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- Reddit stock is in high demand. Its IPO is set to debut March 21, but several days ago the FTC opened an inquiry into the company's AI licensing deals like the one it inked with Google.
- Privacy laws that require companies to obtain consumers' consent don't go far enough, a new report suggests.
- "Companies that make false claims about anonymization can expect to hear from the FTC," Kristin Cohen, acting associate director for the division of privacy and identity protection, writes.
- "While we agree that Facebook must safeguard user privacy, it is similarly imperative that Facebook allow credible academic researchers and journalists like those involved in the Ad Observatory project to conduct independent research that will help illuminate how the company can better tackle misinformation, disinformation, and other harmful activity that is proliferating on its platforms," three Senate Democrats say in a letter sent Monday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
- Google continues to mislead parents by representing that apps on the Play Store intended for young children under the age of 13 comply with a federal law regarding children's privacy, advocates say in a new FTC complaint.
- FTC economist Devesh Raval shows how fake online reviews can account for about half the higher average ratings for low-quality businesses on Google, compared with Yelp. He also analyzes ratings on Amazon, HomeAdvisor, and Facebook.
- Rich led the creation of the FTC's children's privacy and financial data rules and the Office of Technology.
- The deal requires Unroll.Me, owned by Slice Technologies, to delete data about some consumers, and to refrain from misrepresenting its data practices.
- The August 9 Policy Blog "Unroll.Me Duped Consumers About Privacy, FTC Says" should have stated that Unroll.Me parent company Slice Technologies sold data about consumers' email messages for market research purposes. The story has been updated.
- "Major American corporations, including online and retail businesses, employers and landlords, are using Secret Surveillance Scores to charge some people higher prices for the same product than others," the watchdog says.
- The FTC is seeking empirical research on a host of privacy and security issues.
- "The Consent Order is clear: Facebook must obtain affirmative express consent before disclosing personal data to third parties," EPIC writes in a letter to the FTC.
