GoodRx Pays $1.5 Million to Settle Health Privacy Allegations February 2, 2023 By Diane Bartz U.S. healthcare firm GoodRx Holdings has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations that it failed to notify customers...
U.S. Targets Non-Compete Clauses That Block Workers From Better Jobs January 6, 2023 By Diane Bartz The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which enforces antitrust law, proposed a rule that would ban companies from requiring workers to...
Government Funding Bill to Bolster U.S. Antitrust Regulators December 27, 2022 By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz A $1.7 trillion government funding bill approved by the U.S. Senate Thursday will bolster U.S. regulators and make it easier...
“Fortnite” Maker Epic Games to Settle Alleged Privacy Violation for $520M December 19, 2022 “Fortnite” creator Epic Games will pay $520 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected children’s personal information and tricked...
Meta Battles FTC Over Future of Virtual Reality December 9, 2022 By Katie Paul and Diane Bartz The Biden administration on Thursday accused Meta Platforms Inc. of trying to buy its way to dominance in the metaverse,...
FTC Aims to Clamp Down on Companies Engaged in Unfair Competition November 10, 2022 By Leah Nylen The US Federal Trade Commission plans to make wider use of its 1914 founding statute to police anticompetitive behavior by...
U.S. Supreme Court Considers Making Challenges to FTC, SEC Easier November 7, 2022 By Andrew Chung and Nate Raymond The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Monday to hear arguments in two cases that could make it easier to...
FTC Accuses Data Broker of Selling Sensitive Location Data August 31, 2022 By Marcy Gordon Federal regulators have sued a data broker they accuse of selling sensitive geolocation data from millions of mobile devices, information...
Twitter Misled Regulators on Hackers and Spam, Whistleblower Claims August 24, 2022 Twitter Inc. misled federal regulators about its defenses against hackers and spam accounts, the social media company’s former security chief...
Data ‘Surveillance’ Crackdown Begins With FTC Privacy Pitch August 12, 2022 By Andrea Vittorio The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public feedback on a proposed rulemaking to limit what it’s dubbed “commercial surveillance” by...