Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges facebook privacy social media Article 985 words 11 votes
Regulators and reality: The FTC's case against Facebook social media facebook Article 3025 words 5 votes
FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition facebook Article 518 words 14 votes
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google security google facebook Article 1682 words 28 votes
Big Tech is trying to disarm the FTC by going after its biggest weapon: Lina Khan amazon facebook Article 1330 words 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 social media privacy Article 233 words 29 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 Article 5523 words 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 internet Article 20 votes
The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft amazon apple facebook microsoft Article 618 words 15 votes
FTC weighs seeking preliminary injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how its apps interact facebook social media privacy Article 915 words 3 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 privacy social media Video 6:44 16 votes
Google and YouTube will pay record $170 million for alleged violations of children’s privacy law google privacy Article 1003 words 6 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 Article 428 words 25 votes
FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and sweeping new privacy restrictions on Facebook social media facebook privacy Article 2139 words 6 votes
FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion facebook social media privacy Article 1139 words 22 votes
YouTube under Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy privacy google social media Article 906 words 9 votes
Facebook faces a big penalty, but regulators are split over how big facebook social media privacy Article 1899 words 15 votes
Facebook releases Q1 2019 earnings, expects to be fined up to $5 billion by U.S. government facebook Article 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 Article 765 words 7 votes
Musical.ly/TikTok agrees to pay $5.7M to settle FTC allegations that it violated children’s privacy law privacy Article 760 words 10 votes
The US government and Facebook are negotiating a record, multibillion-dollar fine for the company’s privacy lapses facebook privacy social media Article 623 words 24 votes
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) asks FTC to investigate Google's market dominance google Article 408 words 17 votes