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Article | 20/04/2011 FTC takes action against 'fake' news sites
Several websites apparently featuring news reports that show the weight-loss benefits of acai berry products aren't what they appear to be, the U.S. F...
Article | 13/04/2011 Kerry, McCain introduced online privacy bill
Two high-profile U.S. senators have introduced legislation designed to give consumers more control over what information about them is collected onlin...
Article | 5/04/2011 California lawmaker touts do-not-track bill
A state senator in California has introduced a bill that would allow Web surfers to opt out of online tracking efforts by websites and advertising net...
Article | 1/04/2011 Protect online privacy without reading the fine print
Your personal data is out there. Every thought you tap out on Twitter, every status update you post on Facebook, and even the last credit card purchas...
Article | 1/04/2011 The state of 'Do Not Track' on the internet
Users concerned with online privacy have been struggling for years to come up with a solution to being tracked on the Web. Such users either want to a...
Article | 31/03/2011 Google settles FTC complaint over Buzz
Google has agreed to settle a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission charging the company with using deceptive tactics and violating its own...
Article | 9/03/2011 FTC: ID theft again tops consumer complaints
Reports of identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in 2010, the 11th straight year that ID theft ha...
Article | 5/03/2011 Republican lawmaker promises new online privacy legislation
A senior Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives will soon introduce legislation designed to give Web users more control of their perso...
Article | 3/03/2011 FTC, DOJ crack down on money-making schemes
A yearlong sweep targeting bogus employment and money-making schemes has resulted in more than 90 law enforcement and civil actions, including a restr...
Article | 24/02/2011 FTC asks court to shut down text spammer
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a judge to shut down an alleged text-messaging spam operation that sent out 85 text messages per minute at...
Article | 4/02/2011 FTC settles complaints against credit report resellers
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved proposed settlements of complaints against three credit report resellers after the agency accused them ...
Article | 1/02/2011 Court shuts down online immigration document 'scam'
A U.S. court has shut down an online operation that allegedly posed as the U.S. government and charged customers fees between US$200 and $2,500 for im...
Article | 28/01/2011 Alleged 'scareware' vendors to pay $8.2 million to FTC
The operator of an alleged "scareware" scheme, using deceptive advertising to trick Internet users into buying software to fix their supposedly infect...
Article | 22/12/2010 'Do Not Track' coming to Firefox 4
Hard on the heels of Microsoft's decision to offer "do not track" functionality in its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 browser comes word that Mozilla is...
Article | 23/09/2010 FTC settles privacy complaint against online data broker
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with online data broker US Search on complaints that the company failed to deliver on promi...