Enlarge / Cricut is neither the first nor last internet-connected device to alter the deal after the fact and tell you to pray it doesn’t alter it further. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Lucasfilm) Yet another company that makes Internet-connected devices is drawing the wrath of customers by demanding a monthly subscription fee long after users […]
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White House reportedly plans to name Amazon foe Lina Khan to FTC
Enlarge / Lina Khan, as photographed for a 2017 profile in The Washington Post. (credit: An Rong Xu | The Washington Post | Getty Images) US President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to nominate antitrust scholar Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, a move that would indicate his administration is open to aggressive antitrust […]
FTC kicks off Crossing Solitude probe of nine Important Social Networking Companies
Even the Federal Trade Commission is stepping up its electronic solitude work, and it has asked only about every significant social networking platform you can imagine to describe what personal information it collects from customers, and the reason why. The requests for information went {} to nine programs (or their parent firms, where relevant ), […]
FTC Split on how Best to sue Facebook for antitrust Offenses, and reports Discover
Expand / / All Facebook, whichever way you appear. (charge: Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images) After a year spent exploring Facebook, state and national regulators are {} to begin {} a record of instances contrary to Facebook, fresh reports state –which is, whenever the agencies may agree on the way they really wish […]