The New York Times recently reported on how Facebook "failed to police how its partners handled user data." Embedded in the article, however, were some details about the company's 2011 consent order with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and, according to Center for Democracy & Technology Policy Counsel Joseph Jerome, CIPP/US, "it should be acknowledged that the order's continued inadequacy creates a bigger issue for the FTC." In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Jerome ponders if traditional FTC consent decrees really do effectively police privacy for consumers or "whether the consent orders themselves have become something of a privacy paper tiger." 
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