50亿美元!Facebook接受史上最大罚单,还将作出这些改变(组图)
据美国联邦贸易委员会网站24日公开信息,联邦贸易委员(FTC)将对Facebook处以50亿美元的罚款,并对其全面实施新的隐私限制。
文中提到,Facebook因侵犯用户信息隐私而收到了史无前例的最高金额罚款:
Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to new restrictions and a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable for the decisions it makes about its users’ privacy, to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information.
Facebook公司将支付创纪录的50亿美元罚金,并提交新的限制条件,改进公司结构,使得公司对其有关用户隐私的决定负责。这些惩罚,以期解决联邦贸易委员会对该公司违反2012年指令的指控——在用户能否控制他们个人信息的隐私上,对用户所做出的欺骗。
The $5 billion penalty against Facebook is the largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy and almost 20 times greater than the largest privacy or data security penalty ever imposed worldwide. It is one of the largest penalties ever assessed by the U.S. government for any violation.
Facebook被处以50亿美元的罚款,这是有史以来针对侵犯消费者隐私的公司开出的最高罚单,这几乎是全球有史以来对隐私或数据安全开出的最高罚单的20倍。这是美国政府评估过的、对于任何违法行为所作出的最大处罚之一。
▲FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook (via ftc.gov)
这些年来,Facebook用户数据和隐私的不安全性总处在舆论的风口浪尖。FTC对Facebook的调查源于2018年3月有爆料称,有超过5000万名Facebook用户资料遭剑桥分析公司窃取分析,并用来向用户发送政治广告:
(via The Guardian)
除了50亿美元的巨额罚款外,FTC还要求Facebook作出这些改变......
1.Facebook董事会将成立一个“隐私委员会”
The settlement establishes an independently-appointed privacy committee to be incorporated into Facebook’s board and the committee will focus on the company’s data-protection efforts and risks. The committee will work with an independent assessor and have compliance officers who can be fired only by the committee.
该项和解措施建立了一个将被纳入Facebook董事会独立任命的隐私委员会,该委员会将专注于该公司的数据保护和风险(控制)工作。该委员会将与一名独立的评估人员合作,并拥有只能由委员会解雇的合规官员。
2.当用户数据有被滥用的风险时,Facebook需要进行快速报告
If user data is compromised, for instance in a cyber attack, Facebook will need to quickly flag the incident to the FTC and the third-party assessor.
如果用户数据被泄露,例如遭到网络攻击时,Facebook将须迅速向FTC和第三方评估者报告该事件。
The settlement terms say when the data of at least 500 users is compromised, the company has 30 days from the time of discovery to tell the FTC and the assessor about the incident and remediation steps. If the problem persists, Facebook needs to keep the agency and assessor up to date until there’s a solution.
和解条款规定,当至少500名用户的数据被泄露时,该公司有30天时间从发现之日起向FTC和评估人员报告事件、寻求补救措施。如果这个问题仍然存在,Facebook需要让该机构和评估人员了解最新情况,直到找到解决方案。
3.Facebook必须在用户面试识别时给出“清晰而显著”的通知
One way Facebook violated its 2012 order was “implying” to some 60 million users they could choose to activate facial-recognition technology when posting videos and photos, the FTC said. But the technology was already turned on by default for those users, the agency said.
FTC表示,Facebook违反2012年禁令的一个原因是,它向约6000万用户“暗示”了可以选择在发布视频和照片时激活面部识别技术。但该委员会表示,这些用户已经默认开启了这项技术。
The site also needs to get the user’s consent before it uses the facial recognition data in any way that could exceed what users have already agreed to in their privacy settings.
Facebook还须要获得用户的同意,才能使用可能超过用户在隐私设置中已同意的任何面部识别数据。
▲This is what Facebook’s $5 billion fine means for you — and your privacy (via MarketWatch)
此外,政府对Facebook进行的这些监督将长达20年,且其监督还将囊括Facebook所有子公司,如 Instagram,WhatsApp,Oculus 等。
24日,Facebook创始人兼首席执行官马克·扎克伯格发帖,称支持这一解决方案。
在文末,他表示:
As we build our privacy-focused vision for the future of social networking that I outlined earlier this year, it's critical we get this right. The next focus for our company is to build privacy protections as strong as the best services we provide. I'm committed to doing this well and delivering the best private social platform for our community.
正如我在今年早些时候概述的那样,当我们为社交网络的未来构建以隐私为重点的愿景时,将事情做对至关重要。我们公司的下一个重点是,建立同我们提供的最好服务一样强大的隐私保护。我致力于做好这件事,并为我们的社区提供最好的私人社交平台。
不少网友表达了他们对此的认可和支持:
哇,这真是个好消息……我会充满希望地等待你关于最佳隐私政策的伟大尝试。祝你一切顺利。祝贺你
马克,感谢你所做出的完善,以及你和团队所做的一切。
然而,巨额罚款和多项监督,似乎并没能让另外的许多网友感到满意:
这非常令人失望。这一和解协议并没有改变Facebook对其用户的可怕监控,以及对用户数据的滥用。它没法让让高管们承担责任。它也完全没以任何有效的方式惩罚到Facebook。
扎克伯格为了利润而出售我们的数据,他被罚款,为什么我们一毛钱也拿不到呢?毕竟他卖的是我们的数据。这家伙该进监狱了,他权力太大了,又太贪得无厌了。我真想让他永远被关起来。剥夺他所有的一切。