Topic: Federal Trade Commission
There's no love lost between Microsoft and Google. Fierce competitors, the two often snipe at each other in public. In the latest twist to the ongoing feud, Microsoft's vp and…
The fiscal cliff wasn't the only piece of business that went down to the wire in the Senate. On New Year's Day, the upper chamber confirmed Joshua Wright (R) to…
Nutrition watchdogs should be pleased. Food companies are spending less money marketing to children and youth, a new Federal Trade Commission report found. Compared to 2006, food marketing targeting 2-…
Flanked by the leading privacy hawks in Congress, Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz Wednesday unveiled tighter rules to strengthen kids online and mobile privacy. The new rules amend the Children’s…
Last week's Congressional Bipartisan Privacy Caucus briefing on data brokers and privacy must have left quite an impression on Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz, who opened a probe today…
David Vladeck, the hard-charging director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, is officially leaving on Dec. 31 to return to his faculty position at Georgetown University Law…
Hoping to pressure the Federal Trade Commission to step up its enforcement of kids' privacy laws, the Center for Digital Democracy filed a complaint against Nickelodeon and PlayFirst's SpongeBob Diner…
Let's hope the Federal Trade Commission has a sense of humor. On the eve of the agency's release of updates to the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act, the Interactive Advertising…
Consumers have taken to logging onto their websites using their Facebook or Twitter accounts in droves. But in Washington, D.C., the increasingly popular practice, which allows a website or mobile…
The permission box that pops up every time users first install an app that connects with their Facebook accounts can be annoying. Why does this music app need the ability…
