Companies should review the FTC’s new child privacy rules, even if the Trump administration is planning to alter what the Biden administration attempted to finalize, compliance attorneys at Akin Gump said Monday.
Consumers have until June 5 to file claims for $16.5 million in damages Avast paid to settle allegations it deceived users about data privacy practices, the FTC said Monday.
FTC political appointees are prohibited from holding leadership roles in the American Bar Association, participating in ABA events or renewing ABA memberships, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced Feb. 14.
The FTC postponed its Feb. 25 workshop on digital platform features designed to keep kids and teens on their services longer and returning more frequently, the agency said Tuesday.
Comments are due March 17 on the FTC’s proposed settlement over allegations that GoDaddy misrepresented its data security practices for several years, the agency said in a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication Thursday.
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.