- FTC Fines Twitter $150 Million Over Ad-Targeting Snafu
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Twitter agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations that it misl ...
- FTC To Unveil Proposed Revisions To Endorsement Guides
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 13, 2022
The proposed updated guidance will address topics including fake reviews and t ...
- Senate Confirms Privacy Expert Bedoya To FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Bedoya's confirmation gives the FTC a Democratic majority for the first ti ...
- NAI Raises Concerns About 'Dark Patterns,' Issues Best Practices Guide
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Dark patterns "involve obfuscation and a lack of clarity, with the likeliho ...
- Republicans Question FTC Chair About Ex-Employer's Effort To Block Musk-Twitter Deal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, May 4, 2022
"The Open Markets Institute "appears to believe that the FTC will ...
- Senate Expected To Vote This Week On Biden's FTC Pick
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, April 25, 2022
"This week, I intend for the Senate to fill the open vacan ...
- Senate Urged To Question FTC Nominee About Behavioral Targeting
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 20, 2022
"FTC is at an inflection point," The Chamber of Congress says ...
- States Press To Revive Antitrust Case Against Facebook Over Instagram, WhatsApp
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 15, 2022
"Facebook's efforts to buy or bury nascent competitors continue to harm consumer ...
- FTC Chair Suggests New Limits On Data Collection
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 15, 2022
"I am concerned that present market realities may render the 'notice a ...
- FTC Urged To Crack Down On 'Location Data' Industry
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Companies that participate in the collection and sale of location data descri ...
- Senate Paves Way To Confirm Bedoya To FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Senate on Wednesday voted 51-50 to advance the nomination of priva ...
- FTC Says TurboTax Ads Dupe Consumers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Intuit deceives consumers by claiming in ads on television, YouTube and oth ...
- Judge Throws Out Key FTC Claims Against Match.com
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 28, 2022
Largely siding with online dating service Match.com, a federal judge has thro ...
- Biden Proposes $139 Million Funding Increase For FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 28, 2022
President Joe Biden's proposed 2023 budget, unveiled Monday, includes an additional $1 ...
- Behavioral Advertising 'Warped' Phones, Should Be Banned, Watchdog Says
Mobile Insider, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 23, 2022
The influential digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has long advocat ...
- HomeAdvisor Made False, Misleading Claims About Quality Of Leads Sold To SMBs, FTC Says
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 15, 2022
The FTC's complaint alleges that since 2014, HomeAdvisor has made false, misleadi ...
- TickTalk Smartwatch Wrongly Collected Children's Data, Watchdog Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 9, 2022
"TickTalk's website and privacy policy do not effectively provide notice to paren ...
- Chamber Of Commerce Sides With YouTube In Battle Over Children's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 7, 2022
The Chamber of Commerce is urging a court to rebuff parents' reque ...
- FTC Fines Weight Watchers $1.5 Milion Over Children's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 4, 2022
Diet company Weight Watchers and its youth-oriented Kurbo subsidiary illegally collected da ...
- Biden's FTC And FCC Picks Advance In Senate
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 3, 2022
The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday voted to approve the nominations of priva ...
- YouTube, Hasbro And Others Fight Effort To Revive Children's Privacy Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 28, 2022
YouTube and a group of channel operators say the claims in ...
- FTC Urged To Monitor 'Metaverse' For Threats To Children's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 16, 2022
The FTC should monitor tech companies' use of virtual reality with ...
- Senate Committee To Vote Wednesday On FTC, FCC Nominees
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 28, 2022
Last year, President Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the FCC and Alva ...
- FTC: Social Media Scams Tripled In 2021
Digital News Daily, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 28, 2022
In 2021, consumers lost $770 million to social media scams, the F ...
- FTC: Consumers Should Opt Out Of Ad Targeting To Avoid Social Scams
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 27, 2022
"Scammers could easily use the tools available to advertisers on social med ...
- Ad Industry, Privacy Advocates Spar Over 'Surveillance Advertising'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 26, 2022
"Consumers receive virtually free access to massive amounts of information online ...
- Fashion Nova To Pay $4.2 Million For Allegedly Suppressing Bad Reviews
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Online clothing retailer Fashion Nova has agreed to pay $4.2 million ...
- Regulators Seek Comments On Mergers, 'Unique' Traits Of Digital Markets
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Looking to crack down on acquisitions that violate antitrust law, the F ...
- Facebook Must Face Some Antitrust Claims By Advertisers And Users
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 17, 2022
Facebook users can proceed with a claim that the company acquired a ...
- FTC Can Proceed With Antitrust Claims Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 11, 2022
A federal judge has rejected Facebook's request to dismiss antitrust claims stemmi ...