July 29, 2016
Even as software industry advocates, corporate lawyers and US officials quickly embraced the new deal governing the transfer of data across the Atlantic — called Privacy Shield — consumer activists were just as quick to condemn it and to predict a challenge that will force another do-over.
July 29, 2016
The Justice Department’s bold decision to challenge both Aetna’s proposed merger with Humana and Anthem’s proposed deal for Cigna is the latest evidence that the antitrust watchdogs’ bark is backed...
July 29, 2016
Medical testing company LabMD’s computer data security practices lacked “even basic precautions” to protect sensitive consumer information maintained on its systems, the Federal Trade Commission...
July 29, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission wants information about DirecTV’s advertising campaigns dating as far back as 2007, and the agency has been fighting in federal court to get it.
July 29, 2016
The Federal Trade Commission is finding itself at the other end of a second request.
July 29, 2016
At a key point in the film Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman scramble to catch the last train out of Paris before the advancing Germans close off the city. Something similar is going...
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