Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) proposed three solutions to Silicon Valley’s censorship practices: regulation, antitrust, and policing big tech’s fraud during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) sent a letter on Monday to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting it to take action on Facebook and Google’s potential anticompetitive behavior and violations of American privacy.
Office Depot and California-based tech support firm Support.com have agreed to settle for $35 million after being charged by the FTC on allegations that the companies scammed customers into spending millions of dollars on unnecessary services.
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), the chairman of the House Juduciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, on Tuesday, called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Facebook violated American antitrust laws.
According to a recent report from the New York Times, tech giant Facebook is under criminal investigation for a number of data deals with other major tech firms. The New York Times recently reported that federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation
Popular entertainment app TikTok will pay $5.7 million to the FTC over a children’s privacy complaint, which alleged that the company’s Musical.ly app was collecting data from children under 13 without parental consent.
According to the Washington Post, Facebook is in the process of negotiating with the FTC over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency’s investigation into Facebook’s privacy breaches.
Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an article for Time Magazine, Wednesday, in support of digital privacy and control through regulation.
Attorney General (AG) nominee William Barr said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that he’s interested in “reassessing” or learning more about the DOJ’s anti-trust policies regarding the Silicon Valley “huge behemoths” Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
Online scammers are reportedly using fake Netflix billing emails in an attempt to steal users’ personal and financial data.
A new report from the New York Times about the social media giant Facebook has called into question whether the company adhered to a 2011 consent decree with the FTC. One expert said that Mark Zuckerberg’s company operates “without any apparent sense that they have to follow the law, even while on parole.”
Massive strategic partnerships might prevent Facebook from upholding their promise to audit all third-party applications for user data leakage.
Law professor Adam Candeub disagreed with an FTC commissioner who argued social media platforms shouldn’t be subject to regulation.
Republican Federal Trade Commissioner (FTC) Noah Phillips dismissed the idea of using the agency’s antitrust authority to address social media giants’ censorship practices.
Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) called for a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of Google’s manipulation of their search engine given their ‘unrvivaled power’ and using their “monopoly to promote liberal agendas.”
Tim Wu, the former FTC senior adviser who coined the term “net neutrality,” has expressed support for the breaking up of Big Tech monopolies.
Investor’s Business Daily charged in an editorial on Thursday that net neutrality advocates unintentionally “made the case” for regulating Google and Facebook.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simmons on Thursday, urging the agency to investigate Google’s anti-competitive practices.
The leading U.S. communications union is joining a coalition calling for the Federal Trade Commission to break up and regulate Facebook.
Rep. Rokita warned that Google has “vast insight and influence into American consumers’ internet activities.”
The FBI, SEC, and Justice Department have joined a federal probe into Facebook’s user data scandal which saw the personal info of 87 million users allegedly shared without their explicit consent.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai claimed on Sunday that his agency’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order would make the Internet free, open, and fast following the repeal of net neutrality.
David Vladeck, the former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), claimed the FTC will be more likely to “impose a significant civil penalty on Facebook,” every time new scandals come out.
An Uber data breach in 2016 exposed the personal information of over 25 million Americans, according to a report.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook would not exist without net neutrality. However, the company was founded before any net neutrality rules existed.
Twenty-three consumer activist groups signed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calling for an investigation against YouTube for targeting ads at children.
Roslyn Layton, a visiting scholar for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told Breitbart News Saturday that “Google and Facebook have such an oligopoly” on advertising and that “we need to stop regulating Facebook’s competitors.”
Professor Tim Wu, a former advisor to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has claimed “privacy” is “like kryptonite” to Facebook’s business model.
The CEOs of Apple and IBM gave a blunt assessment of Facebook’s ongoing data privacy scandal.
The FTC has announced that they have opened a federal investigation into Facebook following the company’s latest user data scandal, citing “substantial concerns” about Facebook’s treatment of users’ private data.
