The Federal Trade Commission is pursuing complaints against 29 affiliate marketers accused of sending "hundreds of millions of unwanted spam text messages" to consumers. The texts enticed recipients with promises of "free" gift cards from ...
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The number of major mattress makers is about to shrink again. Four years after Serta and Simmons combined under joint ownership, Tempur-Pedic has now gotten approval from the Federal Trade Commission to acquire competitor Sealy. The ...
Recently, consumers nationwide have received a phone call from federal employees, informing them that they're among the first Americans selected to receive health-insurance cards as part of the Affordable Care Act. Before they mail out ...
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New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said. Sens. John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, and ...
Internet Explorer's poor reputation for security is undeserved, with Mozilla Firefox actually the most vulnerable internet browser in common usage. That's according to research by network security solutions provider Sourcefire, which ...
Smartphone manufacturer HTC has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the firm failed to take "reasonable steps" to patch security vulnerabilities in its products, thus putting information belonging to millions of ...
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The US Federal Trade Commission said HTC agreed "to develop and release software patches to fix vulnerabilities found in millions of HTC devices." No financial penalty against the company was announced. The FTC said it investigated ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with HTC America over security holes in the company's smartphone and tablet software that left millions of users' personal information at risk. Under the terms of the agreement, ...
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US public interest groups - Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumer Federation of America, National Consumers League and Shape Up America! - have proposed Treasury Department to finalize the rules for standardizing the alcoholic ...
French EU privacy regulator CNIL is to take action against Google this summer, according to a statement the body has released on its website. CNIL's statement explains how after several months of investigation, European data protection ...
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Former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has written a book about the chip wars between Intel and AMD. 'Slingshot: AMD's Fight to Free An Industry From The Ruthless Grip of Intel' - is the title of a book written by former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz to be ...
The European Commission has received a proposal from Google to settle an antitrust investigation into the compny's search engine practices, a Commission spokesman said on Friday. At the same time, an industry organization said it has filed ...
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The maker of the Path social networking app will pay a $800,000 civil penalty to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected personal information from children without parental consent, the agency said Friday. ...
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Mobile app developers should provide real-time disclosures to users on the personal information they collect and get permission to collect sensitive information, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has recommended. Mobile app developers ...
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The operator of the Path social networking app has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. The ...
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