Facebook MySpace privacy COPPA

In follow-up to our earlier blog post regarding recent pressure on social networking sites from law enforcement, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that his office had entered into a settlement with Facebook. The settlement resolves the Attorney General’s investigation of Facebook’s failure to fulfill public claims it made about protecting minors, which the Attorney General believed were deceptive acts and practices and false advertising in violation of New York consumer protection laws. Facebook did not admit to any wrongdoing.