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Senators knock FTC’s $5 billion Facebook fine as ‘woefully inadequate’

By Melissa Quinn
Published July 16, 2019 9:36pm ET
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Senators knock FTC’s $5 billion Facebook fine as ‘woefully inadequate’
Facebook will begin alerting users whose private data may have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal starting Monday. All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled “Protecting Your Information.” | (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

A $5 billion fine isn’t enough to hold Facebook accountable.

That’s the message from a bipartisan group of senators to the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, who criticized the settlement over the social media giant’s mishandling of users’ personal data.

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Ed Markey Facebook FTC Josh Hawley Mark Zuckerberg Privacy Richard Blumenthal