Facebook Settles Deceptive Practices, Privacy Breach Claims with FTC
Facebook has settled complaints that it disregarded its users’ privacy, agreeing to establish a raft of measures to better protect its 800 million members’ data. The settlement with the U.S. Federal...
View ArticleLawsuit Seeks To Block Google’s Privacy Changes
A consumer watchdog group is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to prevent Google from making sweeping changes to its privacy policies next month. The planned revisions would enable...
View ArticleFTC Wants Voluntary Online ‘Do Not Track’ System
U.S. regulators are pressuring Internet companies to put in place by the end of the year a “Do Not Track” system that would give consumers more control over their personal data online, in a report...
View ArticleFTC Settles with Facebook Over Privacy Breaches
The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to finalize its settlement with Facebook, resolving charges that the social network exposed details about users’ lives without getting the required legal...
View ArticleBusinesses Call for Controls on Litigation Funding Firms
A business lobby group has called on the U.S. Congress to regulate companies that provide financing for commercial lawsuits, describing the practice as “coercive enterprise.” The U.S. Chamber of...
View Article1 in 20 Credit Reports Have Errors: FTC
One in 20 American consumers had mistakes on their credit reports that would have increased their interest rates on loans or caused them to pay more for insurance, the Federal Trade Commission said in...
View ArticleTop 10 Consumer Complaint Categories
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its top 10 consumer complaint categories for 2012. For the first time ever, the agency received more than two million complaints. Of the two million...
View ArticleFederal Trade Commission Moves Closer to ‘Patent Troll’ Study
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Friday took another step toward a comprehensive study of “patent trolls” – companies in the business of buying and asserting patents – to see if they are hurting...
View ArticleCourt Says FTC Can Sue Hotel Chain Over Data Breaches
A U.S. court ruled on Monday that the Federal Trade Commission can proceed with a lawsuit against hotel group Wyndham Worldwide Corp. for allegedly failing to safeguard consumers’ personal information....
View ArticleFTC Calls for Consumer Disclosure by Data Brokers
Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about “nearly all” U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators said...
View ArticleOregon Grocery Chain Sues Albertsons for $1B
The small Oregon-based grocery-store chain Haggen this week sued Albertsons for more than $1 billion in damages, alleging the supermarket giant engaged in systematic efforts to eliminate it as a viable...
View ArticleNew Jersey Urges Vigilance as Data Breaches, Online Threats Rise During Pandemic
As October’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is underway, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal warned residents of the state that data breaches, internet fraud and online threats are on...
View ArticleFTC Sues Intuit to Stop ‘Bait-and-Switch’ TurboTax Ads
The Federal Trade Commission is suing TurboTax maker Intuit, saying its ads for “free” tax filing misled consumers. Intuit says it will fight the suit. The consumer protection agency said Tuesday that...
View ArticleWashington State Sues to Block Kroger and Albertsons Proposed Merger
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued to block the proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons, two of the nation’s largest grocery chains. In the suit filed in King County Superior Court,...
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