When Google announced its proposed changes to its privacy policy, it sparked nothing short of an uproar from your privacy advocates to your casual internet user. It even recently drew attention from the European Union, with regulators ...
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Last year, the FTC started their antitrust investigation of Google. Since then, the company has launched their social network, Google+ and just recently changes to search where Google+ is highlighted.
This has sparked more concerns and the FTC ...
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Facebook tracking has come under FTC and Senate committee fire in recent times as rumors circulate in which Facebook tracks not only logged in users but also non-users who access any Facebook page for any number of ...
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Two years ago the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused Facebook of using "deceptive behavior" in an attempt to have site users accept privacy settings that benefited the company but left user accounts open to public scrutiny and ...
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The FTC haven't changed their rules for advertising in eleven-years and now the agency is welcoming public opinion to determine how they can change those rules to better adapt to the online environment.
FOC staff are busy updating ...
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After ruling that Google Buzz violated it's own privacy policy the FTC today announced long reaching privacy audits for the company that span more than two decades.
According to the Official Google Blog the company will now "ask ...
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Vitaminwater's brand concept is a bit brazen in their marketing- remember their "OJ found guilty... of being high in sugar, that is" campaign a few years back?
The no-caps line of flavored waters (which is part of Glaceau, ...
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Adobe Flash is used on 98% of computers around the world and now the FTC has taken an active interest in how the programs cookies are installed and uninstalled on user computers.
If you're familiar with Flash cookie ...
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Well this one caught me right off guard, especially coming from the FTC but is seems that the agency has made a rather interesting decision in its choice of their Chief Technologist.
In a press release this morning ...
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Google has been told by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that they can proceed forward with their purchase of popular mobile ad network AdMob.
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Steve Jobs probably isn't a very happy camper right around now. Word is that the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are negotiating with each other about which one of them is going ...
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There's a lot of noise being made about the fact that a group of of politicians from the House Energy and Commerce Committee want the FTC to call Google up for some serious question answering in regards ...
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When it comes to the Web and the Internet as a whole nothing polarizes people, companies and organization quicker that the subject of Net Neutrality. As the FTC progresses through developing its proposals for regulations meant to guarantee ...
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The FTC has hinted in an interview with Daily Finance that the rules about fairly disclosing comps in blog posts doesn't apply to people who happen to be awash in a sea of free goodies.
Yes, you, poor ...
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A group that advocates for internet privacy has filed a complaint (PDF) with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's new wide-ranging recent privacy changes.
Calling the action "the most significant case now before the Federal Trade Commission," the Electronic ...
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One of the big topics today that I have picked up from my morning reading is the news that Amazon is going to help you become a Twitter spammer.
Yup now you will be able to populate your ...
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has gone into bat on the side of bloggers, calling for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to withdraw its new rules forcing disclosure of financial relationships on blogs.
The IAB says ...
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While a lot of attention surrounding the new guidelines being issued by the FTC is regarding bloggers there is also another who section of advertisers that is going to get hit hard by these ...
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As I delve further into this whole FTC mess and their new guidelines, which you can download and read all 81 pages yourself, one thing is clear – celebrities are screwed. Now whether or ...
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With the US Federal Trade Commission now forcing bloggers to disclose anything that may have any influence over what they are writing, many are now offering their FTC disclosure upfront.
Mark Rizzn Hopkins (disclosure, Mark occasionally writes a ...
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See that line in the sand? The one that was drawn yesterday by the FTC and their new <gag> guidelines </gag> about bloggers having to disclose any and all interactions with advertisers, book ...
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As we covered earlier, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to crack down on "blogger endorsements" through a new set of rules that requires bloggers to disclose any freebie or financial relationship with the topic ...
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