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By Staff Writer

Feb 15 2019 12:49PM

Over the company's privacy fails.

US negotiating multibillion-dollar fine with Facebook: report

The US government and Facebook Inc are negotiating a settlement over the company's privacy lapses that could require the online social network to pay a multibillion-dollar fine, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The newspaper said that the US Federal Trade Commission and Facebook had not ...

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