U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research
“The FTC received no notice that Facebook would be publicly invoking our consent decree to justify terminating academic research earlier this week.”Of course they didn't. After you are fined 5b it's no surprise you go full on defensive. What's the alternative? Asking the ftc every single time what they should do?I'm no fan of Facebook but if they didn't stop the research they could be found guilty again for the exact same reason