Last year, a coalition of privacy advocates and child psychologists warned against putting an Amazon Alexa speaker anywhere near your child on the fairly reasonable grounds that developing minds shouldn’t befriend always-on surveillance devices, no matter how cute the packaging. Now, a group of privacy researchers, attorneys, and U.S. senators are calling on the Federal […]
Fraudsters Stole More Than $1B from Americans in 2018…
More Americans reported losing money to fraud and scams in 2018 when compared with the year prior. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a recent report that it received 3 million consumer complaints, including more than 1.4 million fraud reports – with people claiming to have lost money in about one-quarter of those reports. […]
The FTC and Facebook Negotiating a Multi-Billion-Dollar Fine for the Company’s Privacy Violations…
The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook are negotiating over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into the social media giant’s privacy practices, according to two people familiar with the probe. The fine would be the largest the agency has ever imposed on a technology company, but the two sides have not […]
FCC Plans Total Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate. The commission will vote on the proposal in December, some seven months…
U.S. Senator on Equifax Hack: ‘Somebody Needs to Go to Jail’…
Thirty-six U.S. senators on Tuesday called on federal authorities to investigate the sale of nearly $2 million in shares of credit bureau Equifax Inc (EFX.N) by company executives after a massive data breach, and one compared their actions to insider trading. The lawmakers signed a letter asking the U.S. Department of Justice…
Google’s New Program to Track Shoppers Sparks a Federal Privacy Complaint…
A prominent privacy rights watchdog is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate a new Google advertising program that ties consumers’ online behavior to their purchases in brick-and-mortar stores. The legal complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, to be filed with the FTC on Monday, alleges that Google is newly gaining access…
What’s up with the Massive EpiPen Price Hike?….
Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, asked Mylan to explain a steep price increase in the price of Epipens in recent years, citing complaints from…