Bloomberg reports Facebook plans to fight the disclosure of privacy reports it submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The Electronic Privacy Information Center sued the FTC to make the privacy assessments public. EPIC has challenged redactions, which the FTC made to protect Facebook's business practices. As part of its 2011 Consent Order, Facebook has been required to send assessments to the FTC every other year over a 20-year period. Meanwhile, Business Insider reports Facebook allegedly gathered the email addresses of 1.5 million users without their consent when they started their accounts.
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