Social networking app Path settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission today, paying $800,000 for allegedly violating kids' privacy on its site. The FTC also released a new privacy report, with recommendations for protecting consumers ...
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The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (“Textile Act”), Wool Products Labeling Act (“Wool Act”), and the Fur Products Labeling Act (“Fur Act”) (collectively, the “Acts”) provide that a ...
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A group of UK consumers is pursuing damages against Google in line with last year's accusations that the company was storing cookies in Apple's Safari web browser, regardless of users' privacy settings. Though Google was last year ...
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Currently, federally mandated window stickers on used cars specify warranty terms and inform consumers of their legal rights. Now those stickers are about to change, and consumer advocates say the new ones take a step backward. The ...
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MOM's Organic Market has banned products targeting children through the use of licensed cartoon characters. The move includes a wide range of products, from frozen soybeans to juice boxes. All products targeting children through the use ...
Amid further signs that the EU's two-year investigation into Google is coming to a head, EC competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the internet giant will be forced to change the way it presents its search results if it wants to ...
Motorola Mobility has withdrawn its claims with regard to its standard-essential patents in its complaint against Microsoft's Xbox before the U.S. International Trade Commission. The move comes after Microsoft told the ITC in a filing ...
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It's becoming more common to buy major appliances online—roughly 10 percent of refrigerator sales now happen there, versus at a brick and mortar store, up from a blip 10 years ago. But for all the convenience of online appliance ...
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The Federal Trade Commission announced an Enforcement Policy Statement regarding the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act,the Wool Products Labeling Act,and the Fur Products Labeling Act concerning treatment of certain retailers that ...
Amazon,Inc.;Leon Max,Inc.;Macy's,Inc.;and Sears,Roebuck and Co.and its Kmart subsidiaries,Kmart Corporation and Kmart,have agreed to pay penalties totaling$1.26 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the ...
IDG News Service - Microsoft told the U.S. International Trade Commission that it expects Motorola Mobility to withdraw claims relating to two patents it says are essential to the H.264 standard in its complaint against the Xbox, in view of ...
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IDG News Service - The patent injunction portion of Google's antitrust settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission this week won't mean an end to patent disputes between Google and mobile device makers, but it does take away one major ...
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Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will host a press conference Thursday afternoon to discussion its investigation of Google for antitrust violations. The FTC press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz ...
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US regulators have closed a lengthy antitrust probe into Google, saying there is not enough evidence to show the internet giant manipulated its search results to harm its competitors. The Federal Trade Commission said it lacked a legal ...
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