WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 26th January, 2019) Facebook should not be allowed to implement a plan to integrate its platform with WhatsApp and Instagram because the social media giant has repeatedly violated pledges to protect user privacy in the past and cannot be trusted in the future, US Senator Jeff Merkley warned in a press release.
"Now that Facebook plans to integrate its messaging services, we need more than mere assurances from the company that this move will not come at the expense of users' data privacy and security," Merkley said on Friday. "We cannot allow platform integration to become privacy disintegration."
Merkley noted that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) confirmed in March 2018 that Facebook's privacy practices are being investigation and that the company may be in violation of a 2011 consent decree with the FTC.
Earlier on Friday, Facebook disclosed plans to complete a technical integration with smaller platforms the company owns - WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger - by the year 2020.
