U.S. regulators say Facebook misled parents and failed to protect the privacy of children using its Messenger Kids app, including misrepresenting the access it provided to app developers to private user data.As a result, The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed sweeping changes to a 2020 privacy order with Facebook 맥스카지노� now called Meta 맥스카지노� that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18. This would include data collected through its virtual-reality products. The FTC said the company has failed to fully comply with the 2020 order.Meta would also be subject to other limitations, including with its use of face-recognition technology and be required to provide additional privacy protections for its users.맥스카지노�Facebook has repeatedly violated its privacy promises,맥스카지노� said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC맥스카지노�s Bureau of Consumer Protection. 맥스카지노�The company맥스카지노�s recklessness has put young users at risk, and Facebook needs to answer for its failures.맥스카지노�Meta called the announcement a 맥스카지노�political stunt.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�Despite three years of continual engagement with the FTC around our agreement, they provided no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory. Let맥스카지노�s be clear about what the FTC is trying to do: usurp the authority of Congress to set industry-wide standards and instead single out one American company while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil,맥스카지노� Meta said in a prepared statement. 맥스카지노�We have spent vast resources building and implementing an industry-leading privacy program under the terms of our FTC agreement. We will vigorously fight this action and expect to prevail.맥스카지노�Facebook launched Messenger Kids in 2017, pitching it as a way for children to chat with family members and friends approved by their parents. The app doesn맥스카지노�t give kids separate Facebook or Messenger accounts. Rather, it works as an extension of a parent맥스카지노�s account, and parents get controls, such as the ability to decide with whom their kids can chat.At the time, Facebook said Messenger Kids wouldn't show ads or collect data for marketing, though it would collect some data it said was necessary to run the service.But child-development experts raised immediate concerns.In early 2018, a group of 100 experts, advocates and parenting organizations contested Facebook맥스카지노�s claims that the app was filling a need kids had for a messaging service. The group included nonprofits, psychiatrists, pediatricians, educators and the children맥스카지노�s music singer Raffi Cavoukian.맥스카지노�Messenger Kids is not responding to a need 맥스카지노� it is creating one,맥스카지노� the letter said. 맥스카지노�It appeals primarily to children who otherwise would not have their own social media accounts.맥스카지노� Another passage criticized Facebook for 맥스카지노�targeting younger children with a new product.맥스카지노�Facebook, in response to the letter, said at the time that the app 맥스카지노�helps parents and children to chat in a safer way,맥스카지노� and emphasized that parents are 맥스카지노�always in control맥스카지노� of their kids맥스카지노� activity.The FTC now says this has not been the case. The 2020 privacy order, which required Facebook to pay a $5 billion fine, required an independent assessor to evaluate the company맥스카지노�s privacy practices. The FTC said the assessor 맥스카지노�identified several gaps and weaknesses in Facebook맥스카지노�s privacy program.맥스카지노�The FTC also said Facebook, from late 2017 until 2019, 맥스카지노�misrepresented that parents could control whom their children communicated with through its Messenger Kids product.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�Despite the company맥스카지노�s promises that children using Messenger Kids would only be able to communicate with contacts approved by their parents, children in certain circumstances were able to communicate with unapproved contacts in group text chats and group video calls,맥스카지노� the FTC said.As part of the proposed changes to the FTC맥스카지노�s 2020 order, Meta would also be required to pause launching new products and services without 맥스카지노�written confirmation from the assessor that its privacy program is in full compliance맥스카지노� with the order.