Tag Archives: FTC

Business exclusive By Thomas Barrabi Published Jan. 8, 2024, 4:55 p.m. ET Emails obtained by The Post reveal Federal Trade Commission nominee Melissa Holyoak’s chummy rapport with ex-colleagues at a Google-funded think tank – including one who wrote of the FTC that “burning it to the ground is too good for it.” Holyoak, the Republican solicitor general of Utah, previously spent five years as an attorney for the Competitive… Source link

The Federal Trade Commission has slapped prescription drug discount app GoodRx with a $1.5 million fine for the unauthorized disclosure of customers’ identifiable health information with third parties, such as Facebook and Google. This is the first time the agency has taken enforcement action under its Health Breach Notification Rule, which requires vendors of personal health records to notify customers if their data has been breached. While the rule has applied to companies handling health… Source link

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and seven U.S. states sued Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and iHeartMedia Inc (IHRT.O) on Monday over alleged deceptive ads promoting Google’s Pixel 4 smartphone in 2019 and 2020, the FTC said. “The Federal Trade Commission and seven state attorneys general sued Google LLC and iHeartMedia, Inc. today for airing nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google’s… Source link

The Federal Trade Commission and seven state attorneys general sued Google LLC and iHeartMedia, Inc. today for airing nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google’s Pixel 4 phone in 2019 and 2020. Today’s proposed FTC orders and the state judgments settling the allegations bar Google and iHeartMedia from similar misrepresentations, and the state judgments also require them to pay $9.4 million in penalties. “Google and… Source link

The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general announced lawsuits against Google LLC and iHeartMedia, Inc. for airing nearly 29,000 deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google’s Pixel 4 phone in 2019 and 2020. The proposed FTC orders and the state judgments settling the allegations bar Google and iHeartMedia from similar misrepresentations, and the state judgments also require them to pay $9.4 million in penalties. “Google… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. App Annie says global spending across iOS and Google Play is up to $135 billion in 2021, and that figure will likely be higher when its… Source link

The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against TurboTax creator Intuit (INTU) this week, claiming its deceptive “free tax filing” ads are misleading American taxpayers. The consumer protection agency alleged that Intuit’s advertising practices purposely guided consumers to seek out free filing services on TurboTax that weren’t actually available to them. Instead, they were steered to the company’s paid products. With tax day barely a month away, the FTC has also filed a federal… Source link

The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it is investigating the causes behind ongoing supply chain disruptions and how they are “causing serious and ongoing hardships for consumers and harming competition in the U.S. economy.” The FTC said it is ordering Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, other large wholesalers and suppliers including Procter & Gamble Co., Tyson Foods and Kraft Heinz Co. “to turn over information to help study causes of empty shelves and sky-high prices.” Orders also are… Source link

The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has refiled a claim in federal court alleging that Facebook (FB) is breaking antitrust laws, buy running an illegal “buy-or-bury” scheme. “Facebook has maintained its monopoly position in significant part by pursuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s strategy, expressed in 2008: ‘it is better to buy than compete,'” the agency wrote in its Source link

Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) seek to determine whether Google Play violated Section 5 of the FTC Act. “New research suggests that Google misleadingly markets children’s apps as compliant with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) despite evidence that many of those apps illegally track children’s behavior and share their personal information without consent,” Markey and Castor wrote in the joint letter. “The FTC must use its full… Source link