FTC News

Ten GOP Senators signed a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, from Senator Jim DeMint, expressing views on the FTC's apparent eagerness to enforce antitrust regulation on tech co...

Report: FTC Gives Google A Few Days To Offer A Proposal

Last month, reports came out indicating that the FTC would reveal its for...

FTC Staff Recommending Google Lawsuit [RUMOR]

According to a Bloomberg report, staff members of the U.S. Federal...

Congressman To FTC: To Even Discuss Antitrust With Regards To Google “Defies All Logic”

Last week, reports came out indicating that four out of five FTC comm...

SEMPO Urges FTC To Review Search Labeling Transparency

The SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Board of Directors has sent a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz regarding searc...

FTC’s Google Antitrust Decision May Come In November [Report]

Although a decision on whether or not to move forward with an antitrust suit against Google was expected about a month ago, it looks like the decision has been made, and that the F...

Facebook Takes Issue With Part Of Child Privacy Law

Websites that are collecting information from children under the age of thirteen are required to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Facebook is c...

Facebook’s Retail Data Mining Already Being Questioned by Privacy Groups

That was fast. Just a few days after multiple outlets reported on a new way Facebook is providing better analytics on ad campaigns to marketers, two electronic privacy groups have...

Joshua Wright FTC Nomination Probably Makes Google Happy

This week, President Obama nominated Joshua Wright, a George Mason University School of Law professor, to serve on the Federal Trade Commission, replacing Commissioner J. Thomas Ro...

Consumer Watchdog Challenges Google’s FTC Settlement Over “Safari-gate”

Consumer Watchdog announced today that it has won the right to oppose the recently announced...

FTC Nears End Of Google Antitrust Probe [Report]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may reach a decision on how to proceed with an antitrust probe into Google, by mid September, according to...

Former FTC Chairman Doesn’t Think An FTC Antitrust Suit Against Google Would Work

There has been talk about a possible antitrust investigation into Google by the FTC for over a year. Earlier this year, the...

Facebook/Instagram Deal Gets the FTC’s Blessing

Everything looks a-ok with Facebook's acqusition of photo-sharing app Instagram, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has just ended...

Facebook Dodges FTC Fines Over Privacy After Google Gets Nailed

A day after handing Google the largest fine it has ever handed to...

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