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Online Health Firm Cerebral to Pay $7 Million for Sharing Private Data
Cerebral, accused by the FTC of sharing sensitive information of over 3.2 million users with third parties, is now banned from using health info for advertising purposes ...
Avast FTC Fine: Antivirus Vendor Fined $16.5M For Data Sale
Avast, the famous antivirus software company, has been hit by a $16.5 million fine by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Avast FTC fine was imposed after the FTC revealed that it ...
Avast Hit With $16.5 Million Fine for Selling Customer Data
Avast Software will pay a $16.5 million fine to settle a federal complaint accusing the antivirus vendor of collecting users’ browsing data over six years and selling it to advertising companies without ...
TEGWAR, AI and the FTC – Gov’t Agency Warns of Deceptive AI Contract Language
Data collection and use policies need to be reexamined because of AI. The FTC is trying to address the issue ...
FTC Issues Its First-Ever Order Against a Data Broker
Federal regulators are banning OutLogic from selling or sharing sensitive location data to third parties, marking the latest effort by government officials to address the thorny issue of data brokers and what ...
Federal Judge Lets FTC Continue with Restrictions Against Meta
A federal court judge gave U.S. regulators the green light to prohibit Meta from monetizing the data its various entities – including Facebook and Instagram – collect from users under the age ...
Former Uber CISO Appealing His Conviction
Joe Sullivan, Uber’s CEO during their 2016 data breach, is appealing his conviction. Prosecutors charged Sullivan, whom Uber hired as CISO after the 2014 breach, of withholding information about the 2016 incident ...
FTC: Americans lost $2.7 Billion Since 2021 to Social Media Scams
Americans lost a whopping $2.7 billion in scams that reached them via social media, and the actual figure could be much higher, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Of those who ...
Behind the Headlines: Understanding The FTC’s Microsoft Case
The Xbox network, more popularly known and branded as Xbox Live, has been one of Microsoft's most successful and popular ventures of the past two decades. Available in 42 countries, Xbox Live ...
Behind the Headlines: Understanding The FTC’s Microsoft Case
The Xbox network, more popularly known and branded as Xbox Live, has been one of Microsoft's most successful and popular ventures of the past two decades. Available in 42 countries, Xbox Live ...
