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Article | 17/12/2012 Group says Nickelodeon app violates kids' privacy
Smartphone app SpongeBob Diner Dash violates U.S. law by collecting a "wide range" of personal information from children, including full names and ema...
Article | 11/12/2012 Privacy group files complaint against kids' mobile game maker
The popular mobile children's game Mobbles collects personal information from children without providing notice to parents or attempting to get parent...
Article | 10/12/2012 US FTC: Many kids' apps fail to disclose what information they share
Many mobile apps aimed at children collect and share personal data without notifying parents, potentially violating U.S. law, the Federal Trade Commis...
Article | 6/12/2012 Advocates: Free market doesn't work for online privacy
Web and mobile device users have little understanding about how much of their personal data is collected online, making it difficult to rely on free-m...
Article | 6/12/2012 US FTC opposes product bans over standards patents in Apple-Motorola dispute
Intervening in a patent dispute between Apple and Motorola Mobility, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opposed bans on the sale of products that i...
Article | 5/12/2012 US FTC bars advertising firm from sniffing browser histories
An online advertising firm accused of spying on the browser histories of consumers has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission bar...
Article | 19/11/2012 US lawmakers question FTC's antitrust investigation of Google
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission may be headed toward an "unwarranted" power grab in its antitrust investigation of Google, two lawmakers from Silico...
Article | 15/11/2012 US agencies target bogus business opportunities
Three U.S. agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogu...
Article | 2/11/2012 Facebook rolls out privacy education for new users
Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deci...
Article | 22/10/2012 FTC: Companies should limit facial recognition in some cases
Web companies using facial recognition technology should avoid identifying anonymous images of consumers to someone who could not otherwise identify t...
Article | 22/10/2012 FTC: Web analytics firm collected credit card, other personal info
A Web analytics firm has agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint accusing it of violating federal law when using its tracking softw...
Article | 13/12/2011 FTC mails out refund checks for buyers of scareware
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun to mail refund checks to computer owners who purchased so-called scareware from vendors who allegedly used...
Article | 9/12/2011 Senators, critics question ICANN's generic TLD plan
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may be moving forward too fast on a plan to sell hundreds of new generic top-level dom...
Article | 8/12/2011 DOJ investigating e-book pricing, official says
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating anticompetitive behavior in the pricing of e-books, joining the European Union, the head of the agency...
Article | 30/11/2011 Privacy groups generally cheer FTC's Facebook settlement
Privacy and technology groups generally applauded a wide-ranging settlement between Facebook and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the social-net...

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