Tag: FTC

Infomercial Mogul Trudeau Found in Contempt of Court
If the Federal Trade Commission is to be believed, Kevin Trudeau is a snake oil salesman the likes of which have not been seen since the days of the wild west in America. A true mi...
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FTC’s Stricter Rules on Collecting Kid’s Data Are Now in Effect
Today, the Federal Trade Commission's updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act rules officially go into effect. The modifications,...
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FTC Updates Search Engine Ad Disclosure Guidelines
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has updated is guidance to the search engine industry regarding the need to distinguish between advertisements and search results. Search indu...
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Google Said To Be Under FTC Review For Waze
Google acquired Israel-based navigation company Waze earlier th...
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Google Could Be In For Another FTC Antitrust Probe
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering opening up a new antitrust probe into Google's businesses practices once again, according to reports. This one would not be into Go...
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Google Announces Opt-Out Tool To Keep Content Out Of Its Specialized Search Engines
Google has launched a new way for sites to opt out of having their content show up in Google Shopping, Advisor, Flights, Hotels, and Google+ Local search. Matt Cutts announced...
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Kids Had A Hard Time Buying M-Rated Video Games In 2012 [Study]
In 2011, the Supreme Court smacked down a proposed California law...
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FTC Gets Specific on Guidelines for Third-Party Twitter Ads
The Federal Trade Commission has just released some revisions of its decade-old online advertising guidelines, alliterative...
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Path Settles With FTC Over Privacy Issues
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today that Path has agreed to settle FTC charges that it deceived users by collecting personal info from mobile device address books wit...
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FTC Strengthens Online Privacy Rules For Children
As has been documented many times before, us adults on the Internet really have no privacy. Advertisers...
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Priceline Wins FTC Approval For Kayak Acquisition [Report]
Priceline announced in November that it had signed an agreement to acquire Kayak in a deal valued at $1.8 billion ($40 per share of Kayak). Priceline would pay about $500 million i...
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Was The FTC Too Easy On Google? Too Hard?
On Thursday, the FTC finally made an announcement regarding its investigation of Google for alleged anticompetitive conduct. The investigation is now closed. The Commission will no...
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Consumer Watchdog Inevitably Weighs In On The Google FTC Decision
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has closed its investigati...
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FairSearch: FTC’s Google Decision ‘Disappointing And Premature’
Now that the Federal Trade Commission has formally announced the conclusion of...
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FTC May Announce Google Decision This Week
Here we are into 2013, and still no public decision on the Google antitrust investigation from the FTC. That may change soon, however (I know, we keep hearing that). All Things...
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