Facebook Previously Failed To Keep Privacy Promises, Ex-FTC Adviser Tim Wu Says

A Q&A with Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia University and coiner of the term "net neutrality."

Noel King talks to Tim Wu, who was a senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, when the agency settled with Facebook for failing to protect user privacy. Professor Wu shares his skepticism that the social media platform made its agreement with the FTC a priority. "The problem the FTC was confronting was the problem, similar to now, that there were a number of abusive apps that you installed, and then they did a lot more with your data than you thought they were. And one of the big problems is that Facebook gave you the impression that you could control your own privacy by, you know, setting the settings in certain ways, but those settings didn't do anything…They've basically broken the promise they made to the country in 2011 and the promises they kept making to everybody through these privacy settings."