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FTC Revises Child Online Privacy Protection Act, Now Includes Social Networks & Apps
12/19/2012, New times require new rules. That is why the Federal Trade Commission is updating its decade-old rule surrounding children’s online privacy. This time, the FTC wants to include social networks and smartphone apps. The report comes after a complaint was [...]
Consumer Watchdog appeals to the FTC to break up Google’s business
11/16/2012, Saying that Google is a big company might seem like an understatement – after all they own Android, one of the most popular smartphone platforms in the market at the moment, YouTube, Gmail, Google+ and let’s not forget their core [...]
FTC could sue Google and Motorola over abuse of standard-essential patents
11/02/2012, It seems rather ironic that after Apple had offered to pay Motorola $1 for every iPhone to license Motorola’s standard-essential patents, that some of the FTC’s staff have suggested that the agency’s commissioners should sue Google over their abuse of [...]
FTC Weighs on Facial Recognition Data and Services
10/22/2012, It’s not new that Facial Recognition does work: London had built an extensive security apparatus around that in recent years. There is also no question that the technology itself has become very reliable, but what’s new is that it has [...]
FTC shuts down telemarketing scammers posing as tech support
10/03/2012, The FTC today froze the assets of 14 companies involved in a long-term scam. These companies, usually based in India, cold-called up English-speaking consumers posing as a representative of a major tech company, such as Microsoft, Symantec (makers of Norton [...]
FTC declines to fine companies who sold 10000s of laptops with spyware preinstalled
09/26/2012, Earlier today, we noted an FTC settlement which shows that seven rent-to-own business sold PCs with installed spyware that secretly collect consumer information. The software is designed by a possibly-defunct company called DesignerWare, and the FTC estimates that over 420,000 [...]
Google could be fined $22.5 million for bypassing Safari privacy settings
07/10/2012, Google has been in hot soup before due to issues of privacy, but its latest run in with the law seems to be pretty severe. A number of months ago, the search engine juggernaut was reportedly circumventing users’ privacy settings [...]
Google could face fines up to $10 million over Apple’s Safari browser issue
05/07/2012, For those unfamiliar, back in February according to Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, it was discovered that Google was “planting” cookies on Apple’s Safari browser and ultimately bypassed some of Apple’s software privacy settings. While not malicious in nature, it basically allowed [...]
W3 Innovations fined $50,000 by FTC for collecting children’s info on their apps
08/16/2011, The collection of user data is a sensitive issue as it raises all sorts of questions regarding privacy. It can be as innocent as requesting for an email address and right down to questionable when collecting and storing a user’s [...]
FTC Suggests ‘Do Not Track’ Option for Websites, Browsers
12/01/2010, In a draft on privacy regulation, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that companies are slow to adopt privacy rules and that self-regulation may not be enough. Taking that a step further, the agency is recommending that companies add [...]
