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whitepaper The Federal Trade Commission as recently as December 2006 published a "State of spam" report, citing research indicating spam had leveled off or even dropped during the previous year. Not that long ago some officials were declaring the war against...
[17 May 2008]
whitepaper The Federal Trade Commission received more than 685,000 complaints of fraud and identity theft in 2005, totaling more than $680 million in stolen assets. Fraud and identity theft are on the rise. The vast majority of these cases stemmed from data...
[13 May 2008]
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]
News The deal, which would be the world's top mobile-phone maker's largest-ever takeover, won approval from the US Federal Trade Commission in December. The European Commission has said it has opened an in-depth investigation into plans by Nokia to buy...
[31 Mar 2008]
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]
News The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has proposed new privacy guidelines related to online advertising that offer weaker consumer notice and choice requirements than the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants.
[25 Feb 2008]
News A year after the initial bid was made the US Federal Trade Commission gave its approval to the deal in January 2001. Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo!
[04 Feb 2008]
News Regulators with the US Federal Trade Commission are also reviewing the deal, although their timetable is less clear. The European Commission - the EU's antitrust watchdog - expects to make a final decision by 2 April 2008.
[14 Nov 2007]
News They're also trying desperately to push the acquisition of DoubleClick through the Federal Trade Commission. The APEC framework "promotes a flexible approach to information privacy protection" and is a "practical policy approach to enable...
[14 Sep 2007]
News US President Bush's administration said on Monday that it would not veto a decision handed down in June by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that would prohibit the import of mobile phones using the chips that infringe on Broadcom patents.
[07 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This white paper reviews the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's Information Security Handbook, identifying key sections of the handbook that focus on the uses of encryption to protect customer privacy in compliance with the...
[06 Aug 2007]
News The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly wants to take a look at a few online advertising acquisitions, not just Google's planned deal to acquire DoubleClick. The regulatory agency also plans to look into Microsoft's $6bn deal to buy...
[15 Jun 2007]
News ID fraud continues to top the complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). About 40,000 US Chicago Public Schools (CPS) employees are at risk of identity fraud after two laptops containing their personal information were stolen late...
[10 Apr 2007]
News Identity fraud continues to top the complaints reported to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). A possible computer security breach at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) may have put 46,000 campus and medical centre faculty...
[05 Apr 2007]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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