United States Vs. Facebook
One of the cases that caught public attention is that between Facebook and the United States, with the United States being the complainant and Facebook being the defendant. The main issue, in this case, was that of the violation of privacy policy by Facebook. The defendant is said to have exposed the privacy data of the clients to third parties. This happened after Facebook erroneously changed its privacy settings. As a result, data from the clients of the company were revealed to third parties without their knowledge or prior consent. The malpractice by Facebook led to the unauthorized transfer of more than 50 million user profiles to the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which mined data from Facebook without consent from the users. In order to prevent this from recurring in future, the court directed Facebook to always carry out privacy audits on a regular basis. Apart from that, Facebook was also required to establish a comprehensive privacy program.
In my opinion, the decision made to conduct regular privacy audit makes a lot of sense. However, the frequency of the audits should be well outlined and is advisable that this Kersten, G. E., Mikolajuk, Z., & Yeh, A. G.-O. (2000).should be done more often as hackers of the system are always active. Besides that, the decision to come up with a comprehensive privacy program also serves right in this case. The reason behind this is that such program may help in ensuring that strict policies and procedures are implemented and followed in regard to privacy.