FTC Confirms It's Investigating Facebook For Possible Privacy Violations
The agency will look at whether the social network violated a 2011 consent decree when users' data was revealed to political strategists.
by Laura Sydell
Mar 26, 2018
2 minutes
Updated at 7:50 p.m. ET
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that the possible misuse of the personal information of as many as 50 million Facebook users. The probe comes after the social network admitted it suspended a firm that worked on behalf of the Trump campaign to use personal information gathered on Facebook to target
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