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Have you fallen victim to a cryptojacking website? If so, here's how to tell the FTC.

How Will the Decision Affect the Agency's Data Security Enforcement Activities?What impact will an appellate court's ruling Wednesday that vacated the Federal Trade Commission's data security...

Appellate Court Throws Out Enforcement Action in Dispute Dating Back to 2013LabMD, a now-defunct cancer testing laboratory, has won a major victory in its longstanding legal dispute with the...

These are the phones that were calling home to Shanghai every 72 hours, with no opt-in or notice, to hand over a whole lot of PII.

Florida-based phone maker BLU is facing an FTC complaint over allegations it shared detailed personal user data with a third-party firm that included full text messages, call logs and contact lists.

Mobile phone maker BLU Products this week reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that software in its devices collected users’ personal information. read more

Company Must Submit More Audit Reports, Keep Bug Bounty RecordsUber has agreed to stricter monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission following its concealment of a 2016 data breach while it...

A US consumer protection agency said Monday it has opened an investigation into Facebook's privacy practices, another blow to the social network, which is struggling to deal with a growing crisis...

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced it is launching an investigation into Facebook’s data privacy practices

Punitive Data Breach Legislation Proposed Post-Equifax read more