- FTC Urged To Ban 'Surveillance Advertising'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 29, 2021
"Surveillance advertising" is unfair to consumers and harms competition by enabling compani ...
- Ad Industry Says $1 Billion For FTC Should Be Accompanied By National Privacy Law
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 27, 2021
"The U.S. needs both a strong privacy regulator and a rational, comprehensi ...
- FTC Chief Aims To Take On 'Most Significant Actors'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 24, 2021
FTC Chair Lina Khan suggested this week that she plans to devo ...
- FTC Urged To Pass Privacy Rules, Require Companies To Obtain Consumers' Consent
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 21, 2021
"Consumer privacy has become a consumer crisis," nine Senate Democrats say ...
- Health Apps Must Notify Consumers About Unauthorized Disclosures, FTC Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Apps "are routinely caught playing fast and loose with user data, leavi ...
- Biden Taps Privacy Expert Bedoya For FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 13, 2021
Bedoya, who is founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technolo ...
- House Democrats Propose $1 Billion For FTC To Create New Privacy Division
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 10, 2021
House Democrats are floating a proposal to allocate $1 billion to t ...
- FTC Unseals Allegations Against Facebook, Including Monthly User Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The FTC on Wednesday unsealed a host of previously secret material involvi ...
- Coalition Of Advocacy Groups Urges FTC Chief To Block Amazon MGM Buy
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, September 1, 2021
This is the second coalition this month to ask the agency ...
- Court Confirms 1-800 Contacts' Antitrust Victory Against FTC
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 26, 2021
In a defeat for the Federal Trade Commission, a federal appeals cou ...
- Google Battles New Mexico Over Attempt To Revive Claims Of Students' Privacy Violations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Last year, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas alleged in a lawsu ...
- Google And New Mexico Reach Settlement Over Children's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 23, 2021
If finalized, the deal will resolve claims that AdMob facilitated tracking f ...
- 1-800 Contacts Sues Warby Parker Over Search Advertising
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, August 20, 2021
"Instead of independently developing its own brand awareness related to the onli ...
- Facebook Critics Cheer FTC's New Antitrust Case
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, August 19, 2021
"Big technology companies like Facebook should not have free reign to impo ...
- T-Mobile Hack Spurs Call For Crackdown On Data Retention
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 18, 2021
T-Mobile's widely publicized data breach involving the theft of Social Security number ...
- FTC Says 1-800 Contacts' Court Victory Threatens Online Competition
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 9, 2021
"Restricting search-based advertising can harm competition by leaving consumers in the dark ...
- Lawmakers Question Facebook Over Shutdown Of NYU Political Ad Research
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 9, 2021
"While we agree that Facebook must safeguard user privacy, it is similar ...
- Aristotle Removed From COPPA 'Safe Harbor' Program
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, August 4, 2021
The FTC has removed Aristotle from the roster of self-regulatory organizations authoriz ...
- Zoom Agrees To $85 Million Settlement Over Encryption, Data Sharing And Zoombombing
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 3, 2021
Video-conferencing service Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle ...
- New York, Other States Want Appellate Court To Revive Antitrust Case Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 29, 2021
A coalition of states led by New York will ask an appella ...
- FTC's Slaughter Suggests Agency Will Scrutinize Behavioral Advertising
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, July 27, 2021
"Can we move away from the outdated notice-and-consent model to govern questio ...
- Clearview Draws Support In Privacy Battle Over Faceprints
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, July 26, 2021
"In the United States, privacy laws cannot ban the collection, analysis, ...
- FTC Gets Extra Time To Beef Up Antitrust Case Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 23, 2021
The FTC was granted an additional three weeks to reformulate its antitru ...
- Bill Would Allow FTC To Fine Companies Over Privacy Violations
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 16, 2021
"For too long, the FTC has been hamstrung in its ability ...
- FTC Chair Shouldn't Participate In Antitrust Case, Facebook Argues
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Facebook aims to disqualify FTC chair Lina Khan from participating in a ...
- FTC Urged To Continue Antitrust Battle With Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 2, 2021
"It is essential that the Commission take action to deter anticompetitive condu ...
- Amazon Seeks To Disqualify FTC Chair From Antitrust Probe
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, June 30, 2021
FTC head Lina Khan should refrain from investigating or prosecuting Amazon ov ...
- Court Dismisses FTC And State Antitrust Cases Against Facebook
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 28, 2021
"The existence of market power is at the heart of any monopolizati ...
- Google Gives Ad-Tech Companies A Reprieve... For Now
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, June 24, 2021
Google's decision to delay its cookie-blocking plan might benefit ad-tech companies ...
- Big-Tech Critic Lina Khan Takes Helm At FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Khan, who was approved Tuesday by a Senate vote of 69-28, w ...