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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may fine Google millions for hacking past a key privacy setting on iPhones and iPads using Apple’s Safari web browser. The Commission is reportedly analyzing the matter to determine how big the fine should be.Google reportedly placed tracking cookies on iOS, the underlying sof... |
5 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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A subdomain of the site owned by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC.gov) has been found to contain a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.
The hacker that found the vulnerability, Gambit, provided Softpedia with a proof of concept that demonstrates the existence of the security hole.
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28 April 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Surprisingly or not, Electronic Privacy Information Center's (EPIC) lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission, in which it asked it to go after Google over its latest privacy policy change, has been dismissed by a judge. The judge decided that EPIC had no grounds to ask the FTC to do anything and that EPIC... |
25 February 2012
05:51 GMT |
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Google's privacy woes are dragging other parties into the mess. The company recently announced plans to unify 60 privacy policies into one document that would govern over most Google products.
The idea is to make it easier for users to know what they are getting.
The new privacy policy, however, also makes i... |
20 February 2012
07:27 GMT |
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Anonymous hacked the official website of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and its partner site the National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), defacing them to post an anti-ACTA protest message and an amusing video that shows the devastating effects the pact has on Internet freedom. FTC came forward with a statem... |
17 February 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) continue both online and in the real world. Anonymous hackers defaced a series of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) webpages and the site that belongs to the NCPW to show that they don’t approve of the pact. The Hacker News informs that... |
17 February 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Mobile app marketers received letters from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding a number of six mobile applications used to perform background checks. The FTC warns the companies that if their applications are used for employment screening, housing or credit purposes, they must comply with the Fair Credit Rep... |
8 February 2012
14:01 GMT |
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled an agreement with individuals and companies who were caught running a massive fake antivirus campaign and, now, they plan on sharing the $8 million (5.6 million EUR) they won with a few hundred thousand consumers who paid certain amounts of money for scareware software.
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12 December 2011
03:00 GMT |
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Online companies may be playing fast and loose with user privacy, but it seems that this may finally be coming to an end. The US Federal Trade Commission is said to be close to reaching a settlement with Facebook which would have the social network amend some of its user privacy practices and also submit to audits fr... |
11 November 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Last month, the US Federal Trade Commission started a broad investigation of Google's business, looking into whether the company abuses its power to overtake competitors. Now, there's more data on the areas that the investigation focuses on and they're mostly things that should have been anticipated.Th... |
11 August 2011
09:44 GMT |
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Google has confirmed that the US Federal Trade Commission has started an investigation of its business. It has also responded to the investigation, though it doesn't know exactly what the FTC will be focusing on. Google's response is more of a general statement than anything else, and it's not somethin... |
25 June 2011
06:21 GMT |
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It looks like a certain financial transaction that the world's prime supplier of CPUs was seeking, and which had been put on hold a while ago, has finally been approved by the Federal Trade Commission.
Intel seems to decide on buying companies quite often, though this is hardly surprising for such a large-sc... |
25 June 2011
06:20 GMT |
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Google is about to get its most intense scrutiny yet, the US Federal Trade Commission is about to send it subpoenas as part of a broad investigation into Google's core business that will start momentarily. Nothing is confirmed yet, but the Wall Street Journal and other reports are indicating that the FTC is warp... |
24 June 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has gotten off easy with its proposal to acquire Skype, the FTC has already approved the deal, meaning that it will be able to move forward and close the deal soon. Ahead of that though, it seems that Skype has already started doing some housekeeping and has fired several top executives to get ready for the... |
20 June 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Google announced plans to acquire Admeld, an online advertising startup which would help it cover areas of the online ad landscape it's currently not available in. While not official, Google was said to be willing to pay $400 million for the company, so the deal was obviously going to get some... |
18 June 2011
07:37 GMT |
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is ending its investigation over Google's Street View WiFi fiasco, the agency said in a public letter addressed to Google. In the letter, the FTC recognized Google's promise to revise its internal policies concerning privacy and data collection and decided to end invest... |
28 October 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Apple's move to exclude Flash as a supported standard on its iOS devices is being investigated by European regulators who've now teamed with the Federal Trade Commission to probe the company's policies and determine whether the Cupertino-based giant is harming competition.The New York Post is rep... |
10 August 2010
15:41 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission has been on Intel's heels for quite some time, after charges arose that the latter had been using anticompetitive practices meant to stifle the marketing performance of rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA and VIA, among others. The lawsuit had been going on since December 2... |
5 August 2010
08:52 GMT |
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The ongoing legal battle between the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and CPU giant Intel Corp. may finally come to a conclusion if the reports circulating on the Internet are anything to go by. The FTC accused the company, back in December, of engaging in illegal means of stifling competition on the CPU and GPU market... |
22 July 2010
05:59 GMT |
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As if Twitter wasn’t having a bad couple of weeks already, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has come out with what amounts to a slap on the wrist for Twitter for its security practices. The site has suffered from a couple of fairly publicized attacks and they were enough to get the FTC’s attention. T... |
25 June 2010
04:26 GMT |
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Google owns the world’s largest online advertising network, something that helped it become one of the most powerful and richest tech companies in the world. But its position also made it a target for government regulators all over the world. While it managed to steer clear of trouble so far, it looks like its ... |
19 May 2010
11:31 GMT |
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Google's ambitious, new wave of acquisitions may be hampered by the realities of being one of the largest companies on the web. Google already dominates in many areas and, with each new move, competitors and government regulators are getting more concerned and twitchy. The latest example is the AdMob acquisition... |
11 March 2010
04:32 GMT |
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The heated battle between the FTC and Intel is still going strong, with both parties making their respective moves, motions and complaints. A more recent development had Intel filing a motion through which it tried to exclude Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch from the case, on the grounds that the latter had served as Int... |
30 January 2010
05:57 GMT |
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The accusations filed by the Federal Trade Commission against Intel seem to have become the vehicle for rather heated statements on the part of the Santa Clara chip maker. Predictably, the antitrust settlement between Intel and AMD did not eliminate the tensions between the two. More recently, a published response ha... |
14 January 2010
10:34 GMT |
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Cloud computing is a hot term of 2009, though it's one of the most abused as well. As a concept, cloud computing doesn't have a clear definition yet and its meaning has evolved from its initial designation to encompass almost every form of web-based product. Even so, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) i... |
5 January 2010
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When the FTC filed its antitrust charges against Intel Corp. about two weeks ago, some parties believed that Intel's x86 license might be in danger. NVIDIA was quite pleased with the events and rumors that ARM chips might finally see a wider adoption started to sprout, even though the FTC quickly responded by sa... |
29 December 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Completely unsurprising, Google is facing more and more resistance and scrutiny as it continues to get into new markets and increases its dominance in the ones it is already present. Very recently, Google has announced its acquisition plans of mobile advertising company AdMob for the hefty of $750 million. It would ... |
28 December 2009
11:31 GMT |
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Not too long ago, the Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp. on the grounds that the latter had been using anticompetitive tactics in order to ensure and/or strengthen in monopoly. The FTC claimed that it was seeking a ruling aimed to prevent Intel from similar tactics in the future. ... |
19 December 2009
04:15 GMT |
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NVIDIA isn't the only one rejoicing over the Federal Trade Commission's legal actions taken against Intel a short while ago. The possibility of Intel's practices eventually being restricted seems to provide new expansion possibilities for other existing technologies, one of which is the ARM processor a... |
18 December 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Just yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission filed its own antitrust lawsuit against Intel, claiming that the chip maker engaged in anticompetitive tactics in order to keep and/or strengthen its monopoly on the CPU market. The FTC also alludes to Intel possibly feeling threatened by the advent of GPUs, which, the Com... |
17 December 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Those who follow the news must know that, yesterday, Intel was hit by yet another antitrust case. The plaintiff is none other than the Federal Trade Commission. The accusations include alleged threats and incentives directed by Intel towards large manufacturers, such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, in order to lea... |
17 December 2009
02:56 GMT |
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Everyone already knows that with great power comes great responsibility. However, what some people may not have yet realized is that with great power also comes a rather large heap of problems. Intel has been learning this lesson for the past several years and, again, it is faced with this grim reality now that it ha... |
16 December 2009
11:29 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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This merger has been one of the top topics of discussion for some time, and it finally looks like the largest mobile network in the States is ready to get busy and become the giant everyone's expecting to see. Although Verizon had settled with Alltel, as you probably already know, some time ago, the FTC approval... |
11 December 2008
05:38 GMT |
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The U.S Supreme Court has been asked by the Federal Trade Commission to intervene in a case in which Rambus, a memory maker known for its legal actions against some of the major players on the hardware computer market, is accused to have demonstrated anticompetitive behavior and deceived the Joint Electron Devic... |
25 November 2008
11:14 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission, which is charged with overseeing all major transactions that might involve a monopoly situation, has announced that it green-lighted a possible takeover of Take Two by Electronic Arts.The FTC says that "it now appears that no additional action by the commission is warranted at this time.... |
21 August 2008
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The FTC (short for Federal Trade Commission) takes ID theft very seriously and consequently is planning to conduct a survey on identity theft victims that have contacted the organization earlier this year. The goal of this survey is to detect flaws in the system, make crime fighting more efficient and better educate... |
4 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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The computer processor market had been dominated, for the past decade or so, by two big names, Intel and AMD, with the latter almost constantly occupying the underdog position. As you might have heard from quite a lot of our previous articles on this subject, the big "Chipzilla", as Intel is also known as, has been s... |
24 June 2008
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Only the sixth company to settle an U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint for sending porn spam since 2005, Cyberheat from Tucson, Arizona, has agreed to pay the $413,000 as a penalty for its actions. The Company did not directly send the spam to the recipients, but it operated an affiliate marketing program paying... |
5 March 2008
17:36 GMT |
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The United States Federal Trade Commission had to step down in a legal dispute that was about to prevent any computer user from taking advantage of the Ethernet standard. Or at least, it would have prevented the users from freely using the old and beloved port. N-Data, one of the zillions of companies that do not pro... |
25 January 2008
05:58 GMT |
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Google's acquisition plan of DoubleClick was at first looked upon with a raised eyebrow when the offer was first made and, after that, all hell broke loose when it was accepted. Yahoo! and Microsoft instantly caught fire under their feet and started complaining, followed closely by AT&T. Their biggest concern wa... |
22 January 2008
07:06 GMT |
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On December 20th, Microsoft made the first step into the era of Google monopoly. Back in September 2007, Brad Smith, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, Microsoft, during his appearance before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, revealed that ... |
21 December 2007
08:45 GMT |
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AdultFriendFinder, the company that has assaulted us with porn advertisements and all kinds of sexual messages, is about to clean its marketing campaigns and display only authorized and legal banners. In you've never seen such an advert, although I think it's simply impossible to avoid them, they are usual... |
7 December 2007
04:40 GMT |
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The case concerning the Google - DoubleClick acquisition seems to be one of the most popular stories in the last few months due to the statements made by the officials related to the matter. Today, Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz said for Reuters that the agency is working as quickly as possible to resolve t... |
2 November 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission confirmed that an avalanche of email messages claiming to be sent by the federal agency aim to steal the usernames and passwords stored on victims' computers. According to the Associated Press, the emails come from frauddep[at]ftc.gov and inform the receivers that the FTC filed a law... |
1 November 2007
07:55 GMT |
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Yahoo's acquisition of email software company Zimbra was approved by the Federal Trade Commission, the transaction being supposed to get finalized in the upcoming days. According to Reuters, the FTC analyzed the agreement between the two companies in order to find out if it can harm the competition or if it infr... |
2 October 2007
09:01 GMT |
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Three men that infected more than 15 million computers with spyware are going to pay $330.000 in ill-gotten gains. They've made huge profits from their scam, about $3.5 million. The fine, less than 10% of their financial gains isn't going to affect them quite a lot. However, the good part is that the Media ... |
2 October 2007
04:45 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission started an antitrust investigation over Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, an advertising company that was bought by the search giant for $3.1 billion. Just after the acquisition was officially confirmed, several names, including Microsoft, complained about the transaction, saying ... |
29 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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