2 months
The Washington Post reports that Facebook and the FTC are having discussions about a multi-billion dollar fine due to Facebook’s privacy issues over the past year. While the exact amount isn’t clear yet, as Facebook c...
11 months
A coalition of progressive groups is planning to launch an advertising campaign to get the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to split Facebook into several companies and break up its monopoly. The group want the FTC to break off Inst...
12 months
Early last month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent out warnings to the three major console manufacturers—Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo—that their warranty policies violated the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. As such, the F...
12 months
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found last month that stickers stating “warranty void if removed” were illegal. As such, the FTC has sent out notices to several companies that they have 30 days to remove these stick...
by Greg Jordan
2 years
Software giant Microsoft has hired Obama nominee, former Federal Trade Commission Julie Brill as corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of its Privacy and Regulatory Affairs Group under Brad Smith, the firm’s pr...
by Pradeep
3 years
In order to gain a better understanding of security in the mobile ecosystem, the Federal Trade Commission yesterday issued orders to eight mobile device manufacturers including Microsoft asking them to provide information about ho...
6 years
According to Bloomberg the FTC may not bring Google to trial for the most serious allegations of abuse of their dominant search position. The issue is apparently that the FTC is unsure that they have enough evidence to successfull...
6 years
The US Consumer Watchdog has filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission demanding Google be largely dismantled, to prevent the company from abusing its monopoly position. Noting ”Google hardly blinked when it paid ha...
7 years
The New York Times reports that the Federal Trade Commission is preparing a recommendation that the government sue Google for abusing its position as the dominant search engine. The accusation is that Google manipulates search res...