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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Meta’s Fb (NASDAQ:) misplaced the most recent spherical of a court docket battle over privateness with the U.S. Federal Commerce Fee on Monday after a federal decide dominated the regulator can search to scale back the amount of cash the social media firm makes from customers underneath 18.
The decide dominated that Fb should face a evaluation of an earlier settlement that it struck with the FTC.
Choose Timothy Kelly of the U.S. District Courtroom for the District of Columbia denied a movement filed by Meta for the court docket to take over the combat.
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 court docket had no jurisdiction. A fee resolution will be appealed to the related appeals court docket.
The FTC proposed altering a settlement reached in 2019 which required Fb to pay $5 billion. The FTC mentioned it will tighten that to bar Fb from making a living off knowledge collected on customers underneath age 18, together with in its digital actuality enterprise. It might additionally face expanded limitations on utilizing facial recognition know-how.
Fb didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
