Tag: FTC

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Bill proposes big fines, jail time for privacy violations

Grant Gross · October 25, 2019 3:00 am

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Net neutrality battleground shifts after FCC court victory

Claude Thompson · October 11, 2019 3:00 am

In this April 16, 2019, file photo, a woman exhales a puff of vapor from a Juul pen in Vancouver, Wash.

FTC orders six e-cigarette makers to turn over all sales and advertising information

Cassidy Morrison · October 3, 2019 6:37 pm

Bill Gates, chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends the "Africa Leadership Meeting - Investing in Health Outcomes" held at a hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019.

Bill Gates: Breaking up big tech companies ‘doesn’t seem like a solution’

Melissa Quinn · September 20, 2019 3:14 pm

Google will pay $170M in settlement over children’s privacy on YouTube

Melissa Quinn · September 4, 2019 2:02 pm

A Russian space agency rescue team help U.S. astronaut Anne McClain out from the capsule shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-11 space capsule about 150 km (80 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan.

NASA investigating first alleged crime committed in space

Hunter Lovell · August 24, 2019 3:52 pm

A man passes a Facebook screen at the Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019.

Facebook launches new tool for users to see data collected from other sites

Melissa Quinn · August 21, 2019 6:32 pm

Vehicles make their way through flooded streets of Panorama City section of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles on Saturday.

State AGs prepare antitrust investigation into tech firms

Melissa Quinn · August 20, 2019 5:50 pm

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joe Simons speaks during a news conference.

FTC chairman says he’s prepared to break up Silicon Valley giants

Melissa Quinn · August 14, 2019 5:58 pm

Magazine - Business

Facebook fine disappoints

Melissa Quinn · August 2, 2019 3:00 am

Equifax, based in Atlanta, has named a new technology chief to oversee data-security improvements.

FTC tells victims of Equifax hack to take credit monitoring instead of $125

Melissa Quinn · August 1, 2019 4:44 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks to media at a campaign event, Saturday, July 27, 2019, in Derry, N.H.

Warren promises bigger role for liberal groups in setting trade policy

Sean Higgins · July 29, 2019 5:57 pm