federal trade commission act
How Well Do You Really Know Your Online Customers?
White Paper Federal Trade Commission in 2001. Are you in compliance with HIPAA, COPPA and the Patriot Act? Identity theft has accounted for 42% of consumer complaints (over 86,000 cases) at the U.S. Over $400 billion annually is LOST due to fraud and abuse. [03 Jul 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and... [10 Apr 2008]
Google to get the DoubleClick go-ahead?
News Google was given the go-ahead by the US Federal Trade Commission in December but has been waiting for the EU to act. European regulators are planning to grant approval for Google's proposed $3.1bn takeover of DoubleClick, possibly on 11 March... [06 Mar 2008]
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]
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]
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]
Encryption & the FFIEC's IT Security Handbook: Facilitating GLBA Compliance
White Paper The Federal Trade Commission has broad authority to enforce the rules set out under Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), and the Handbook. When developing and implementing their information security programs, financial institutions use guidelines set out... [26 May 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News Dopa would also require the Federal Trade Commission to set up a website about the "potential dangers posed by the use of the internet by children" and order the FCC to create a committee and publish a list of websites "that have been known to... [11 May 2006]
UK consumers left in the dark on data breaches
News Plans for a similar law to cover the whole US - the Data Accountability and Trust Act - are being presented to the Federal Trade Commission for approval. For example a Californian law - the Security Breach Information Act (SBIA) - requires any... [02 May 2006]
Leader: Had a security breach? 'Fess up
Leader A similar law for the whole country, the Data Accountability and Trust Act, is in the process of being drawn up and presented to the Federal Trade Commission for approval. A Californian law, the Security Breach Information Act, requires any company... [26 Apr 2006]
$2.4m spam ring shut down
News In a deal with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the state of California, the people behind a prolific spam operation have agreed to pay $475,000 and refrain from illegal activity. The messages included links to websites operated by the... [10 Apr 2006]
US to force firms to 'fess up on data loss
News According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ID theft cost American consumers $5bn and businesses $48bn last year. The Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA) was approved by the US House Energy and Commerce Committee last week and could soon... [03 Apr 2006]
Review of Federal Trade Commission Implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act for Fiscal Year 2004
White Paper The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) completed this Independent Evaluation Report along with the IG's portion of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandated Executive Summary for FY 2004. [23 Aug 2005]
Senate pledges to get serious about spyware
News Boxer acknowledged that the Federal Trade Commission already has been suing alleged spyware distributors, but said: "I think we have to do more than that. It's not clear, though, how much a new federal law can accomplish. [12 May 2005]
Safeguarding Financial Privacy With Enterprise Single Sign-On: One Step in Assuring That Service Providers Protect Your Customers' Personal Financial Data
White Paper Their governing bodies, which can range from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must periodically audit and enforce compliance through examinations that can result in fines for non-compliance. [09 May 2005]
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