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'What idiots we are': Truth Social users lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers
2 months, 2 weeks ago

'What idiots we are': Truth Social users lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers

Raw Story  

A new report has published detailed complaints from users of former President Donald Trump's Truth Social app describing how they were fleeced by the site's hordes of scammers — including some who lost six-figure sums. According to Gizmodo' tech reporter Matt Novak — who filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the Federal Trade Commission seeking complaints about scams …

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Social media platforms engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ and failed to protect young people, FTC finds
3 months ago

Social media platforms engaged in ‘vast surveillance’ and failed to protect young people, FTC finds

LA Times  

Social media apps and video streaming services are still facing scrutiny from U.S. regulators over youth safety and privacy concerns. Major social media platforms and video streaming services that gather a “staggering” amount of data from their users have failed to protect young people and safeguard online privacy, the Federal Trade Commission said Thursday. “These surveillance practices can endanger people’s …

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US DOJ files lawsuit against TikTok, ByteDance for failing on child privacy
4 months, 3 weeks ago

US DOJ files lawsuit against TikTok, ByteDance for failing on child privacy

Al Jazeera  

The US alleges that for years millions of American children under 13 have been using TikTok and the site ‘has been collecting and retaining’ their data. The United States Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against TikTok and parent company ByteDance for failing to protect children’s privacy on the social media app The government said on Friday TikTok violated …

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Reddit reveals FTC inquiry into deals licensing its users’ data for AI training
9 months, 1 week ago

Reddit reveals FTC inquiry into deals licensing its users’ data for AI training

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Reddit said Friday that the Federal Trade Commission has opened an inquiry into the social media platform’s sale, licensing or sharing of its users’ posts and other content to outside organizations for use in training artificial intelligence models. “Given the novel nature of these technologies and commercial arrangements, we are not surprised that the FTC has expressed …

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Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case
1 year ago

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case

The Hindu  

The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18. In a lawsuit filed late Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., Meta Platforms Inc. said it …

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Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming ‘unconstitutional authority’ in child privacy case
1 year ago

Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming ‘unconstitutional authority’ in child privacy case

Associated Press  

MENLO PARK, Calif. — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18. In a lawsuit filed late Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C., Meta …

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Microsoft edits Activision Blizzard deal for the UK; Big Tech giants in Europe brace for Digital Services Act; FTC will probe Qualcomm’s chipmaker acquisition - The Hindu
1 year, 4 months ago

Microsoft edits Activision Blizzard deal for the UK; Big Tech giants in Europe brace for Digital Services Act; FTC will probe Qualcomm’s chipmaker acquisition - The Hindu

The Hindu  

Microsoft edits Activision Blizzard deal for the UK Microsoft is amending its Activision Blizzard takeover deal to get the UK antitrust regulator’s seal of approval. Microsoft President Brad Smith said that a deal had been struck with Ubisoft to sell cloud streaming rights for Activision games for more than a decade. Big Tech giants in Europe brace for Digital Services …

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ChatGPT is under investigation by the FTC
1 year, 5 months ago

ChatGPT is under investigation by the FTC

Daily Mail  

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, claiming it may have violated consumer protection laws by publishing defamatory information and putting data at risk. The FTC this week sent a 20-page demand for records about how OpenAI addresses risks related to its AI models as it investigates whether the company caused 'reputational harm' …

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FTC probes ChatGPT over possible consumer harms
1 year, 5 months ago

FTC probes ChatGPT over possible consumer harms

LA Times  

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s company is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over its wildly popular ChatGPT. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is demanding documents from OpenAI as part of a probe into whether the company’s conversational AI tool ChatGPT harms consumers, according to a report first published by the Washington Post. FTC Chair Lina Khan, who testified before …

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3 tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say
1 year, 5 months ago

3 tax prep firms shared ‘extraordinarily sensitive’ data about taxpayers with Meta, lawmakers say

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Three large tax preparation firms sent “extraordinarily sensitive” information on tens of millions of taxpayers to Facebook parent company Meta over the course of at least two years, a group of congressional Democrats reported on Wednesday. In a letter to the heads of the IRS, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS watchdog, seven …

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Amazon sued by U.S. regulator over thwarting attempts to cancel Prime membership
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon sued by U.S. regulator over thwarting attempts to cancel Prime membership

The Hindu  

Amazon has been sued by the Federal Trade Commission after it “knowingly duped millions of consumers” into signing up for an Amazon Prime membership and then made it difficult for them cancel the service, according to a press release from the FTC on Wednesday. The release said that for years, Amazon has used ‘dark patterns’ or user interface manipulations in …

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Amazon duped millions of people into enrolling in Prime: US FTC
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon duped millions of people into enrolling in Prime: US FTC

Al Jazeera  

FTC alleged that Amazon used ‘manipulative, coercive’ interface designs to trick users into enrolling in auto-renewal. The FTC said Amazon used “manipulative, coercive or deceptive user-interface designs known as ‘dark patterns’ to trick consumers into enrolling in automatically renewing Prime subscriptions”. The FTC said that “one of Amazon’s primary business goals – and the primary business goal of Prime – …

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FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscriptions
1 year, 6 months ago

FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscriptions

NPR  

FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscriptions Enlarge this image toggle caption FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the company for years "tricked" people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission, in a legal complaint filed on …

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Amazon to pay $30.8 million to settle FTC privacy claims
1 year, 6 months ago

Amazon to pay $30.8 million to settle FTC privacy claims

LA Times  

In one case that Amazon settled Wednesday, the FTC alleged that the company didn’t take steps to protect the privacy of users of its Ring video doorbell. In one case, the FTC alleged that Amazon didn’t take steps to protect the privacy of users of its Ring video doorbell. While the company said its Echo Dot Kids Edition and FreeTime, …

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FTC proposes ban on Meta profiting from minors’ data
1 year, 7 months ago

FTC proposes ban on Meta profiting from minors’ data

The Hindu  

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta's Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and proposed tightening an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban on making money from minors' data. Specifically, the FTC said Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact within the Messenger Kids app and …

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Virtual therapy app BetterHelp banned from sharing health data with Facebook and Snapchat for advertising
1 year, 9 months ago

Virtual therapy app BetterHelp banned from sharing health data with Facebook and Snapchat for advertising

The Hindu  

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has banned the virtual therapy app BetterHelp from sharing users’ data with Facebook and Snapchat for advertising, and has ordered the company to pay $7.8 million to some of its users in settlement. The app collected users’ contact details, personal information, and other sensitive mental health data, stating that they would protect it. “For example, …

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FTC fines GoodRx for unauthorized sharing of health data
1 year, 10 months ago

FTC fines GoodRx for unauthorized sharing of health data

Associated Press  

In a first-of-its-kind enforcement, the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a $1.5 million penalty on telehealth and prescription drug discount provider GoodRx Holdings Inc. for sharing users’ personal health data with Facebook, Google and other third parties without their consent. “The FTC is serving notice that it will use all of its legal authority to protect American consumers’ sensitive data …

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Explained | What are ‘dark patterns’ in the Internet
1 year, 11 months ago

Explained | What are ‘dark patterns’ in the Internet

The Hindu  

The story so far: Some Internet-based firms have been tricking users into agreeing to certain conditions or clicking a few links. Social media companies and Big Tech firms such as Apple, Amazon, Skype, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Google use dark or deceptive patterns to downgrade the user experience to their advantage. Dark patterns endanger the experience of Internet users and …

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U.S. slaps record penalty on Fortnite maker for alleged children's privacy violation
2 years ago

U.S. slaps record penalty on Fortnite maker for alleged children's privacy violation

The Hindu  

"Fortnite" creator Epic Games will pay $520 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected children's personal information and tricked people into making purchases, the Federal Trade Commission and the company said on Monday. Epic Games will also pay $245 million to refund consumers duped by so-called "dark patterns" into making purchases they did not intend to make, the FTC …

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Fortnite Maker Epic Games to Pay $520M Fine for Child Privacy, E-Commerce Violations
2 years ago

Fortnite Maker Epic Games to Pay $520M Fine for Child Privacy, E-Commerce Violations

News 18  

The maker of the popular Fortnite video game will pay $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints revolving around children’s privacy and its payment methods that tricked players into making unintended purchases, U.S. federal regulators said Monday. The Federal Trade Commission reached the settlements to resolve two cases against Epic Games Inc., which has parlayed Fortnite’s success in …

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Fortnite maker to pay $520M for privacy, e-commerce abuses
2 years ago

Fortnite maker to pay $520M for privacy, e-commerce abuses

Associated Press  

The maker of the popular Fortnite video game will pay $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints revolving around children’s privacy and its payment methods that tricked players into making unintended purchases, U.S. federal regulators said Monday. The Federal Trade Commission reached the settlements to resolve two cases against Epic Games Inc., which has parlayed Fortnite’s success in …

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Fortnite maker to pay $520M for privacy, e-commerce abuses
2 years ago

Fortnite maker to pay $520M for privacy, e-commerce abuses

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The maker of the popular …

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Meta battles U.S. antitrust agency over future of virtual reality
2 years ago

Meta battles U.S. antitrust agency over future of virtual reality

The Hindu  

The Biden administration on Thursday accused Meta Platforms Inc of trying to buy its way to dominance in the metaverse, kicking off a high-profile trial to try to prevent the Facebook parent from buying virtual reality app developer Within Inc. The FTC sued in July to stop the deal, saying Meta's acquisition of Within would "tend to create a monopoly" …

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FTC challenges Meta acquisition of VR company in court
2 years ago

FTC challenges Meta acquisition of VR company in court

Associated Press  

Federal regulators opened their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of a virtual-reality company Thursday in a San Jose, California, courtroom. In a landmark legal challenge to a Big Tech merger, the Federal Trade Commission has sued to prevent Meta’s acquisition of Within Unlimited and its fitness app Supernatural, asserting it would hurt competition and violate antitrust laws. “Meta …

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