Facebook has launched an expanded privacy education campaign for new users, with the focus on default settings, user access to their own data and deciding who they share their information with. Facebook, in an announcement on the site ...
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Three federal agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogus business opportunities, with some of the defendants offering to help customers set up ...
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Google and the European Commission could hammer out a search antitrust settlement within months, with both sides now working on the details of an agreement, EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said Wednesday. Almunia, during a ...
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Computerworld-U.S.officials today struck at six long-running scams,freezing assets of 14 companies charged with bilking consumers by posing as tech support from Microsoft,Symantec and others. In a press conference,the Federal Trade ...
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Delta Air Lines quickly published a privacy policy for its mobile application on Friday after the company was sued by California's attorney general, but a privacy researcher has already found a fault with it and the app. Ashkan Soltani, ...
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Google will pay a historic fine to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it bypassed privacy settings and used cookies to track Apple Safari users who visited Google's DoubleClick ad network. The $22.5 million civil penalty is the ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said it had updated rules requiring online services to obtain consent from parents if they are aimed at children under 13 or know that they are collecting personal information from young children. But FTC ...
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The company told Instagram fans it has no intention of selling photos after its new terms and conditions sparked outrage among users yesterday. The photo-sharing service saw many of its users threaten to delete their accounts after it ...
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The US food manufacturers have reduced advertising on television which promotes less-healthy foods for children, with the aim to reduce obesity. When compared to 2006, food marketing spending has reduced 20% in 2009, according to Federal ...
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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-market competition for solutions to privacy concerns, privacy experts told the U.S. Federal ...
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Many mobile apps aimed at children collect and share personal data without notifying parents, potentially violating U.S. law, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Monday. The FTC has launched an investigation of several ...
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Two digital rights group urged Facebook on Tuesday to halt changes to its governance and data use policies, warning the modifications could increase privacy risks. Facebook said last Wednesday it would no longer allow users to vote on ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an April decision by its administrative law judge in a patent dispute between Microsoft and Motorola Mobility that has attracted a lot of attention including from the U.S. ...
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Web companies using facial recognition technology should avoid identifying anonymous images of consumers to someone who could not otherwise identify them, unless the companies have the consumers' consent, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved social network Facebook's proposed acquisition of mobile photo-sharing service Instagram. The approval comes a week after the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) cleared the deal, giving ...
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