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Kokomo Perspective
March 29, 2018
If you're on the Do Not Call Registry, companies shouldn't call you out of the blue to try and sell you something. In fact, it's usually illegal. The FTC continues to take action against companies and telemarketers that ignore the Registry. The latest example: today the FTC announced a complaint againstÃâà...
Fortune
March 29, 2018
Former Federal Trade Commission officials say that Facebook Inc. appears to have breached a 2011 consent agreement to safeguard users' personal information and may be facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. The agency could fine Facebook up to $40,000 per violation per day — which couldÃâà...
wivb.com
March 29, 2018
(AP) -- - The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's privacy practices following a week of privacy scandals including whether the company engaged in “unfair acts” that cause “substantial injury” to consumers. Facebook's stock, which already took a big hit last week, plunged as a result.
CoinDesk
March 28, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking to permanently freeze the assets of four men accused of running cryptocurrency referral scams. The U.S. regulator also asked a federal court in Florida to order the defendants to stop working together or creating new business entities. Further, they wouldÃâà...
Yale Daily News (blog)
March 27, 2018
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Rebecca Slaughter '03 LAW '08, chief counsel to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to the Federal Trade Commission. If confirmed by the Senate, Slaughter will join a growing number of Yale graduates in the highest ranks of the TrumpÃâà...
NPR
March 27, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Facebook violated a consent decree by enabling third parties to access users' information without their permission. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former FTC official Jessica Rich about the investigation, and other measures the government couldÃâà...
WLS-TV
March 27, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission said it is opening an investigation into Facebook after news reports raised "substantial concerns about the privacy practices of ... A statement from Tom Pahl, acting director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said: "the FTC takes very seriouslyÃâà...
The Hill
March 27, 2018
“Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will make an excellent FTC commissioner and I'm proud to have recommended her to the White House,” Schumer said in a statement. “Throughout her time in public service she has worked tirelessly and effectively. I'm confident that following her confirmation, those qualities willÃâà...
NPR
March 27, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Facebook violated an agreement with the FTC in allowing users' data to be revealed secretly to ... of Congress have called for the agency to fully investigate whether the handling of Facebook user data violated a 2011 consent decree with the FTC.
NPR
March 27, 2018
He's a former senior adviser at the Federal Trade Commission. And he was there in 2011, the last time that Facebook got in trouble for failing to keep its promises about privacy. Tim Wu is skeptical that the company will change its ways anytime soon. TIM WU: The problem the FTC was confronting was theÃâà...
CNBC
March 26, 2018
Shares of Facebook cratered as much as 6 percent Monday after the Federal Trade Commission announced it is investigating the company's data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica leak of 50 million users' information. "The FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantialÃâà...
Multichannel News
March 26, 2018
Attention all those concerned about the Federal Trade Commission's enforcement of network neutrality in the absence of FCC rules: The FTC will be participating in a webinar March 27 to address those concerns. There is no fee for the 2 p.m. discussion with acting chief technologist Neil Chilson, hosted byÃâà...
13WHAM-TV
March 26, 2018
Facebook's stock, which already took a big hit last week, plunged as a result. Facebook said in a statement on Monday that the company remains "strongly committed" to protecting people's information and that it welcomes the opportunity to answer the FTC's questions.
CBS New York
March 26, 2018
Facebook reached a settlement with the FTC in 2011 offering privacy assurances. On Sunday, Facebook bought ads in U.S. and British newspapers to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The social media site is also facing new questions about collecting phone numbers and text messagesÃâà...
WRAL Tech Wire
March 26, 2018
NEW YORK – The U.S. government is officially investigating Facebook, and chief law enforcement officers for North Carolina (Josh Stein) and 36 other U.S. states and territories, are demanding answers from Facebook about user data. The Federal Trade Commission confirmed in a statement Monday that itÃâà...
Fox Business
March 26, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Monday it has opened an open, nonpublic investigation into Facebook's privacy practices, after the social media giant's announcement that British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica may have misused the data of about 50 million users to influence theÃâà...
Regulatory Focus
March 26, 2018
Delaware's District Court late last week dismissed the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) complaint against Shire's citizen petitions, but the court also left the door ... “That number is, by far, the most filings that any firm has ever made to the FDA concerning a single drug product,” FTC said in its complaint.
Omaha World-Herald
March 26, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's privacy practices following a week of privacy scandals including whether the company engaged in "unfair acts" that cause "substantial injury" to consumers. Facebook said in a statement on Monday, March 26, 2018, that the company remainsÃâà...
WRGB
March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Trade Commission has confirmed it has launched an investigation into Facebook. Monday ... Facebook said in a statement on Monday that the company remains "strongly committed" to protecting people's information and that it welcomes the opportunity to answer the FTC's questions.
ABC News
March 26, 2018
A statement from Tom Pahl, acting director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said: "the FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook." The U.S. government probe comes amid reports that data analyticsÃâà...
KSBW The Central Coast
March 26, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that it has opened an investigation into privacy practices of Facebook. The non-public investigation comes after recent press reports raising "substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook," the commission said in a statement. “The FTC isÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 26, 2018
Facebook said in a statement on Monday that the company remains “strongly committed” to protecting people's information and that it welcomes the opportunity to answer the FTC's questions. News outlets have reported on the FTC investigation last week, but the FTC hadn't confirmed it until Monday.
Chicago Tribune
March 26, 2018
Facebook's stock, which already took a big hit last week, plunged further Monday after the Federal Trade Commission confirmed news reports that it was investigating. Separately, the attorneys general for 37 U.S. states and territories sought details Monday on how Facebook monitored what app developersÃâà...
MarTech Today
March 1, 2018
FTC PrivacyCon: Your email address is leaking and vulnerable. Opening an ... A research paper delivered this morning at the Federal Trade Commission's third annual PrivacyCon shows how email addresses — the gold standard for linking personal datasets — are vulnerable to data leaks and hacking.
Techdirt
March 1, 2018
Among other things, it reaffirms that the Federal Trade Commission will once again be able to police Internet service providers after the Restoring Internet Freedom Order takes effect,” said FCC Chairman Pai. “In the months and years ahead, we look forward to working closely with the FTC to ensure theÃâà...
Bloomberg BNA
March 1, 2018
PayPal Holdings Inc. settled Feb. 27 Federal Trade Commission allegations of misleading customers about the control they have over privacy settings in its Venmo Inc. mobile payment system. The proposed administrative consent agreement alerts financial institutions operating peer-to-peer services of theÃâà...
CNBC
March 1, 2018
... to approve President Donald Trump's four nominees to the Federal Trade Commission, a spokeswoman for the committee said. On a voice vote, the panel approved the nominations of antitrust lawyer Joe Simons to chair the commission. It also approved three others nominated to be FTC commissioners,Ãâà...
SpaceCoastDaily.com
February 28, 2018
Federal Trade Commission: Tips For Using Peer-To-Peer Payment Systems and Apps. By Alvaro Puig, FTC Consumer Education Specialist // February 27, 2018. Share on Facebook ... (FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION) – Online peer-to-peer, or P2P, payment systems let you send money to people quickly. I've used them toÃâà...
The Verge
February 28, 2018
A federal appeals court has ruled against AT&T, allowing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to move ahead with its case against the telecommunications company that alleges AT&T throttled data speeds for millions of customers who purchased unlimited data plans. The case began formally as an FTCÃâà...
Fast Company
February 28, 2018
Peer-to-peer payment service Venmo, acquired by PayPal in 2013, promised users “bank-grade security systems.” But a Federal Trade Commission investigation has determined that the popular app failed to properly protect millions of users against fraud. Today, the U.S. Federal Trade CommissionÃâà...
The Hill
February 27, 2018
Since bringing its first online privacy case in 1998, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought more than 500 privacy and security-related enforcement actions and conducted more than 20 workshops and events on privacy and data security topics. The FTC has become the de facto privacy andÃâà...
CNBC
February 14, 2018
The four nominees for FTC commissioner expressed willingness to investigate big tech firms if they use power inappropriately. ... Joseph Simons, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) nominee for U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and TransportationÃâà...
