wall Street — and likely Facebook executives — may be breathing a little easier, the fine alone has not appeased Facebook critics, including privacy advocates and lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reported $5 billion penalty is barely a tap on the wrist, not even a slap,\" said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Facebook Coverage ","tag":"facebook"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Such a financial punishment for a purposeful, blatant illegality is chump change for a company that makes tens of billions of dollars every year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others questioned whether the FTC will force Facebook to make any meaningful changes to how it handles user data. This might include limits on what information it collects on people and how it targets ads to them. It's currently unclear what measures the settlement includes beyond the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates have been calling on the FTC to come down on Facebook for a decade, but over that time the company's money, power and Washington influence has only increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Privacy regulation in the U.S. is broken. While large after-the-fact fines matter, what is much more important is strong, clear rules to protect consumers,\" said Nuala O'Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology. The CDT is pushing for federal online privacy legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some have called on the FTC to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally liable for the privacy violations in some way, but based on the party line vote breakdown, experts said this is not likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Rotenberg, president of the nonprofit online privacy advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center, said he was \"confused\" as to why the Democratic commissioners didn't support the settlement and said he suspects, without having seen the actual settlement, that this was due to the Zuckerberg liability question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I thought that was misguided,\" he said, adding that EPIC instead supports more wholesale limits on how Facebook handles user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the Cambridge Analytica debacle erupted more than a year ago and prompted the FTC investigation, Facebook has vowed to do a better job corralling its users' data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That scandal revealed that a data mining firm affiliated with President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign improperly accessed private information from as many as 87 million Facebook users through a quiz app. At issue was whether Facebook violated a 2011 settlement with the FTC over user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other leaky controls have also since come to light. Facebook acknowledged giving big tech companies like Amazon and Yahoo extensive access to users' personal data , in effect exempting them from its usual privacy rules. And it collected call and text logs from phones running Google's Android system in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wall Street appeared unfazed at the prospect of the fine. Facebook's shares closed at $204.87 on Friday and added 24 cents after hours. The stock is up more than 50 percent since the beginning of the year. In fact, Facebook's market value has increased by $64 billion since its April earnings report when it announced how much it was expecting to be fined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, said in a statement that the fine gives Facebook \"a Christmas present five months early. It's very disappointing that such an enormously powerful company that engaged in such serious misconduct is getting a slap on the wrist. This fine is a fraction of Facebook's annual revenue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cicilline leads the House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, which is pursuing a bipartisan investigation of the big tech companies' market dominance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fine, however, doesn't spell the end of Facebook's troubles. The company faces a slew of other investigations, both in the U.S. and overseas, that could carry their own fines and, more importantly possible limits to its data collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes nearly a dozen by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which oversees privacy regulation in the European Union.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11761119/facebook-faces-5b-federal-trade-commission-fine-over-privacy-violations-user-data-mishandling","authors":["byline_news_11761119"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_249","news_2103","news_353","news_1089","news_17623"],"featImg":"news_11761131","label":"source_news_11761119"},"news_11742542":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11742542","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11742542","score":null,"sort":[1556141085000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"facebook-anticipates-an-ftc-privacy-fine-of-up-to-5-billion","title":"Facebook Anticipates an FTC Privacy Fine of up to $5 Billion","publishDate":1556141085,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Facebook said it expects a fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the social network violated its users' privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company set aside $3 billion in its quarterly earnings report Wednesday as a contingency against the possible penalty but noted that the \"matter remains unresolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Facebook Coverage\" tag=\"facebook\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-time charge slashed Facebook's first-quarter net income considerably, although revenue grew by 25 percent in the period. The FTC has been looking into whether Facebook broke its own 2011 agreement promising to protect user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors shrugged off the charge and sent the company's stock up nearly 5 percent to $190.89 in after-hours trading. EMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson, however, called it a \"significant development\" and noted that any settlement is likely to go beyond a mere dollar amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Any) settlement with the FTC may impact the ways advertisers can use the platform in the future,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has had several high-profile privacy lapses in the past couple of years. The FTC has been looking into Facebook's involvement with the data-mining firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cambridge-analytica\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Analytica scandal\u003c/a> since last March. That company accessed the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the FTC investigation, Facebook faces several others in the U.S. and Europe, including by the Irish Data Protection Commission, and others in Belgium and Germany. Ireland is Facebook's lead privacy regulator for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social network said its net income was $2.43 billion, or 85 cents per share in the January-March period. That's down 51 percent from $4.99 billion, or $1.69 per share, a year earlier, largely as a result of the $3 billion charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue grew 26 percent to $15.08 billion from a year earlier. Excluding the charge, Facebook earned $1.89 per share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of $1.62 per share and revenue of $14.98 billion. Facebook's monthly user base grew 8 percent to 2.38 billion. Daily users grew 8 percent to 1.56 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Facebook set aside $3 billion in its quarterly earnings report Wednesday as a contingency. The FTC has been looking into whether Facebook broke its own 2011 agreement promising to protect user privacy.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556141085,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":361},"headData":{"title":"Facebook Anticipates an FTC Privacy Fine of up to $5 Billion | KQED","description":"Facebook set aside $3 billion in its quarterly earnings report Wednesday as a contingency. The FTC has been looking into whether Facebook broke its own 2011 agreement promising to protect user privacy.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11742542 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11742542","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/24/facebook-anticipates-an-ftc-privacy-fine-of-up-to-5-billion/","disqusTitle":"Facebook Anticipates an FTC Privacy Fine of up to $5 Billion","nprByline":"Barbara Ortutay \u003cbr> The Associated Press","path":"/news/11742542/facebook-anticipates-an-ftc-privacy-fine-of-up-to-5-billion","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facebook said it expects a fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the social network violated its users' privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company set aside $3 billion in its quarterly earnings report Wednesday as a contingency against the possible penalty but noted that the \"matter remains unresolved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Facebook Coverage ","tag":"facebook"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-time charge slashed Facebook's first-quarter net income considerably, although revenue grew by 25 percent in the period. The FTC has been looking into whether Facebook broke its own 2011 agreement promising to protect user privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors shrugged off the charge and sent the company's stock up nearly 5 percent to $190.89 in after-hours trading. EMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson, however, called it a \"significant development\" and noted that any settlement is likely to go beyond a mere dollar amount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Any) settlement with the FTC may impact the ways advertisers can use the platform in the future,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has had several high-profile privacy lapses in the past couple of years. The FTC has been looking into Facebook's involvement with the data-mining firm \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cambridge-analytica\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Analytica scandal\u003c/a> since last March. That company accessed the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users without their consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the FTC investigation, Facebook faces several others in the U.S. and Europe, including by the Irish Data Protection Commission, and others in Belgium and Germany. Ireland is Facebook's lead privacy regulator for Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The social network said its net income was $2.43 billion, or 85 cents per share in the January-March period. That's down 51 percent from $4.99 billion, or $1.69 per share, a year earlier, largely as a result of the $3 billion charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue grew 26 percent to $15.08 billion from a year earlier. Excluding the charge, Facebook earned $1.89 per share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts polled by FactSet expected earnings of $1.62 per share and revenue of $14.98 billion. Facebook's monthly user base grew 8 percent to 2.38 billion. Daily users grew 8 percent to 1.56 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11742542/facebook-anticipates-an-ftc-privacy-fine-of-up-to-5-billion","authors":["byline_news_11742542"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_22844","news_249","news_2103","news_3655","news_2125"],"featImg":"news_11742548","label":"news"},"news_11660761":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11660761","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11660761","score":null,"sort":[1523308198000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"child-advocates-ask-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-youtube","title":"Child Advocates and Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Investigate YouTube","publishDate":1523308198,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Read carefully through the fine print of YouTube's terms of service and you might notice that you've affirmed you are old enough to watch it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use the service,\" the terms say. \"There are lots of other great web sites for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a warning that goes unheeded by millions of children around the world who visit YouTube to watch cartoons, nursery rhymes, science experiments or videos of toys being unboxed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a formal complaint being filed Monday, child advocates and consumer groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and impose potentially billions of dollars of penalties on Google, the owner of YouTube, for allegedly violating children's online privacy and allowing ads to target them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google profits handsomely from selling advertising to kid-directed programs that it packages,\" said Jeff Chester, director of the Center for Digital Democracy, one of the groups that drafted the complaint. \"It makes deals with producers and distributors of kids' online programs worldwide. Google has built a global and very lucrative business based on kids' deep connections to YouTube.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube's business model relies on tracking IP addresses, search history, device identifiers, location and other personal data about its users so that it can gauge their interests and tailor advertising to them. But that model isn't supposed to work for U.S. children, who are protected by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a 20-year-old law that prohibits internet companies from knowingly collecting personal data from kids under 13 without their parents' consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition accuses YouTube of violating COPPA and deliberately profiting off luring children into what Chester calls an \"ad-filled digital playground\" where commercials for toys, theme parks or sneakers can surface alongside kid-oriented videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube said in an emailed statement that it \"will read the complaint thoroughly and evaluate if there are things we can do to improve. Because YouTube is not for children, we've invested significantly in the creation of the YouTube Kids app to offer an alternative specifically designed for children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That toddler-oriented YouTube Kids app, launched in 2015, offers more parental controls but is not widely used — and uses the same videos and channels that kids can also find on the regular YouTube service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's not known if the FTC will take action, the complaint comes at a time of increased public scrutiny over the tech industry's mining of personal data and after the FTC opened an investigation last month into Facebook's privacy practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About Privacy Concerns Among Tech Giants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657953/ftc-confirms-facebook-investigation-on-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Senate, FTC, State AGs Want to Know More About Data Privacy at Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660746/as-views-of-tech-turn-negative-remorse-comes-to-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Views of Tech Turn Negative, Remorse Comes to Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650102/tech-giants-under-pressure-over-russian-opposition-leaders-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tech Giants Under Pressure Over Russian Opposition Leader's Posts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like (the FTC) may be more reinvigorated and ready to take these issues seriously,\" said Josh Golin, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which drafted the complaint along with the Center for Digital Democracy and a Georgetown University law clinic. Several other groups have signed on, including Common Sense Media, which runs a popular website for families, and the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the day of reckoning has arrived,\" said U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who co-authored COPPA in the 1990s and says he wants the FTC to look into the YouTube complaint. \"Americans want to know the answers as to whether or not the privacy of their children is being compromised in the online world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FTC spokeswoman Juliana Gruenwald Henderson said in an email that the agency hasn't yet received the letter but looks forward to reviewing it. The complaint was originally scheduled to be filed last week but was delayed after the shooting on Tuesday at YouTube's California headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take enforcement of COPPA very seriously and have brought more than two dozen COPPA cases since the COPPA rule was enacted,\" she said. The FTC's investigations aren't usually public, but it has previously settled child privacy cases with Yelp, mobile advertising network inMobi and electronic toy-maker VTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of those platforms are as popular for kids as YouTube, which has toddler-themed channels with names like ChuChuTV nursery rhymes, which as of last week counted more than 16 million subscribers and 13.4 billion views. It also has more personality-driven programs that cater to preteens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former FTC attorney who now advises companies on COPPA compliance said a case against YouTube would not be straightforward because it's a general-audience service, making it hard to tell if parents are curating content for their kids to watch or letting them use it on their own. Kandi Parsons said the FTC hasn't yet set its targets on kid-directed channels within broader media websites, though that doesn't mean it won't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the FTC thought that a service was directed to children and it was delivering online targeted advertising without consent, that could be a violation,\" Parsons said. She said the FTC could send Google a civil subpoena seeking more information, and also use other techniques to find out how the service is tracking its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say Google knows what it is doing. They point to its \"Google Preferred\" program that allows advertisers on YouTube to pay a premium to get their ads on the most popular videos. The program includes a \"Parenting & Family Lineup\" that has featured channels such as ChuChu TV, Fox's BabyTV and Seven Super Girls, whose topics include \"fluffy unicorn slime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube does \"age-gate\" to block children who identify themselves as under 13 from starting an account that allows users to post videos, but an account isn't needed to watch videos on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's laughable if Google execs claim that they think the parent is in charge of the online viewing behaviors of tens of millions of children,\" Chester said. \"Children are watching this content by themselves. Google is trying to look the other way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chester, who helped create COPPA in the 1990s, said he's confident that the FTC will take a serious look after years of letting Google off the hook for pretending that kids weren't using YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They created a successful model monetizing kids' data on YouTube and really did not want to think about the consequences,\" he said. \"Google is one of those companies that has failed to address its ethical dilemmas in a serious way.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Complaint alleges that Google subsidiary violated children's online privacy and allowed ads to target them.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523314463,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1110},"headData":{"title":"Child Advocates and Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Investigate YouTube | KQED","description":"Complaint alleges that Google subsidiary violated children's online privacy and allowed ads to target them.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11660761 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11660761","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/09/child-advocates-ask-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-youtube/","disqusTitle":"Child Advocates and Consumer Groups Ask FTC to Investigate YouTube","nprByline":"Matt O'Brian\u003cbr/>Associated Press\u003c/br>","path":"/news/11660761/child-advocates-ask-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-youtube","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Read carefully through the fine print of YouTube's terms of service and you might notice that you've affirmed you are old enough to watch it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use the service,\" the terms say. \"There are lots of other great web sites for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a warning that goes unheeded by millions of children around the world who visit YouTube to watch cartoons, nursery rhymes, science experiments or videos of toys being unboxed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a formal complaint being filed Monday, child advocates and consumer groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and impose potentially billions of dollars of penalties on Google, the owner of YouTube, for allegedly violating children's online privacy and allowing ads to target them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Google profits handsomely from selling advertising to kid-directed programs that it packages,\" said Jeff Chester, director of the Center for Digital Democracy, one of the groups that drafted the complaint. \"It makes deals with producers and distributors of kids' online programs worldwide. Google has built a global and very lucrative business based on kids' deep connections to YouTube.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube's business model relies on tracking IP addresses, search history, device identifiers, location and other personal data about its users so that it can gauge their interests and tailor advertising to them. But that model isn't supposed to work for U.S. children, who are protected by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a 20-year-old law that prohibits internet companies from knowingly collecting personal data from kids under 13 without their parents' consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition accuses YouTube of violating COPPA and deliberately profiting off luring children into what Chester calls an \"ad-filled digital playground\" where commercials for toys, theme parks or sneakers can surface alongside kid-oriented videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube said in an emailed statement that it \"will read the complaint thoroughly and evaluate if there are things we can do to improve. Because YouTube is not for children, we've invested significantly in the creation of the YouTube Kids app to offer an alternative specifically designed for children.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That toddler-oriented YouTube Kids app, launched in 2015, offers more parental controls but is not widely used — and uses the same videos and channels that kids can also find on the regular YouTube service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it's not known if the FTC will take action, the complaint comes at a time of increased public scrutiny over the tech industry's mining of personal data and after the FTC opened an investigation last month into Facebook's privacy practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About Privacy Concerns Among Tech Giants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657953/ftc-confirms-facebook-investigation-on-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Senate, FTC, State AGs Want to Know More About Data Privacy at Facebook\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660746/as-views-of-tech-turn-negative-remorse-comes-to-silicon-valley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Views of Tech Turn Negative, Remorse Comes to Silicon Valley\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650102/tech-giants-under-pressure-over-russian-opposition-leaders-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tech Giants Under Pressure Over Russian Opposition Leader's Posts\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It seems like (the FTC) may be more reinvigorated and ready to take these issues seriously,\" said Josh Golin, director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which drafted the complaint along with the Center for Digital Democracy and a Georgetown University law clinic. Several other groups have signed on, including Common Sense Media, which runs a popular website for families, and the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the day of reckoning has arrived,\" said U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat who co-authored COPPA in the 1990s and says he wants the FTC to look into the YouTube complaint. \"Americans want to know the answers as to whether or not the privacy of their children is being compromised in the online world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FTC spokeswoman Juliana Gruenwald Henderson said in an email that the agency hasn't yet received the letter but looks forward to reviewing it. The complaint was originally scheduled to be filed last week but was delayed after the shooting on Tuesday at YouTube's California headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take enforcement of COPPA very seriously and have brought more than two dozen COPPA cases since the COPPA rule was enacted,\" she said. The FTC's investigations aren't usually public, but it has previously settled child privacy cases with Yelp, mobile advertising network inMobi and electronic toy-maker VTech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of those platforms are as popular for kids as YouTube, which has toddler-themed channels with names like ChuChuTV nursery rhymes, which as of last week counted more than 16 million subscribers and 13.4 billion views. It also has more personality-driven programs that cater to preteens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former FTC attorney who now advises companies on COPPA compliance said a case against YouTube would not be straightforward because it's a general-audience service, making it hard to tell if parents are curating content for their kids to watch or letting them use it on their own. Kandi Parsons said the FTC hasn't yet set its targets on kid-directed channels within broader media websites, though that doesn't mean it won't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the FTC thought that a service was directed to children and it was delivering online targeted advertising without consent, that could be a violation,\" Parsons said. She said the FTC could send Google a civil subpoena seeking more information, and also use other techniques to find out how the service is tracking its users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say Google knows what it is doing. They point to its \"Google Preferred\" program that allows advertisers on YouTube to pay a premium to get their ads on the most popular videos. The program includes a \"Parenting & Family Lineup\" that has featured channels such as ChuChu TV, Fox's BabyTV and Seven Super Girls, whose topics include \"fluffy unicorn slime.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YouTube does \"age-gate\" to block children who identify themselves as under 13 from starting an account that allows users to post videos, but an account isn't needed to watch videos on the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's laughable if Google execs claim that they think the parent is in charge of the online viewing behaviors of tens of millions of children,\" Chester said. \"Children are watching this content by themselves. Google is trying to look the other way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chester, who helped create COPPA in the 1990s, said he's confident that the FTC will take a serious look after years of letting Google off the hook for pretending that kids weren't using YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They created a successful model monetizing kids' data on YouTube and really did not want to think about the consequences,\" he said. \"Google is one of those companies that has failed to address its ethical dilemmas in a serious way.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11660761/child-advocates-ask-federal-trade-commission-to-investigate-youtube","authors":["byline_news_11660761"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_2103","news_93","news_2414","news_22585"],"featImg":"news_11660868","label":"news_72"},"news_11657953":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11657953","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11657953","score":null,"sort":[1522099822000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ftc-confirms-facebook-investigation-on-privacy","title":"U.S. Senate, FTC, State AGs Want to Know More About Data Privacy at Facebook","publishDate":1522099822,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:30 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. regulators, state attorneys general and the U.S. Senate are increasing pressure on Facebook as they probe whether the company's data collection practices have hurt the people who use its services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Trade Commission confirmed news reports on Monday that it was investigating the company. Separately, the attorneys general for 37 U.S. states and territories sought details Monday on how Facebook monitored what app developers did with data collected on Facebook users and whether Facebook had safeguards to prevent misuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has also invited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657214/zuckerberg-breaks-silence-promises-to-protect-facebook-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u003c/a> to testify at a hearing next month on data privacy. Grassley says the April 10 hearing will cover how consumer data are collected, retained and distributed for commercial use. He says the hearing also will examine what steps companies like Facebook can take to better protect personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's committee is the third congressional panel to seek Zuckerberg's testimony in the wake of a privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a Trump-connected data-mining company. Several Judiciary Committee members had pressed Grassley to hold the hearing, to which Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have also been invited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook's privacy practices have come under fire after revelations that Cambridge Analytica got data on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657315/heres-the-data-facebook-has-on-users-and-how-the-company-gathers-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of Facebook users\u003c/a>. That included information on friends of people who had downloaded a psychological quiz app, even though those friends hadn't given explicit consent to sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook is also facing questions about reports that it collected years of contact names, telephone numbers, call lengths and information about text messages \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657930/facebook-responds-to-concerns-over-collecting-android-call-text-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Android users\u003c/a>. Facebook says the data are used \"to improve people's experience across Facebook\" by helping to connect with others. But the company did not spell out exactly what it used the data for or why it needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>European officials also have also been investigating or seeking more information. Germany's justice minister said Monday that she wants closer oversight of companies such as Facebook after a meeting with its executives about the abuse of users' data. Last week, a U.K. parliamentary media committee summoned Zuckerberg to testify about how Facebook uses data, while U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham is investigating how Cambridge Analytica got the data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the state's attorney of Cook County in Illinois has sued Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for consumer fraud after revelations that the latter obtained data on millions of Facebook users. Facebook has not commented on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent troubles follow Facebook's most difficult year yet, as the company dealt with fake news, \"filter bubbles\" that lead to increasing divisions, and congressional hearings over Russian agents' alleged use of social media to meddle with the 2016 presidential elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Zuckerberg set fixing Facebook as his personal challenge for 2018. 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Separately, the attorneys general for 37 U.S. states and territories sought details Monday on how Facebook monitored what app developers did with data collected on Facebook users and whether Facebook had safeguards to prevent misuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he has also invited \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657214/zuckerberg-breaks-silence-promises-to-protect-facebook-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg\u003c/a> to testify at a hearing next month on data privacy. Grassley says the April 10 hearing will cover how consumer data are collected, retained and distributed for commercial use. He says the hearing also will examine what steps companies like Facebook can take to better protect personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grassley's committee is the third congressional panel to seek Zuckerberg's testimony in the wake of a privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a Trump-connected data-mining company. Several Judiciary Committee members had pressed Grassley to hold the hearing, to which Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey have also been invited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook's privacy practices have come under fire after revelations that Cambridge Analytica got data on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657315/heres-the-data-facebook-has-on-users-and-how-the-company-gathers-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of Facebook users\u003c/a>. That included information on friends of people who had downloaded a psychological quiz app, even though those friends hadn't given explicit consent to sharing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook is also facing questions about reports that it collected years of contact names, telephone numbers, call lengths and information about text messages \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657930/facebook-responds-to-concerns-over-collecting-android-call-text-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from Android users\u003c/a>. Facebook says the data are used \"to improve people's experience across Facebook\" by helping to connect with others. But the company did not spell out exactly what it used the data for or why it needed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>European officials also have also been investigating or seeking more information. Germany's justice minister said Monday that she wants closer oversight of companies such as Facebook after a meeting with its executives about the abuse of users' data. 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Nearly three months in, it seems like a tall order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Pahl, acting director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said the U.S. probe would include whether the company engaged in \"unfair acts\" that cause \"substantial injury\" to consumers. Facebook reached a settlement with the FTC in 2011 offering privacy assurances, though the FTC's probe may extend to Facebook's compliance with U.S.-EU principles for transferring data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook said in a statement on Monday that the company remains \"strongly committed\" to protecting people's information and that it welcomes the opportunity to answer the FTC's questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, believes Facebook was in violation of the 2011 settlement in letting Cambridge Analytica harvest data on friends of Facebook users. He called the investigation \"good news.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what Facebook was doing 10 years ago that people objected to, what the FTC should have stopped in 2011,\" Rotenberg said. \"It makes zero sense that when a person downloads their apps, they have the ability to transfer the data of their friends.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Zuckerberg talked about changes in 2014 that would have prevented this, Rotenberg said it should have been banned already under the 2011 consent decree. 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