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Not Facebook? You’re Still Not Off the Hook With Regulators
Facebook has agreed to pay a $5 billion fine to the FTC for its most recent privacy issues, but that doesn't mean smaller businesses are immune from oversight.
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Privacy Scandals Don't Harm Profit: The Case for Regulation
If scandals which appear to damage a company's reputation don't affect its bottom line, what incentive do companies have to change their behavior?
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FTC Cracks Down on Shady Social Media Practices
Remember how mad your parents got when you broke their house rules? Well, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants online marketers to know if their businesses fail to follow its new guidelines, the agency is prepared to ground those businesses for a lot longer than a Saturday night.
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Say What? Cisco, Microsoft Want to Help Your Cloud Talk to Customers
Cisco is expanding its long-standing relationship with Microsoft. It's a new effort to automate hybrid cloud service provisioning for service providers. Normally, when we say “service providers” and we don’t mean cloud providers like Amazon, we mean communications providers like Verizon. But in this case, we mean both.
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Fed Regulator Tells Marketers: Be Careful with Data Collection
Marketers recite the benefits of mobile tracking like a mantra: It helps give consumers the information they want at the exact time and place they want and need it.
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Long Road Still Ahead in Microsoft-Nokia Deal
The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have given their blessing to the merger of Microsoft and Nokia. Now the European Commission has followed suit, all but green-lighting the deal.
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FTC Updates Digital Advertising Guidelines, Focuses on Usability and Transparency
I t used to be that business on the Internet was a lot like Las Vegas. What happened there, stayed there. But over the past few years, the web has become a hub to online business, resulting in millions of online transactions, interactions and marketing campaigns.
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FTC Report Recommends New Mobile Privacy Practices
Smartphones are booming with new features, powerful tools -- and a growing supply of privacy issues. To address this, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released a new report with recommendations for privacy standards and practices. The report, “Mobile Privacy Disclosures -- Building Trust through Transparency,” was
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FTC Closes Google Investigation; Google Required to Modify Business Practices #FTCantitrust
In June 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would begin examining Google for anti-competitive practices. Nearly two years later, the FTC announced what it found.
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Google Expected to Pony Up $22.5 Million Fine for Safari User Tracking Violations
Google is expected to pay a governmental fine of US$ 22.5 million to settle charges that it bypassed privacy settings on Apple users’ Safari browsers, according to various news reports. The fine by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which would be the largest in that agency’s history, would amount
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Google's Comprehensive Privacy Program Announced
Being true to its settlement agreement with the FTC in March of last year, Google pre-announced yesterday a comprehensive update that consolidates some 60 privacy policy documents, plus a refresh of its terms of service agreement. Both are to begin March 1, but are available now for review online.
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Facebook to Propose 'Opt-In' Privacy Settlement With FTC
Facing challenges over its privacy practices -- or lack thereof -- Facebook is reportedly proposing a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. This is all according to a Wall Street Journal report, which has been cited by many news outlets: According to people familiar with the talks, the settlement would
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Mobile Enterprise: Clumsy Clicking Wastes Mobile Dollars, Legislation Protects Mobile Users' Privacy
This week, the mobile enterprise addresses mobile advertising, privacy and the availability of Verizon iPhone 4. Is Mobile Advertising a Waste of Money? For those who look to online analytics to provide metrics for your advertising campaigns, new research suggests that you may not want to take it too personally.
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Is the Advertising Option Icon a Viable Alternative to 'Do Not Track'?
Interested in how information about your online behaviors is collected? Forget Do Not Track or the Privacy Bill of Rights. Instead, look no further than the Advertising Option Icon, which lets consumers make informed choices about online privacy.
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