- IAB Opposes New Child Privacy Rules
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 29, 2011
A proposal by the Federal Trade Commission to broaden privacy regulations ...
- FTC Closes Hyundai Probe, Broadens View Of Endorsement
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission doesn't plan to bring charges against Hyundai f ...
- FTC Asks ICANN To Scale Back Domain Plan
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 19, 2011
A planned expansion of available domain names could result in a proliferati ...
- Lawmakers Ask FTC To Probe Google For Antitrust Violations
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 19, 2011
Senators Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) and Mike Lee (R- Utah) sent the F ...
- FCC Takes Action To Tone Down Commercials
MediaDailyNews, David Goetzl - Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The FCC has put in motion a plan to ensure commercials a ...
- FTC Brings New 'Fake News' Lawsuit Against NutraSlim.com
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 1, 2011
In the latest of a string of "fake news" cases, the Feder ...
- Advocates Take Aim At Anti-Gripe Contracts
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The digital rights group Center for Democracy & Technology is urging t ...
- Social Network Skid-e-Kids Settles Privacy Charges With FTC
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 9, 2011
A social-networking service for children will delete information collected from pre-teens ...
- FTC Accuses Video Ad Network Of Using Flash Cookies For Tracking
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 8, 2011
In a first, the Federal Trade Commission has charged an ad netwo ...
- EPIC Challenges Verizon Wireless's New Privacy Policy Verizon
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Wireless' recent decision to include a host of new data about consume ...
- FTC, Google Settle Buzz Privacy Case
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 24, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it has finalized a settleme ...
- Pepsi Accused Of Deceiving Teens With Immersive Ads
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 19, 2011
PepsiCo's online marketing efforts for Doritos are deceptive and also violate teen ...
- FrostWire Settles With FTC Over Privacy Default Settings
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 12, 2011
In what appears to be the first case of its kind, t ...
- FTC's Vladeck: 'We Need To Clean Up Commerce On The Internet'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 3, 2011
Policing the Internet for deceptive ads is one of the Federal Tra ...
- Facebook 'Bug' Prompts Lawmakers To Seek FTC Probe
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Revelations this week that Facebook received data about users' Web-surfing activity, ev ...
- Lawmakers Ask FTC To Investigate 'Supercookies'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Two senior lawmakers are condemning new "supercookie" technology, which can be us ...
- Lawsuit Against Online Data Broker Dismissed
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 23, 2011
A federal judge has ruled that online data broker Spokeo won't ha ...
- Senate Antitrust Panel Questions Google's Search Results
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Lawmakers on a Senate antitrust subcommittee grilled Google executive chairman Eric Schmi ...
- Did Google Price Gouge Microsoft?
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The government is investigating whether Google illegally increased ad rates 50-fold ...
- FTC: Don't Track Kids Without Parents' Consent
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday proposed that companies be prohibited fr ...
- Privacy Icons Roll Out On Video Ads
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 25, 2011
The you-are-being-targeted icons that began rolling out on banner ads late la ...
- Privacy Advocates Ask FTC To Condemn New Tracking Methods
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Digital-rights advocates are urging the Federal Trade Commission to issue recommendations regardi ...
- Epic Abandons Controversial 'History-Sniffing' Practice
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 4, 2011
Epic Marketplace has quietly stopped using controversial "history-sniffing" techniques that enabled ...
- FTC Investigates Twitter
Around the Net in Online Marketing - Top of the News, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, July 1, 2011
As it turns out, Google might not be the only Web gia ...
- Sen. Rockefeller Touts Do-Not-Track Law
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 29, 2011
At a hearing, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W-Va.), chairman of the Commerce Committe ...
- FTC Investigates Google Over Unfair Search Results
Online Media Daily, - Thursday, June 23, 2011
Google Inc is about to receive the civil equivalent of a subpoe ...
- Google Says FTC's Concerns Unclear
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 24, 2011
Google acknowledged today on its blog and in an official filing th ...
- Chitika To Destroy Data To Settle FTC Probe
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with ad network Chitik ...
- FTC: Data Mining Company Subject To Consumer Protection Laws
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 13, 2011
The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into whether the compa ...
- Balls Of Kryptonite Stops Using UK Domain Names
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 9, 2011
The California company "Balls of Kryptonite," which operates ecommerce sites that se ...