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20 votes
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Impact: FTC stops data broker X-Mode selling sensitive location data
16 votes -
Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data
40 votes -
US Federal Trade Commission accuses Amazon of illegally protecting monopoly in online retail
42 votes -
US FTC warns tax prep companies against invasive online tracking
14 votes -
I filed a complaint against Amazon to the US Federal Trade Commission
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize. For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected...
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize.
For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected delivery date" been wrong, Amazon hasn't even shipped the product by the delivery date. The day I expect an order to arrive, I get a notice from Amazon saying it's "running late" and the new expected delivery date is anywhere from 4 to 10 days away.
This is on top of the fact that I have Amazon Prime. Prime eligible meant "it would be delivered within two days" for the better part of a decade. They slowly transitioned away from that to "two days delivery after it ships," and now it seems like half of everything takes 5-8 days to deliver, even with Prime.
Anyway, the reason I reported them to the FTC because I believe they are advertising misleading or downright incorrect delivery times in hopes of winning your business over a competitor who is honest about their delivery times. If I want a monitor and Best Buy has it for $200 with 3-5 day shipping, and Amazon advertises it being delivered on day 3, I'm probably going to go with Amazon if I'm in urgent need of a monitor. But then the third day rolls around and Amazon indicates "oh, well, it's probably going to be 3-4 more days." If I had known that, I would have just gone with Best Buy, where I know it would have at least been delivered in 5 days; now I'm stuck waiting a week for Amazon.
I don't even know if this is something the FTC cares about. But it should. I encourage everyone to report this if they've encountered the same issue.
80 votes -
US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI over technology’s potential harms
17 votes -
Antitrust case - Will the US Microsoft Activision merger go through?
12 votes -
US FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent
10 votes -
Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for US kids
6 votes -
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges
11 votes -
Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook
5 votes -
FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition
14 votes -
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google
28 votes -
The FTC votes unanimously to enforce right to repair
27 votes -
Big Tech is trying to disarm the US FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan
8 votes -
FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement
29 votes -
FTC sues Facebook for illegal monopolization
47 votes -
The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas
13 votes -
EFF calls for disclosure of secret financing details behind $1.1 billion .ORG sale including $360 million loan, and asks FTC to scrutinize deal
20 votes -
The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
15 votes -
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact
3 votes -
What's gone wrong with the FTC's COPPA agreement with YouTube
10 votes -
YouTube is requiring all new and existing videos be marked as "Made for Kids" if they're intended for children, which will disable personalized ads, end screens, comments, and more
16 votes -
Google and YouTube will pay record $170 million for alleged violations of US children’s privacy law
6 votes -
Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC investigation into YouTube over violations of children's privacy laws
7 votes -
Facebook hit with new questions over Cambridge Analytica
13 votes -
FTC announces that people who chose the $125 option from the Equifax breach will receive "nowhere near" that, and has removed it as an option
25 votes -
FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook
6 votes -
What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
7 votes -
What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
16 votes -
US FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion
22 votes -
YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
9 votes -
Facebook faces a big penalty, but US regulators are split over how big
15 votes -
Facebook releases Q1 2019 earnings, expects to be fined up to $5 billion by US government
13 votes -
Office Depot and tech support firm Support.com will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that they tricked consumers into buying costly computer repair services
7 votes -
Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law
10 votes -
The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses
24 votes -
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance
17 votes