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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) works for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices and to provide information to help spot, stop, and avoid them. The FTC is an independent agency of the U.S. government and its main mission is to eliminate and prevent anti-competitive business practices. This topic tracks the latest news on the FTC, including its latest regulations.

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FCC, FTC seek answers from Apple, Google on phone location datamore

the location of their users and store detailed histories of their movements. The Federal Communications Commission and...

PrivacyStar Announces SMS ID And Directory Assistance For Androidmore

requests. PrivacyStar users have blocked over 120 million numbers and filed over 150,000 complaints directly to the...

LabCorp Extends Tender Offer For All Outstanding Shares Of Orchid Cell...more

common stock of Orchid Cellmark Inc. (NASDAQ: ORCH). On May 17, 2011, LabCorp received a request from the Federal Trade...

9 Tips for Protecting Your Online Identitymore

Rapport for its online banking customers. 9. If your information has been stolen, file a complaint with the Federal...

Female Programmers in Historymore

A weekly technology podcast hosted by Bettina Edelstein, J.D. Biersdorfer and Pedro Rafael Rosado. Kathy Kleiman of the...

General Mills to Buy Controlling Share of Yoplaitmore

was valued at about 400 million euros. The deal has received antitrust approval in the United States, the Federal Trade...

Ronald McDonald to Face Fire at Annual Meetingmore

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McDonald's Pressed To Fire Ronaldmore

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Big Oil tax bill stalls but the politics aren't slowing downmore

to "tell Republicans to stop subsidizing Big Oil." Adding to the pressure Tuesday, Senate Democrats asked the...

Keys to the cloud castlemore

The company revised its website to reflect reality, and apologised, but it faces a complaint filed with the Federal...

Senate slates Apple, Google mobile privacy round-twomore

CTO of Facebook; and Alan Davidson, Google's director of public policy, are to appear. Officials from the Federal Trade...

Readers React: 'Next, the Lucky Charms Leprechauns"more

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UPDATE 4-General Mills to buy controlling stake in Yoplaitmore

company was valued at about 400 million euros. The deal was also given U.S. antitrust approval, the Federal Trade...

FCC steps into privacy debate over location-based datamore

from Facebook. Lawmakers are considering whether there should be specific laws governing location data.

McDonald's Under Pressure to Fire Ronaldmore

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Big Tech Fights Big Government Over Proposed California Privacy Billmore

thinks, is "contextual" privacy where users decide what can be shared on a case-by-case basis and cites the...

Energy Measures Highlight Impassemore

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Dueling Bills Highlight Impasse Over Energymore

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Senate Refuses to End Tax Breaks for Big Oilmore

Committee chairman, have indicated a willingness to consider the idea. Also on Tuesday, Senate Democrats wrote to the...

Doctors' Orders to McDonald's: Stop Marketing Junk Food to Kidsmore

cities across the country. The announcement of the new initiative (see LetterToMcDonalds.org) comes just weeks after...

FCC, FTC to hold mobile location privacy forummore

with location information from mobile devices enters yet another round next month. The Federal Communications...

FTC Complaint Says Dropbox Misled Users About File Privacymore

Last week, a complaint was filed with the Federal Trade Commission that Dropbox misled its customers about its file...

Researcher: Dropbox misled users over data securitymore

Dropbox, Storage, Cloud, Federal Trade Commission, US, Deceptive, Researcher, Security, Data, Complaint NEWS A...

Bits: U.S. Agencies Plan a Public Forum on Location Servicesmore

to help consumers understand and navigate the services and their privacy implications, the Federal Communications...

FCC steps into privacy debate over location-based data, announcing for...more

from Facebook. Lawmakers are considering whether there should be specific laws governing location data.

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