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Since the charges are civil and not criminal, all five defendants remain free, according to the FTC. "The FTC has established a likelihood of success in showing that defendants have deceived consumers by misrepresenting the services they offer, thus inducing consumers to pay money or divulge personal information under false pretenses," according to the U.S. Court for the Southern District of Florida, which issued the order authorizing shuttering of the sites. Over the years, the FTC has closed down other websites that falsely claimed to offer government services.
December 2019: the FTC sued a VoIP service provider in FTC v. Educare, where it alleged that defendant Globex Telecom Inc. facilitated a bunch of telemarketers allegedly selling sham credit card interest rate reduction services. Three VoIPs allegedly provided autodialers used to place billions of illegal robocalls, as well as allegedly supplying the technology used by robocallers in at least eight prior FTC cases.
Six months after Facebook agreed to a landmark privacy settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that included a record $5 billion fine, a federal judge is still considering objections from advocacy groups that claim the deal doesn't go far enough. Judge Timothy J. Kelly has given Facebook and the FTC until Jan. 24 to respond to objections raised by several privacy and consumer advocacy groups, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which raised concerns about whether the settlement does enough to protect users' data and address privacy concerns, according to court documents filed in the case.
Thinking of giving a young person an internet-connected ‘smart’ toy this Christmas? You may want to think again.
Delete the data, and don't do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
MIA: Checks on Voter Microtargeting and Nation-State Information OperationsThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sanctioned data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica for misusing Facebook users'...
Backend operation services provider InfoTrax Systems has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over a data breach discovered in 2016, the agency announced this week. read more
From hacking hotel room robots to crackdowns on stalkerware apps, Threatpost editors break down this week's top news stories.
Lawmakers Ask FTC to Investigate Whether Amazon Broke Federal LawDemocratic lawmakers are urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation into whether Amazon violated federal law...
It's the first time we've gone after a stalking app, the FTC said. In this case, that would be a stalking app that got breached - twice.