Facebook Worries Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices

Apparently, Facebook uncovered emails that appear to connect Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to potentially problematic privacy practices at the company. Within the company, the unearthing of the emails in the process of responding to a continuing federal privacy investigation has raised concerns that they would be harmful to Facebook—at least from a public-relations standpoint—if they were to become public. The potential impact of the internal emails has been a factor in the tech giant’s desire to reach a speedy settlement of the investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Facebook is operating under a 2012 consent decree with the agency related to privacy, and the emails sent around that time suggest that Zuckerberg and other senior executives didn’t make compliance with the FTC order a priority.