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A new study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission has shown that just 13 percent of children under 18 were able to buy video games that were rated M for Mature, which is a significantly better number than the 20% that could do the same in 2009.
The study is based on the “secret shopper” technique a... |
21 April 2011
08:57 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission reports that the most common type of complaints received last year were about identity theft and amounted to 19% of the total.FTC's 2010 Top Consumer Complaints list is based on categorizing 1,339,265 reports received last year from individuals.A number of 250,854 of those were relat... |
9 March 2011
02:39 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against a man from Huntington Beach, California, alleging that he is responsible for sending millions of SMS spam messages.According to the complaint, during a 40-day period alone, defendant Phillip A. Flora sent over 5.5 million unsolicited commercial text messages at a... |
24 February 2011
11:52 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing for users to be given an uniform and persistent way to opt out of online tracking and behavioral advertising.Recent times have seen companies abuse new technologies to track users' browsing habits without their permission in order to serve them customized content a... |
2 December 2010
10:54 GMT |
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US Search, a company specializing in people search and background checks, has settled charges brought against by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for allegedly offering a deceptive privacy-related service.According to the company, its solutions involve looking through criminal and court records, marriage records, d... |
24 September 2010
03:33 GMT |
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Sears Holdings Management Corporation, owner of Sears and Kmart retail chains, has agreed to settle the charges brought on by the Federal Trade Commission for promoting a data collecting software program to customers, but failing to properly disclose the scope of the personal information being gathered. According to... |
6 June 2009
04:59 GMT |
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A district court judge has ordered Pricewert, a company incorporated in Oregon, to cease all operations after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against it for knowingly and actively collaborating with cybercrooks, to whom it offered various Internet services. Pricewert, which is headquartered... |
5 June 2009
04:23 GMT |
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has petitioned the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate the privacy and security safeguards of Google's cloud computing services, which include Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa Web Albums. This follows a recent security breach that has exposed private G... |
19 March 2009
07:22 GMT |
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The gaming industry isn't one that doesn't have problems, as it is plagued by various petitions or backlash coming from a lot of directions. But none have manifested so severely as the one against the DRM (Digital Rights Management) software that some companies have chosen to include along with their games ... |
9 January 2009
16:51 GMT |
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After ignoring the requirements of the restraining order served to them, the defendants in the scareware lawsuit brought up by the Federal Trade Commission were threatened by the judge with arrest warrants. Only Sam Jain, Kristy Ross, Marc D'Souza, and James Reno, on their behalf, and the Bytehosting Internet Se... |
19 December 2008
09:28 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced through a press release that a district court judge had served the people behind a major scareware marketing campaign with a temporary restraining order, prohibiting them to continue advertising the products. According to the complaint filed by the FTC, the defendants were... |
11 December 2008
10:39 GMT |
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A federal judge has signed a temporary restraining order, prohibiting CyberSpy Software, LLC to sell its popular RemoteSpy product, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint (PDF file) against the company for violating the fair trade law. The company advertised their software as being 100% undetectab... |
20 November 2008
09:56 GMT |
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Electronic Arts has announced that all talks with Take Two regarding a possible acquisition have been terminated and that its offer for the company is now off the table.Just a short while ago, Electronic Arts asked Take Two to enter closed door talks that were designed to show what the two companies had in common and... |
15 September 2008
04:25 GMT |
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Electronic Arts says that it is entering a confidentiality agreement with Take Two today, which is aimed at prohibiting the two companies from revealing any detail regarding the face to face talks that are due to take place in the near future.Take Two is set to present Electronic Arts with guidance information regard... |
26 August 2008
03:35 GMT |
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If you woke up today experiencing a slight feeling of dj-vu, think for a moment of the situation that the managers at Electronic Arts are in as they experience the dj-vu of their lives just as they are announcing, for the fourth time, that they plan to extend the deadline for a hostile takeover of Take Two, the publi... |
22 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Intel announced on Friday that it is going through a formal investigation launched by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company has already faced similar antitrust probes in Europe and Asia. Intel has been accused for a long time of abusing its dominance over the chip market. At this moment, more than 80 percent... |
9 June 2008
08:26 GMT |
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It's again that time of the month when we get to talk about how Electronic Arts tries and tries to get Take Two in a hostile takeover bid, and about how Take Two again and again manages to maintain its independence. The deadline (the third one for anyone who's still counting) related to the takeover offer i... |
5 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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