The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into whether Facebook’s own research documents show the social network violated a 2019 settlement over privacy concerns, for which the company paid a $5 billion fine. FTC officials have begun to look into recently disclosed internal research that outline how much Facebook knew about its platforms’ harms, according …
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Facebook agreed to pay billions of dollars extra on top of an initial fine sought by the Federal Trade Commission in 2019 to protect CEO Mark Zuckerberg from personal liability related to a massive data leak probe, shareholders allege in a pair of lawsuits made public on Tuesday. In lawsuits filed last month in Delaware’s Chancery Court, two groups of …
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President Joe Biden said Monday that he plans to nominate online privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission in a move that is expected to lead to greater regulatory scrutiny for Big Tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google. Bedoya, the founder of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology, has been a leading critic …
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked all major social media and video streaming platforms to provide information on how they deal with users’ personal data. The order was sent Monday to Facebook, WhatsApp, Snap, Twitter, Amazon, YouTube, TikTok owner ByteDance, Twitch, Reddit and Discord. The FTC wants to know how the internet giants collect, use and track personal and demographic …
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The Federal Trade Commission is preparing a possible antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that could be filed as soon as the end of the year, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The agency is examining Facebook’s dominant position in social media, sources told the newspaper. The case, part of a larger US antitrust investigation into tech companies, focuses on whether Facebook …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly testified at a Federal Trade Commission antitrust hearing this week. His virtual testimony went for two days, according to a Politico report Thursday. “We are committed to cooperating with the US Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry and answering the questions the Agency may have,” a Facebook company spokesperson told CNET in an emailed statement. The news …
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Qualcomm has won its appeal against the US Federal Trade Commission, with the court finding that Qualcomm’s licensing policies are not anticompetitive. In a judgment published Tuesday, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated the previous judgment, reversing the district court’s permanent worldwide injunction against Qualcomm’s business practices, which required it to renegotiate fees with rivals. According to …
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Twitter on Monday disclosed it’s under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for using personal information provided by users for security reasons to target them with advertising. The probe could lead to a loss of as much as $250 million, the company said in a regulatory filing Monday. Twitter said it received a draft complaint from the FTC alleging the …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The ongoing spread of the coronavirus continues to create new crops of hackers, targeting people who are working from home, still awaiting stimulus or benefit checks, or just trying to stay healthy at home or on a socially distanced vacation. Scammers are even pretending …
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The US Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department are probing allegations that TikTok has failed to meet its obligation to protect children’s privacy under a 2019 agreement, Reuters reported Tuesday. Two sources told the news agency they participated in separate conference calls with the agencies regarding the accusations. TikTok is a wildly popular social media app where people, mostly teens and …
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