Facebook’s sketchy history with users’ privacy rights is finally starting to catch up with it.
The Washington Post reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Facebook are negotiating over a “multi-billion dollar fine” to settle the FTC’s investigation into the social network’s shady privacy practices.
The Commission’s investigation began almost a year ago, when the Cambridge Analytica scandal landed: a UK data mining company found to be involved with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, accessed data about millions of its users without permission.