US appeals court will not block FTC from reopening Meta privacy case

WASHINGTON : A U.S. Court docket of Appeals panel on Friday rejected a ask by Meta to block the U.S. Federal Alternate Fee from reopening a probe into its Fb unit pending attraction.

The court had ruled in opposition to Meta on March 12, no topic Meta’s objections that it already paid a $5 billion stunning and agreed to a fluctuate of safeguards. The court on Friday rejected Meta’s emergency enlighten for an injunction pending attraction. The FTC needs to tighten an existing 2020 Fb privacy settlement to ban making the most of minors’ data and expand curbs on facial recognition technology. The company has accused Meta of misleading fogeys about protections for younger of us.