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Revealed: World's largest security breach
News According to the SEC filing, a multi-state investigation is currently underway that encompasses 30 states, and the Federal Trade Commission is also reviewing whether TJX violated US laws pertaining to consumer protection. [30 Mar 2007]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News He has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission and companies including America Online and Concentric Network. In the suit, filed last week in US District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, MySpace accuses Wallace of... [28 Mar 2007]
ID fraud soaring across the pond
News This compares to Federal Trade Commission figures from 2003 which put the number of ID fraud victims at 9.9 million. Fraud related to identity theft has risen by more than 50 per cent across the pond since 2003, according to analyst Gartner. [07 Mar 2007]
Microsoft lucks out in latest patent case
News Microsoft has also countersued, and there have been additional actions in other legal venues, including an International Trade Commission case filed in recent weeks. A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5bn in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3... [05 Mar 2007]
Shock: Microsoft hit with $1.5bn patent ruling
News Microsoft has also countersued in the case, and there have been additional actions in other legal venues, including an International Trade Commission case filed this week. We will continue to defend our customers against unfounded claims and are... [23 Feb 2007]
Sony BMG faces ongoing rootkit fallout
News In addition, McGrath said an investigation launched earlier this year by the Federal Trade Commission looms. Sony BMG is making amends in California and Texas for secretly loading antipiracy software onto customers' computers. [21 Dec 2006]
AT&T-BellSouth merger back to square one?
News He had declined to participate because immediately prior to joining the Federal Communications Commission, he spent seven years as an executive with the trade association Comptel, which lobbies for competitors of the Bell telephone companies. [19 Dec 2006]
AT&T-BellSouth merger set for deciding vote
News The head lawyer for the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has paved the way for commissioner Robert McDowell to break the deadlock on the mega-merger between AT&T and BellSouth, despite his recent affiliation with an organisation strongly... [11 Dec 2006]
Anti-spyware groups target bogus music search site
News The CDT and StopBadware said they will file a joint complaint against the website with the US Federal Trade Commission today. Two anti-spyware watchdogs are urging federal regulators in the US to take action against a music search website they say... [07 Dec 2006]
Adware company hit with $3m fine
News Adware company Zango has been fined $3m by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the methods it has employed to download adware onto users' computers. The adware distributor agreed to settle with the FTC after the watchdog claimed Zango "used... [07 Nov 2006]
ID theft: Which banks do best?
News Last year, identity theft for the third straight year topped the list of fraud complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission. That's mostly because the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council last October recommended that banks... [26 Sep 2006]
Web smut labelling plan still on cards
News Under the proposal, all commercial website operators would have to place "identifiable marks or notices", to be determined by the Federal Trade Commission, in the code of each page that contains "sexually explicit material" as defined by existing... [19 Sep 2006]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal internet spam operations, including two that hijacked computers to send sexually explicit spam. In the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Cleverlink Trading and its... [15 Sep 2006]
FTC chief slams net neutrality
News The head of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday expressed sharp scepticism toward proposed laws that would levy extensive net neutrality regulations on broadband providers. Because the FTC shares enforcement authority with the Federal... [22 Aug 2006]
Heads roll at AOL after search data blunder
News Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum, said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should investigate whether AOL partners and others have received sensitive user data from AOL over the years. [22 Aug 2006]
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