- Lawmakers Seek FTC Probe Of Online Math Game Over Marketing Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 26, 2021
The FTC should investigate whether Prodigy Education wrongly touts its online ma ...
- FTC To Tackle 'Dark Patterns'
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 24, 2021
"Some sites sneak extra items into a consumer's online shopping cart, ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Prodigy Math Game Over Alleged 'Bait-And-Switch' Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Prodigy Education dupes people by representing that its popular online math ga ...
- Net Neutrality Necessary For Public Safety, Groups Tell FCC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Advocacy groups including Public Knowledge, Common Cause and Free Press, as we ...
- AT&T To Pay Additional $12 Million For Throttling 'Unlimited' Subscribers
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 2, 2021
AT&T, which previously forged a $60 million settlement with the FTC, h ...
- FTC Finalizes Zoom Settlement, Despite Acting Chair's Dissent
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 1, 2021
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday it has finalized a settlement wi ...
- BOTS Catches Bots: FTC Uses Law To Nab Concert Cyber Scalpers
Marketing Daily, P.J. Bednarski - Friday, January 22, 2021
FTC settled 3 cases against ticket brokers using sophisticated technology to bypa ...
- Biden Names Slaughter Acting Chair Of FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 21, 2021
Slaughter has emerged in recent years as one of the agency's toughe ...
- FTC Chairman Simons To Step Down
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, January 19, 2021
FTC Chairman Joe Simons, who has led the agency since May 201 ...
- FTC Urged To Investigate Amazon Prime Over Cancellation Hurdles
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 14, 2021
Amazon uses "dark patterns" to manipulate people from canceling their Prime membership ...
- Fertility App Must Inform Users About Privacy Prosecution, FTC Says
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 14, 2021
In a first, the Federal Trade Commission is requiring a company prosecut ...
- Everalbum Will Delete Facial Recognition Data To Settle FTC Complaint
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 11, 2021
Facial-recognition company Everalbum will delete a trove of data gleaned from i ...
- Tapjoy Settles With FTC Over In-Game Rewards
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 7, 2021
Mobile ad platform Tapjoy has agreed to monitor the outside advertisers ...
- FTC Should Impose Tougher Terms On Zoom, Open Technology Institute Says
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 24, 2020
Zoom should be required to notify users affected by its prior cybersecuri ...
- Steve Bannon Ordered To Appear For Questioning By FTC
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon must appear for questioning by t ...
- Judge Throws Out Children's Privacy Claims Against YouTube, Channel Operators
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
A federal judge has dismissed claims that YouTube, Hasbro, the Cartoon Netwo ...
- Steve Bannon Battles FTC Over Cambridge Analytica Testimony
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 18, 2020
The FTC says it shouldn't have to wait until Bannon's criminal fra ...
- Privacy Advocates Denounce FTC's 'Unacceptable' Settlement With Zoom
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
"Zoom's unlawful business practices created substantial privacy and security risks for consume ...
- FTC Launches Broad Online Privacy Investigation
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, December 14, 2020
The FTC on Monday launched an investigation into "dangerously opaque" online pratic ...
- Removing Bad Reviews Might Deceive Consumers, FTC Suggests
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 10, 2020
The FTC is moving "deeper into the consumer review ecosystem," advertising lawy ...
- Zoom Urges Judge To Dismiss Lawsuit Over 'Zoombombing,' Data Sharing, And Encryption
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 4, 2020
Videoconferencing app Zoom, which surged in popularity this year, has asked ...
- New Mexico Wants Appeals Court To Revive Privacy Claims Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
New Mexico's top law enforcement official has appealed a trial judge's dismiss ...
- Facebook Seeks Dismissal Of BrandTotal's Counterclaims In Battle Over Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
"Facebook did nothing more than enforce its own terms," the social networki ...
- FTC Wants To Question Stephen Bannon Over Cambridge Analytica
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 20, 2020
The agency argues it needs Bannon's testimony in order to determine wheth ...
- Zoom Settles With FTC Over Encryption Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 9, 2020
Videoconferencing app Zoom, which surged in popularity due to COVID-19, will impleme ...
- FTC Economist Analyzes Review Quality On Amazon, Google, HomeAdvisor, Facebook, Yelp
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 30, 2020
FTC economist Devesh Raval shows how fake online reviews can account f ...
- Google Defeats New Mexico AG's Lawsuit Over Student's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
A federal judge has thrown out a privacy lawsuit brought by t ...
- FTC's Slaughter: Most Commissioners Support Investigation Of Ad Tech
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 25, 2020
"There's an enormously opaque black box into which our data goes th ...
- Twitter Sued Over 'Inadvertent' Use Of Phone Numbers For Advertising
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Twitter has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly drawing on user ...
- AT&T To Settle Class Action Over Throttling
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 17, 2020
AT&T has reached an "agreement in principle" to settle a long-running class-acti ...