There is a lot of misunderstanding about how the FTC regulatory process works in cases like this, outside of securities and other financial instruments, the FTC has very little power to force legally binding fines upon companies.
What they do is issue settlements, Facebook agreed to this fine, and to the conditions surrounding it, because if they didn't they might face hard, law based regulation from Congress.
The issue here is, the FTC process relies on good faith from the companies it settles with, and Facebook has repeatedly shown to be a bad faith actor in this regard (which is why its a 5 billion dollar fine to begin with)
The only way this is going to end is with very onerous regulation from Congress.
What they do is issue settlements, Facebook agreed to this fine, and to the conditions surrounding it, because if they didn't they might face hard, law based regulation from Congress.
The issue here is, the FTC process relies on good faith from the companies it settles with, and Facebook has repeatedly shown to be a bad faith actor in this regard (which is why its a 5 billion dollar fine to begin with)
The only way this is going to end is with very onerous regulation from Congress.