The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its new .COM Disclosures standard on March 12, tightening considerably the requirements for disclosure statements for online advertisements, ads and reviews.
Federal Trade Commission said in 2010 that it would not be pursuing any action against Google as the company did not appear to have retained or utilised the data it had collected. The company will pay $7 million to settle a case backed up some 38...
At the time, Federal Trade Commission chair Jon Leibowitz told Consumer Reports, “We are very concerned about kids eliding around COPPA’s restrictions. COPPA is the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which prohibits sites...
Two US senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch a formal anti-trust investigation into Google. Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee have written to the FTC (PDF) about their fears that Google could be abusing its dominant...
Chairman Jon Leibowitz Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20580 Think about all the forms of information that used tobe very difficult to access, but which are now at your fingertips, empowered not only by the...
As the Federal Trade Commission continues their investigation and the Department of Justice reviews the Motorola and Admeld deals, Google’s PAC has also hired former Democratic House leader and now lobbyist Richard Gephardt.
Federal Trade Commission antitrust investigation after the Justice Department completes its review of Google's acquisition of travel software developer ITA Software and determines whether to challenge or impose restrictions on the deal.
Federal Trade Commission--unsurprisingly wanted more detail about what went wrong and how we could prevent it from happening again. We'll receive an independent review of our privacy procedures once every two years, and we'll ask users to give us...
With the Federal Trade Commission recently floating its do-not-track concept, and additional legislators piling on with new privacy bill proposal plans, many signs point to passed privacy legislation coupled with increased enforcement capabilities...
As marketers, we always hope that the Federal Trade Commission and other governing bodies will let us self-regulate. It's like the FTC is telling us, "you guys can't get it together, let us help you out a little bit.
Apple's recent honeymoon seems to be short-lived with reports of regulatory scrutiny coming from the Department of Justice and from the Federal Trade Commission on various grounds. Last but not least, as reported by our sister company ClickZ...
Chris Cox and the Federal Trade Commission were being discussed. Twitter offers us a simple way to see a list of "trending topics" -- small snippets of text that summarize material that's being shared via tweets.
Quoting an unnamed source close to the situation, the New York Post today reported that Apple's iPad/iPhone development restrictions could go under scrutiny by either the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expects the blogosphere to add a little sentence -- in undersize italics at the bottom of a post -- that reads: Experian Hitwise -- Okay, so they provide me with insights on how 10 million US Internet users...
FTC Sets New Guidelines for Blogger Endorsements and Word-of-Mouth Marketing Posted by Nathania Johnson Oct 6, 2009 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued new regulations regarding blogger endorsements and word-of-mouth marketing campaigns.
FTC Sets New Guidelines for Blogger Endorsements and Word-of-Mouth Marketing Posted by Nathania Johnson Oct 5, 2009 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued new regulations regarding blogger endorsements and word-of-mouth marketing campaigns.
The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, The A.P.reported, citing officials inside and outside the...
The Federal Trade Commission released a report recently "for public comment a set of proposed principles .designed to serve as the basis for industry self-regulatory efforts to address privacy concerns in this area.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated their online behavioral ad policy. I would prefer that the Commission take a more comprehensive approach to privacy, and evaluate behavioral advertising within that broader context.
Further information regarding these and other risks is included in our annual report on Form 20-F and other documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual report to shareholders, in...
