Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, May 2nd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Facebook might actually get a federally appointed privacy official.

Google lets you set a time limit on what it tracks about you.

What Apple had to pay Qualcomm, Russia might effectively leave the open web,

a Wikipedia competitor, and is the low-hanging fruit

gone for the big tech oligarchs.

Here's all the news you missed today in the world of tech.

Politico is reporting that sources are telling it that the FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement to their consent decree and privacy issues wherein Facebook might be required to a point a federally approved privacy official and create a Privacy Oversight Committee.

Now the article says the Oversight Committee would be in quotes independent but may include

Facebook board members.

There also might be a dedicated compliance officer and whom might the compliance officer turn out to be quoting

politically Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg would take the role

of designated compliance officer responsible for carrying out the company's privacy policies, the person said.

That would make him personally accountable for Facebook's handling of the issue under the proposed Facebook settlement.

The source said the FTC would essentially

have veto power over the choice of the federally approved privacy executive called an assessor

and said the new Privacy Oversight Committee would meet quarterly and issue periodic reports on the company's privacy practices.

Such changes to Facebook's structure would be in addition to paying a record setting fine of $3 billion to $5 billion, end quote.

As Kadeh Sheber tweeted, quote,

I mean as the chairman, chief executive and controlling shareholder,

Zuckerberg's personally accountable

whether you designate him so or not, end quote.

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