Car manufacturers—and all businesses—should take note that the FTC will take action to protect consumers against the illegal collection, use, and disclosure of their personal data.
The FTC is sending 117,044 PayPal payments to consumers who had certain types of Ring devices, such as indoor cameras, during periods when the FTC alleges unauthorized users may have had access to customer videos. Consumers should redeem their PayPal payment within 30 days....
Under the proposed order, filed by the Department of Justice upon notification and referral from the FTC, Cerebral will also be required to pay more than $7 million over charges that it disclosed consumers’ sensitive personal health information and other sensitive data to third parties for advertising purposes and failed to...
According to the complaint, the company contradicted its privacy promises. From 2020-2022, the company allegedly disclosed users’ personal information, including their health information, to numerous third-party advertising platforms via tracking technologies, known as pixels and application programming interfaces (APIs),...
In an administrative complaint, FTC staff alleges that H&R Block’s online tax filing products lead consumers into higher-cost products made for more complicated tax filings, despite many consumers not needing the additional tax forms and schedules offered by those products. In addition, H&R Block fails to clearly explain which...
All’aggregatore di dati InMarket Media sarà vietato vendere o concedere in licenza dati di localizzazione precisi per risolvere le accuse della Federal Trade Commission secondo cui l’azienda non avrebbe informato completamente i consumatori e non avrebbe ottenuto il loro consenso prima di raccogliere e utilizzare i loro...
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. The FTC and its state partners say Amazon’s actions allow...
So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors....
To be clear, this does not tackle user review, it’s about editorial reviews where companies would write good reviews for their products under the guise of a review site....
La Federal Trade Commission sta intraprendendo un'azione legale contro Amazon.com, Inc. per il suo sforzo pluriennale di iscrivere i consumatori al programma Prime senza il loro consenso e rendendo consapevolmente difficile per i consumatori annullare l'abbonamento a Prime....