. >> and our view was that, you know, it's fine for faceok to collect this data, but sharing this datathird parties without consent was a no-no. >> but at facebook, of course, we believe that our users should l of theirete cont information. >> the heart of our cases against companies like facebooke waptive conduct. that is, they did not make it clear to consumers t extent to which their personal data would be shared with third parties. >> narrator: the ftc had another lrry: they saw the potent for data to be misused bause facebook wasn't keeping track of what the third parties were doing with it. >> they had, in my view, no real antrol over the third-par developers that had access to the site.be they could hav anyone. there was no due diligence. anyone, essentially, who could develop a third-party app could get access to the site. i >> jacobcould have been somebody working for a foreign adversary. >> certainly. it cld have been somebody working... yes, for, you know, for the russian government. >> narrator: facebook settled t wi ftc without admitting guilt and, under a consent order, a