The FTC is stepping up privacy enforcement – reports Bloomberg Law‘s Sara Merken.
“The Federal Trade Commission is issuing specific data security requirements to companies as part of agency settlements, policing businesses more aggressively than before, attorneys and former staff said.”
“Mandates in related consent orders, such as directing senior officers to provide
Is the FTC’s Google-YouTube settlement a “game changer”?
“It’s three times larger than any privacy penalty assessed against Google anywhere else in the world, and it is 10 times larger than the civil penalties we have obtained in all of our 31 prior COPPA cases combined… A penalty of this magnitude sends a strong signal
The Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General have entered into landmark settlement with Google and YouTube for alleged violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
The settlement requires Google and YouTube to pay $136 million to the FTC and $34 million to New York, the largest penalty since the law
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order settling charges that a background screening company falsely claimed to be in compliance with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield frameworks.
SecurTest, Inc. agreed in June to settle FTC charges that its website falsely claimed that it participated in the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
Tell me don’t sell me.
In a new settlement order with the Federal Trade Commission, Unrollme was ordered to notify all its active users of the fact that it accesses or collects email purchase receipts for use in market research products that are sold to third parties and to delete the information of anyone that
A bipartisan pair of senators has drafted a data privacy bill that would give the Federal Trade Commission more enforcement tools, while preempting state laws.
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) now writing their own bill in a bid to see if they can attract the support of other lawmakers, as the August
“The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a record-setting $5 billion on Friday for privacy violations, according to multiple reports. The penalty comes after an investigation that lasted over a year, and marks the largest in the agency’s history by an order of magnitude. If approved by the Justice Department’s civil division, it will also be
The FTC has entered into a consent order with a sole proprietor for a failure to implement reasonable protections of personal information.
At issue were the following statements, which the FTC held to be deceptive/misleading:
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has entered into a settlement agreement with a company that claims on its website that it is EU U.S. Privacy Shield certified, when in fact, it had only started the process and stopped midway.
The FTC also sent warning letters to: