March 01, 2012
The White House’s new push for a voluntary code of conduct to implement its “privacy bill of rights,” giving consumers more control over their personal data, puts the FTC front and center as the federal government’s eyes and ears on whether companies are toeing the line.
March 01, 2012
The prediction that the CFPB and FTC would end up butting heads appears to be coming true.
March 01, 2012
UBS AG is stepping up as first in line among financial service firms to blow the whistle on alleged manipulation of interest rates in the securities market, seeking leniency from Swiss authorities,...
March 01, 2012
New York—Expectations for getting help from Washington were sky-high as a crowd filed into the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College in New York City on Feb. 22 to participate in a “town hall” to air...
March 01, 2012
The Federal Trade Commission is taking the judicial decision that has permitted a Georgia hospital to buy its only competitor, creating a monopoly, to the Supreme Court.
March 01, 2012
Google’s new policy allowing it to create more comprehensive profiles of its users by following their activities across all of the company’s platforms went into effect March 1, but it has gotten...
March 01, 2012
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.) is a persistent man. On Feb. 28, he introduced an amendment to the Senate Sur face Transportation Bill to permit the Department of Justice to sue the Organization of...
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