U.S. federal judge rules against Meta in privacy fight with FTC By Reuters

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Meta’s Fb (NASDAQ:) misplaced the most recent spherical of a courtroom battle over privateness with the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee on Monday after a federal choose dominated the regulator can search to cut back the amount of cash the social media firm makes from customers below 18.

The choose dominated that Fb should face a evaluate of an earlier settlement that it struck with the FTC.

Decide Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Court docket for the District of Columbia denied a movement filed by Meta for the courtroom to take over the struggle.

The FTC has argued that it was as much as the company to determine whether or not its settlements needs to be modified and that the district courtroom had no jurisdiction. A fee resolution may be appealed to the related appeals courtroom.

The FTC proposed altering a settlement reached in 2019 which required Fb to pay $5 billion. The FTC stated it might tighten that to bar Fb from making a living off information collected on customers below age 18, together with in its digital actuality enterprise. It could additionally face expanded limitations on utilizing facial recognition expertise.

Fb didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.