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News This filing is to help the FTC recognise they must ensure children and adolescents' privacy is protected in the age of Facebook and MySpace. According to a copy of the letter seen by silicon.com sister site CNET News.com "We ask that the FTC...
[10 Apr 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 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. Microsoft confirmed it has been notified by the FTC that the agency plans to...
[15 Jun 2007]
News ID fraud continues to top the complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Such complaints, which include credit card fraud, bank fraud, as well as phone and utilities fraud, accounted for 36 per cent of the total 674,354 complaints...
[10 Apr 2007]
News Identity fraud continues to top the complaints reported to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Such complaints, which include credit card fraud, bank fraud, as well as phone and utilities fraud, accounted for 36 per cent of the total 674,354...
[05 Apr 2007]
News The offices of Qualcomm Korea were raided in April of last year, when the FTC investigated business dealings between the company and three others - LG Electronics, Pantech Curitel and Samsung. Qualcomm is to be investigated over antitrust...
[02 Jan 2007]
News However, it is hoping the FTC can determine who is behind the site and where they are located, a representative for StopBadware said. The representative said: "The FTC has had success in working with other governments to help crack down on...
[07 Dec 2006]
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]
News These versions would include links to media player and instant-messaging software from competitors, as required by a 2005 antitrust ruling by Korea's Fair Trade Commission (FTC). Linda Norman, an associate general counsel for Microsoft, said: "For...
[16 Oct 2006]
News Consumers filed more than 255,000 identity theft reports to the FTC in 2005, accounting for more than a third of all complaints the agency received. A report into which US financial institutions best protect their customers against identity theft...
[26 Sep 2006]
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]
whitepaper According to a FTC report published in January 2006, the Commission received 255,565 identity theft complaints in 2005. Data privacy is fast emerging as the biggest challenge for compliance and security officers.
[14 Sep 2006]
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. Deborah Platt Majoras, the FTC's Republican chairman, said...
[22 Aug 2006]
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]
News Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Yahoo! Reacting to complaints filed by dissatisfied users, the FTC said yesterday that it will look into the case and determine whether Yahoo! Chen Rong-long, representative of the FTC, said...
[31 Jul 2006]
News The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made a pitch for open access to Whois, saying the databases are a key weapon in its fight against spyware and other internet fraud. The official statement comes after an address by FTC commissioner John...
[28 Jun 2006]
News The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday said approximately 110 individuals might be at risk of identity fraud after two FTC laptops were stolen from a locked vehicle. One of the computers contained data collected in FTC investigations...
[23 Jun 2006]
News Identity theft continues to plague consumers, topping the list of fraud complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last year. Consumers filed more than 255,000 ID theft reports to the FTC in 2005, accounting for more than one-third...
[02 Jun 2006]
whitepaper As evidenced by the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) record-setting fine against ChoicePoint, the federal government is getting serious about holding businesses responsible for the protection of consumer information.
[26 May 2006]
whitepaper With the proliferation of broadband connections and the home network it should come as no surprise that there was a twofold increase in identity theft complaints reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) between 2002 and 2004.
[25 May 2006]
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