The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday proposed a fresh round of sanctions on Facebook parent Meta, including a blanket ban on monetizing the data it collects on children and teens, after determining that the company hasn’t lived up to its promises to protect user privacy.

Meta has 30 days to respond to allegations that it continued to share its users’ private information with third-party apps well into 2020, even after touting a privacy policy in 2018 that said it would no longer share information with so-called expired apps, or apps that hadn’t been used in 90 days.

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