Articles Tagged with ''consumer protection''

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has banned Texas company InMarket Media from selling precise location data for advertising purposes.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially adopted changes to data breach notification rules for communication companies.

Five tax preparation companies have been warned by the FTC in regards to what information can and can't be shared for outside purposes.

Listen to this episode of The Security Podcasts with Oded Anderman, Program Manager in Meta Platform’s Privacy organization, on data scraping.

According to a cybersecurity trends report, malware was the top online consumer threat from May to July 2023, accounting for 58% of all detections.

In response to FTC concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) and data privacy, consumer opinions on AI were analyzed from a recent Capterra survey. 

A new report reveals that more than 30% of cloud data assets contain sensitive information.

Under the proposed FTC order, Ring is prohibited from profiting from unlawfully accessing consumers videos and must pay $5.8 million in consumer refunds.

The use of consumer data was analyzed in a recent survey by Near Intelligence examining how consumer behavior data is used to make business decisions.

Google will pay an $85 million settlement to the State of Arizona for violating the state's Consumer Fraud Act with its location tracking feature.