Video game companies should prioritize compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other consumer protection laws in the wake of the FTC's Jan. 17 settlement with the makers of videogame Genshin Impact, Stacy Feuer, senior vice president of the Entertainment Software Rating Board's Privacy Certified program, wrote in a blog post Friday.
Platforms targeting children and mixed audiences should update their “privacy policies and consent practices” by year's end to comply with new FTC rules under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, attorneys at Fenwick said Tuesday.
The regulatory freeze ordered by President Donald Trump could potentially affect the Biden’s administration’s pending rule on children’s privacy.
The FTC released some initial insights from the surveillance pricing study, with findings that indicated intermediaries have access to a large amount of data types and sources, as well as tools that can influence prices that consumers see, said the commission in a blog Friday.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, filed a complaint Thursday at the FTC alleging that Google sends huge quantities of Americans’ sensitive data to China and other foreign adversaries, EPIC announced in a news release.
The FTC will require GoDaddy to implement a robust information security program after the agency alleged that the website-hosting company failed to secure itself against potentially harmful attacks, the FTC announced Wednesday.
The FTC on Tuesday announced two nonmonetary settlements with data brokers related to location data.
The FTC scored a key enforcement victory in its data privacy lawsuit against Kochava at the motion to dismiss stage, FTC Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday during a Brookings Institution event.