According to the terms of their settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the makers of Four Loko will have to label cans of their potent product with more alcohol information and make the lids resealable.
Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix by explaining that it doesn't violate any Federal Trade Commission regulations. That led us to ask what exactly the FTC does protect in the data collection department.
If it seems odd that a federal regulator was scooped by a sleep-deprived student, get used to it, because the federal government is often the last to know about digital invasions of your privacy.
The road to Facebook's IPO didn't get any smoother Thursday, when The Financial Times' April Dembowsky reported an impending Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company's Instagram purchase.
An impending settlement with the Federal Trade Commission will require all new Facebook privacy settings to be opt-in rather than opt-out and sentences the social network to 20 years of scrutiny from government regulators.
Not twelve lobbyists, but twelve firms! All in response to antitrust investigation
The Senate grilled Apple and Google this morning, but it could a lot more
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