U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
I'm probably reading too much into this letter. They said they couldn't act because they were a third party. If you file a complaint, any complaint, they wouldn't be. They didn't need to write a letter for something that's already corrected. I think they did because they want something they can act upon.<p>It seems like it's spaghetti argument time, ie. throw everything against a wall and see what sticks.<p>You could argue that the privacy of people could be violated because the "privacy" of an entity that's public shouldn't <i>that</i> public according to facebook. I know, the weak point is that we can't show what privacy aspect is actually violated, but then we could argue this is reason we should investigate this.<p>If this was the BCP in my country, I could add other arguments about unfair competition and/or monopoly. But I'm not sure this is the purview of the US version of the BCP.<p>The FTC/BCP needs to follow certain rules, but this doesn't prohibit them from saying: "Hey, we can kinda work with this sort of argument, especially if you reformulate it like this"