- Watchdogs To FTC: Block Meta Plan To Harness Chatbot Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 30, 2025
Meta's plan to target ads based on chatbot conversations "will normalize ...
- Court Preserves Block On FTC Probe Of Media Matters
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 23, 2025
A divided federal panel has preserved a preliminary injunction that prohibits t ...
- Florida AG Sues Roku Over Privacy
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier claims in a new lawsuit that Ro ...
- Trump Asks SCOTUS To Let Him Oust FTC Members At Will
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 13, 2025
"When the president removes executive officers, courts cannot reinstate them and authori ...
- FTC Gives Final Omnicom/IPG Approval, Imposes Ideological Restrictions
MediaPost Weekend, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 26, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission is imposing additional conditions on Omnicom's merger wi ...
- Amazon Settles 'Dark Patterns' Charges For $2.5 Billion
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 25, 2025
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle charges that ...
- Google Settlement Over Kids Privacy Moves Forward
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 24, 2025
A judge has granted preliminary approval to a proposed settlement requiring Goog ...
- Supreme Court Blocks Slaughter's Reinstatement To FTC
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 22, 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday said it will decide whether the preside ...
- Amazon Violated Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act, Judge Rules
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 18, 2025
Amazon broke a federal law by collecting billing information from Prime subscribe ...
- Trump Administration Presses Bid To Remove Slaughter From FTC
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 17, 2025
The Trump administration this week pressed the Supreme Court to allow h ...
- Amazon, FTC Battle Over 'Dark Patterns'
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 16, 2025
"Millions of consumers accidentally enrolled in Prime without knowledge or consent, b ...
- Slaughter Asks Supreme Court To Let Her Return To FTC
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 15, 2025
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who was ousted earlier this year ...
- Amazon, Google Reportedly Being Investigated For Search Ad Practices
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 12, 2025
The consumer production division of the FTC reportedly is investigating whether Amaz ...
- Twenty-Four States Back Trump's Bid To Oust FTC's Slaughter
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 12, 2025
"Core separation-of-powers principles, bolstered by long historical understanding, require that the Preside ...
- FTC Probes AI Chatbot Functionality For Kids
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, September 12, 2025
The FTC has ordered Meta, OpenAI, Snapchat, X, Google and Character ...
- Meta Reportedly Buried Research On VR Risks To Children
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Former Meta employees have come forward alleging that the tech giant buri ...
- Supreme Court Halts Slaughter's Reinstatement To FTC
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 8, 2025
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday granted the Trump administration ...
- Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Fire FTC's Slaughter
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 5, 2025
President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to strike down ...
- Appeals Court Reinstates Slaughter To FTC
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 3, 2025
In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court ...
- Media Matters Petitions Court To Preserve Block On FTC Probe
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 3, 2025
"Media Matters has been forced to modify operations, and organizations refuse ...
- FTC Fines Disney $10M Over Children's Privacy
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Disney allegedly uploaded cartoons and other child-directed clips to YouTube without designati ...
- FTC Warns Google Over Allegedly Partisan Spam Filters
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 28, 2025
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on Thursday warned Google over allegations that i ...
- FTC Appeals Block On Media Matters Probe
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 27, 2025
"The immediate and irreparable harm to the FTC's ad boycott investigation cal ...
- TikTok Urges Judge To Throw Out Kids' Privacy Suit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 27, 2025
TikTok's privacy policies "expressly disclose" that it collects data, the company argu ...
- FTC Media Matters Probe Likely Violates 1st Amendment, Judge Says
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 18, 2025
A federal judge has blocked the agency from attempting to force Med ...
- Meta Petitions To Reverse Privacy Verdict Over Health Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Meta Platforms is petitioning to set aside a finding that it violat ...
- Match Group Settles With FTC For $14M, Promises Simple Cancellation Method
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Online dating service Match Group has agreed to pay $14 million ...
- Meta Presses Judge To Toss Monopoly Charges
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 7, 2025
"The evidence decisively demonstrated that Meta -- once an online 'Facebook' f ...
- Media Matters Presses Bid To Halt FTC Probe
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 6, 2025
The FTC wants Media Matters to turn over documents relating to t ...
- Meta Violated California Wiretap Law, Jury Finds
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 4, 2025
The verdict stems from allegations that Meta collected ad-targeting data from t ...