The Federal Trade Commission is suing Match Group for allegedly using fake love interest ads to trick consumers into paying for a subscription to dating site Match.com The site lets people create profiles for free but you need to pay for a subscription to respond to messages. Match sent emails to non-subscribers telling them they […]
What you need to know A person familiar with the matter says Google has agreed to pay a fine to the FTC between $150 to $200 million. The fine is over allegations that YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The fine has been criticized as being too low and amounting to only “two
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YouTube has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and New York attorney general for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to CNBC. The agreement includes a combined $170 million fine — $136 million to the FTC and $34 million to the New York attorney general — and requires YouTube
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will spend up to $200 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission investigation into YouTube’s alleged violation of a children’s privacy law, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is seen at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., November 1, 2018.
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There are numerous studies circulating that show how important reviews are to consumer purchase decision-making. To protect the integrity of online reviews Congress passed The Consumer Review Fairness Act (CRFA) in 2016. This was largely modeled on an earlier California law. CRFA makes non-disparagement clauses illegal. The intention of CRFA was to “prohibit the use
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As part of it's $5 billion settlement with the FTC, Facebook has detailed a range of new privacy and data protection measures. Source link
Facebook has entered into a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that will see the world’s largest social network pay a record-setting $5bn fine and submit to greater oversight of its practices. The settlement relates to a 2012 agreement that the company entered into with the FTC. Under that agreement, Facebook was obligated
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Facebook critics were grousing that $5 billion was too little to pay for the company’s alleged repeated violations of user privacy, in contravention of an earlier FTC consent decree. Indeed, the financial penalties could have been a great deal stronger. But we now know the settlement with the FTC comes with a range of strict
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been busy lately. The agency followed up its recent $5 billion Facebook fine with two new settlements last week and this morning, with YouTube and credit reporting agency Equifax. YouTube fine about kids and data collection. According to a report last week in The Washington Post Google and
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Anticipated for months, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted today to fine Facebook a record $5 billion for apparent violations of a 2011 consent decree that required the company to better protect user privacy. This is according to reports in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and AP. The commission voted 3-2, reportedly with
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