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Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The FTC has suggested the industry regulate itself by disclosing to consumers any intention to collect information about them for the purpose of targeting ads, and obtaining their consent to do so, among other rules. [10 Apr 2008]
Do proposed guidelines for online ads cut the mustard?
News In proposed privacy principles unveiled in December, the FTC said websites should provide a "clear, consumer-friendly and prominent statement" that data is being collected for targeted ads. Consumers also should be given the ability to choose... [25 Feb 2008]
Adware company hit with $3m fine
News But what many may not realise, in their haste to watch the clip, is that by doing so they are downloading adware onto their machines - which not only conveys information about their web sessions back to Zango but will also serve pop-up ads that... [07 Nov 2006]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News The Can-Spam Act requires that spam email messages be labelled as ads, include the sender's postal address, provide an opt-out method, label sexually explicit material as such, and not show graphic sexual images in the initially viewable area of... [15 Sep 2006]
Spyware kingpin ordered to cough up $4m
News Wallace and Smartbot.net were charged with deceptively dropping spyware onto the PCs of unwitting people, changing their settings and barraging them with pop-up ads. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has wrapped up its first major spyware... [05 May 2006]
Botnets and spyware still on the rise
But unlike zombie programs, they are mainly designed to report users' browsing habits and deliver pop-up ads. The US Federal Trade Commission and its counterparts abroad recently announced that they'd urge Internet Service Providers to crack down... [12 Jul 2005]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News But unlike zombie programs, they are mainly designed to report users' browsing habits and deliver pop-up ads. The US Federal Trade Commission and its counterparts abroad recently announced that they'd urge internet service providers to crack down... [12 Jul 2005]
ID theft: The real danger is offline
News Half of those crimes stemmed from spyware, software that surreptitiously tracks users online or causes ads to pop up when the consumer is online. The survey, which follows an earlier study carried out by the Federal Trade Commission in 2003... [27 Jan 2005]
AOL buys advertising firm for $435m
News The company buys ad inventory from websites, search engines and email publishers and uses its proprietary AdLearn technology to sort and place ads based on its advertisers' goals. One element of the deal that's both attractive for AOL and... [25 Jun 2004]
Average PC harbouring 28 bits of spyware
News The most common type, it said, is adware: software that displays ads and also sends data back to a third party. The Federal Trade Commission, which has taken action on spam and other internet-related privacy issues, plans a high-profile hearing on... [16 Apr 2004]
Disney-porn hook-up sends typosquatter to jail
News Users trying to access the site would be treated to a barrage of pop-up ads and when the web surfer clicked on the ad's close button or tried to go back using their browser, special code would launch even more advertising. [01 Mar 2004]
Pop-up firm fights legal block
News The order barred the two from sending pop-up ads to PC users through a security hole in Windows Messenger service. D Squared licenses software that uses this method to deliver pop-up ads to third parties, according to the FTC. [11 Dec 2003]
Domain name deception man arrested
News Last year, a federal court ordered Zuccarini to stop deluging internet users with porn and gambling pop-up ads when they mistyped a web address. And in 2001, the Federal Trade Commission sued Zuccarini on similar charges. [04 Sep 2003]
Legal trip ropes may curb banner year for advertising
Comment Last year, while UK advertisers were still spending less than £50m on banner ads, this e-tailer was just one of many US sites cashing in on internet advertising. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has regulated on banner advertisements... [19 Oct 2000]
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