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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 has shut down the operator of a large network of online loan sites that promised to find people the loans with the lowest rates, but actually sold users’ data to third-parties, most of which weren’t even lenders. The target of FTC’s ire is a company named Blue Global Media, LLC and […]
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 […]
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 […]