- Twitter Senior Privacy, Cybersecurity Execs Depart, Could Be Fined Billions
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, November 10, 2022
Twitter's most senior cybersecurity exec Lea Kissner departed Thursday, with other k ...
- Planned Parenthood Urges FTC To Issue Online Privacy Rules
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 10, 2022
"All data related to accessing health care must be kept confidential, includi ...
- 1-800 Contacts Urges Court To Revive Claims Over Search Ads
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 9, 2022
1-800 Contacts on Wednesday urged a court to reinstate a lawsuit accusi ...
- GOP Senators Urge FTC To Scrap Privacy Rulemaking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 7, 2022
"The FTC should not exceed its authority to set national standards f ...
- Mobile Data Broker Kochava Seeks Dismissal Of Privacy Class-Action
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 3, 2022
Mobile data broker Kochava is urging a federal judge to throw o ...
- Kochava Battles FTC Over 'Unfair' Sale Of Location Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 31, 2022
"The 'unfair' practice alleged is not, on its face, a public poli ...
- FTC Sues Online Educational Company Over Data Breaches
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 31, 2022
Educational company Chegg's "lax security" resulted in data breaches that exposed student ...
- FTC Considers New Rules To Combat Phony Reviews
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 20, 2022
"Fake and deceptive reviews and other endorsements have long been problematic, a ...
- FTC Chair Flags Concerns Over Ads To Children
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Social media and targeted advertising "changed everything," FTC Chair Lina Khan s ...
- Meta To Sell Giphy After Losing Antitrust Battle In UK
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Meta Platforms said Tuesday it will comply with the a UK regulator ...
- Twitter Pushes Judge To Toss Complaint Over Ad-Targeting Blunder
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 17, 2022
Twitter is pressing a federal judge to throw out a class-action complai ...
- FTC Should Take 'Firm Stance' On Privacy, Senator Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 14, 2022
Tech companies currently "run the industry how they want, with little rega ...
- FTC Extends Deadline To Weigh In On Commercial Surveillance
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 14, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission will accept comments regarding potential privacy rules unt ...
- Meta Urges Judge To Dismiss FTC Suit Over Supernatural Purchase
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 13, 2022
"The FTC has no viable claim here," Meta argues in papers fil ...
- Rural Broadband Providers Seek Extra Time To Address 'Commercial Surveillance'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, October 10, 2022
NTCA--The Rural Broadband Association is backing a request by the Chamber ...
- Lawmakers Urge FTC To Crack Down On Collection Of Children's Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 30, 2022
"Threats to young people online have reached a crisis point," lawmakers s ...
- Industry Groups Want More Time To Weigh In On 'Commercial Surveillance'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 28, 2022
The Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, Privacy for America and others a ...
- Daycare Apps Pose Privacy Risks, Digital Rights Group Tells FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Some daycare and early education apps "allow public access to children's phot ...
- Ad Groups Urge FTC To Rethink Proposed Revisions To Endorsement Guides
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 27, 2022
"Tags should not automatically be considered endorsements," the ANA said in commen ...
- FTC Bid To Block Supernatural Purchase Tainted By Chair's 'Bias,' Meta Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 26, 2022
Khan "has made numerous public statements that demonstrate her bias against Meta ...
- FTC Orders Amazon's Jeff Bezos And Andy Jassy To Testify About Automatic Renewals
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 22, 2022
The agency says Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy must testify in ...
- FTC Eyes Amazon's Roomba Acquisition, Demands More Information
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Amazon's planned $1.7 buyout of automatic vacuum cleaner Roomba is coming ...
- Twitter Battles With Users Over Ad-Targeting Snafu
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 20, 2022
A Maryland resident is pressing to proceed with a class-action complaint allegi ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Fog Data Science Over Location Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 19, 2022
Fog Data Science "offers law enforcement the ability to conduct mass surveillan ...
- Think Tank Urges FTC To Abandon Privacy Rulemaking
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 16, 2022
The FTC should police "hard privacy questions" case by case, but lea ...
- 'Dark Patterns' Trick Consumers Into Sharing Data, Making Purchases, FTC Report Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 15, 2022
"Our report shows how more and more companies are using digital da ...
- FTC Wants Platforms To Crack Down On Fake Reviews
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 15, 2022
"Platforms are in the best position to fix the review ecosystem ...
- Self-Regulatory Group Raises Concerns Over FTC's Privacy Initiative
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 7, 2022
The Network Advertising Initiative is raising concerns that the FTC's recent mo ...
- Mobile Data Brokers Under Fire Over Surveillance
Mobile Insider, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Mobile analytics firm Kochava, currently facing prosecution by the FTC, was su ...
- Mobile Location Data Fuels Mass Surveillance By Police, Watchdog Reports
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 1, 2022
Fog Data Science obtains location data that was collected by mobile app ...