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12/19/2012
Posted by John M. Simpson
The Federal Trade Commission Wednesday announced amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule that will give parents more control over the information online services and websites can collect about their kids. It's the first change since COPPA was passed in 1998 and is meant to update the protections to a time...
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News Release
12/18/2012
Posted by Carmen Balber
WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Watchdog today called on the U.S. Department of Justice to take over the ongoing federal antitrust probe of Google after the company’s chairman in a news interview equated it with antitrust poster child Microsoft in the 1990s. The Federal Trade Commission appears ready to conclude its 20-month investigation...
Blog Post
12/4/2012
Posted by John M. Simpson
Joshua Wright, nominee to the Federal Trade Commission faced tough grilling before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday and his answers did nothing to change my view that he is a bad choice for the Commission.
In in a written statement about the hearing Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WVA) voiced his concerns this way:
"Our final nominee is...
News Release
12/4/2012
Posted by John M. Simpson
WASHNGTON, DC – President Obama’s newest Federal Trade Commission nominee, who is expected to pledge to recuse himself from matters involving Google because of financial conflicts of interest, has anti-regulatory views at odds with the agency’s consumer protection mission, said Consumer Watchdog today.
“Joshua...
News Story
12/4/2012
Posted by Mark Reback
Wright Said He'd Recuse Himself From Google Case
If the Senate clears his nomination for the Federal Trade Commission, Joshua Wright will sit out the agency's investigation into Google.
In response to some tough questioning Tuesday from several Senate Democrats on the Commerce Committee during his nomination hearing, Wright said he would...
News Story
12/4/2012
Posted by Mark Reback
A Republican nominee to the Federal Trade Commission who has written articles and conducted research funded indirectly by Google and other corporate interests pledged on Tuesday to recuse himself from matters involving the Internet firm for at least two years.
Joshua Wright, an economist and law professor at George Mason University, has indicated...
Blog Post
11/30/2012
Posted by Jamie Court
When you stare down a $220 billion corporation, it's hard not to blink. But if the Federal Trade Commission doesn't deliver on its ultimatum to Google that it settle its antitrust problems soon for real relief or face prosecution, then consumers will never get the open and unfettered online and mobile access to information they deserve....
News Release
11/29/2012
Posted by John M. Simpson
WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Watchdog today called on Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.VA) to oppose Joshua Wright’s Nomination to the Federal Trade Commission, saying, “We cannot imagine a nominee who is more ill suited to serve as a Commissioner.”
In a letter to Sen. Rockefeller, John M. Simpson, the...
Blog Post
11/29/2012
Posted by John M. Simpson
Should one company be able to control how you use the Internet and what you see?
Google -- with 70% of online search and 90% of mobile search markets -- is increasingly doing this. Evidence before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shows that Google skews its results towards its own services and commercial priorities, when consumers believe...
News Story
11/27/2012
Posted by Daniel Palay
Facebook has run into a fresh attack from privacy activists after the huge social network modified policies on how it manages users' data.
The changes unveiled last week ended Facebook's effort to allow users to vote on privacy policy, but also permits sharing of information with its newly acquired photo-sharing service, Instagram....
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