Tag: FTC

FTC Opposes Bans Over Standards Essential Patents
Last week Tim Cook spent time on stage during the opening session of AllThingsD's D10 Conference talking to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher about a variety of topics. Among the issu...
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Do Social Media Sites View Privacy As A Burden?
When interviewing Robert Ellis Smith, privacy expert extraordinaire, WebProNews' Abby Johnson asked him how the recent FTC/Myspace ruli...
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Hiring of Antitrust Litigator Doesn’t Signal Google Antitrust Suit, FTC Says
In spite of the red sky Google might be seeing these mornings, the company doesn't necessarily need to batten down the hatches of its ships just yet, according to Federal Trade Com...
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POM Juice Lawsuit: Company’s Claims are Deceptive
POM juice lawsuit, which is aimed at beverage manufacturer POM Wonderful LLC, states that the...
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FTC Picks Internet Privacy Expert for Senior Adviser
The Federal Trade Commission has drafted Paul Ohm, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and a well-regarded expert on internet privacy, as a senior advisor on mobil...
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Twitter Enables Firefox’s “Do Not Track” Option
The New York Times is reporting that Twitter has begun acknowledging the "Do...
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Sketchers Settlement: Company to Pay FTC $40 Million Over Ads
Sketchers settlement is going to cost the company an impressive $40 million dollars. I s...
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Google Report Dismisses Competitors’ Complaints of Search Bias
Google continues its offensive against the antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission with another internally-commissioned report released today. The report, which fol...
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Search Engines Owed Same Free Speech Protections As CNN, Claims Google Report
In a new report commissioned by Google that examines the scope of free speech that should be permitted to search engines, UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, who authored the report,...
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Myspace Settles with FTC Over User Privacy
Myspace, the dominant social network before Facebook took over, has just...
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FTC Hires Beth Wilkinson in Google Investigation
For the first time in five years of litigation, the Federal Trade Commission has...
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Facebook’s Instagram Days of Antitrust Scrutiny Ahead
So now that we have learned that Facebook's $1 billion purchase of Instagram wasn't so m...
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Does Fining Google Really Achieve Anything?
Over the weekend, the Federal Communications Commission relea...
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The Internet Or Your Privacy: Which Do You Value More?
There's an old cartoon that came out back in an issue of The New Yorker in 1993, back when the Internet was still damp with amniotic fluid and long before it'd taken its f...
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What Will the FTC’s Privacy Framework Do?
When the Federal Trade Commission released its final report on pr...
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