The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered mental telehealth company Cerebral from using or disclosing personal medical data for advertising purposes. It has also been fined more than $7 million over charges that it revealed users’ sensitive personal health information and other data to third-parties for advertising purposes and failed to honor its easy […]
The Federal Trade Commission launched a case against data broker Kochava on Monday, saying that the business sells geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices, frequently without user consent, which might expose people’s private actions, such as trips to reproductive health clinics. The complaint provides evidence of the agency’s response to the Biden […]
Researchers discovered a new wave of FTCODE ransomware campaign that steal browsers login credentials and Encrypt files in Windows systems. FTCODE ransomware was first observed in 2013, it uses the Windows PowerShell program to perform file encryption. The ransomware resurfaced again starting from last year September, according to Certego analysis of the FTCODE ransomware, it […]
After several months of negotiations, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a record amount of $5 billion from Facebook in connection with a confidentiality investigation concerning the scandal with Cambridge Analytica. The agreement will put an end to a large-scale investigation that began more than a year ago and focused on a breach of […]
Data protection specialists report on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decision to apply a $5 billion USD fine to Facebook due to multiple practices that violate several social media users’ privacy protection laws. The FTC’s decision has led to multiple unconformities because, after months of debate and investigations into the social network well-known misconduct […]
D-Link has agreed to make some security enhancements that have reorganized the company’s security platform to resolve disputes from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) because it has misinterpreted the security of its product. The case stems from complaints from corporate routers and IoT cameras against D-Link in 2017 that disclosed confidential consumer information to third […]
A report by The Washington Post has indicated that the Federal Trade Commission is planning on punishing Facebook with a “record-setting” fine for failing to protect users’ data. The information to the post came from three anonymous people who are familiar with the proceedings of FTC. Soon after the report was published, Facebook’s shares witnessed […]
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The FTC has filed a lawsuit against D-Link for failing to protect its customers against ‘well known and easily preventable software security flaws’ in its routers and IoT cameras. The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against D-Link, claiming the company put thousands of customers at risk of unauthorised access by […]
The US Federal Trade Commission has again acted on its serious concerns about data privacy and security in the Internet of Things (IoT). This time D-Link webcams and routers are the focus. Stephen Cobb puts this latest FTC move in context.
Commission settlement officially $17.5 million, but fine reduced due to inability to pay. Ashley Madison, the dating website for married people seeking extramarital affairs, will pay the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $1.6 million for its failure to protect the account information of 36 million users, for failing to delete account information after regretful users paid a […]
If it can happen to her, chances are it can happen to lots of people. In a scenario that’s growing increasingly common, the chief technologist of the US Federal Trade Commission recently lost control of her smartphone after someone posing as her walked into a mobile phone store and hijacked her number. Details of the incident […]
Asus lied about its routers’ security, it delayed security patches for months, and now it’s paying the price. A few months back, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Taiwan-based hardware maker Asus, accusing it of misrepresenting its products’ security features and failing to address security vulnerabilities. The two parties have agreed to a […]
Commission faults Oracle’s Java SE update process with making consumers’ computers insecure. Oracle received a public slap on the wrist from the US Federal Trade Commission over Java SE, the desktop runtime for Java. The FTC announced today that it had reached a settlement with Oracle Corporation over a complaint not about the security of Java […]
The Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission has offered stern warnings of privacy in relation to the Internet of Things in her opening remarks at CES 2015, reports SC Magazine.
With EPIC filing an FTC privacy complaint against Facebook, which is already the subject of a Consent Order due to a previous privacy settlement, the social network could be facing a hefty fine for emotion-based manipulation of the Newsfeed for research purposes.
Baby monitors which shipped with security flaws that allowed hackers to watch and listen to babies from remote locations have led to an FTC complaint against the company responsible, Trendnet.
A telemarketing company has been hit with a $7.5m fine for repeatedly contacting people on the Do Not Call Registry – the largest civil penalty ever issued in a Do Not Call case.
According to recent statistics, Google is said to be occupying 77% of the search engine market and FTC (Federal Trade Commission) believes it is taking unfair advantage of this monopoly. FTC is all said to be taking serious measures to stop Google’s growth. FTC has setup a page report against Google’s mis-use of powers, which […]