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Facebook Puts Support Behind Data Movability Law Before FTC Meeting

Facebook Puts Support Behind Data Movability Law Before FTC Meeting
Facebook Puts Support Behind Data Movability Law Before FTC Meeting
August 21, 2020  |  Legal & Regulation

Amid an approaching Federal Trade Commission (FTC) meeting, Facebook has advocated for rules that make it simpler for users to move media to a competing...

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FTC Warns Taxpayers About Stimulus Fraud
FTC Warns Taxpayers About Stimulus Fraud
August 11, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Congress has yet to agree on the next round of stimulus funding, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is already warning the public to beware....

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Prosecutors Target Loosely-Regulated Business Lending Sector
Prosecutors Target Loosely-Regulated Business Lending Sector
August 11, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Federal and state authorities are targeting companies that allegedly lend money to small businesses at extreme rates and seek to collect payments with heavy-handed tactics,...

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Report: Companies Say Amazon Accessed Proprietary Info To Make Its Own Products
Report: Companies Say Amazon Accessed Proprietary Info To Make Its Own Products
July 26, 2020  |  Amazon

Daniela Braga, founder and CEO of DefinedCrowd Corp., a data platform for artificial intelligence (AI), has a beef with Amazon Inc., The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)...

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Feds Eye Payments Processors, Phony Websites Over Fraud
Feds Eye Payments Processors, Phony Websites Over Fraud
July 22, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are cracking down on scams known as credit card laundering or transaction laundering,...

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FTC Provides Testimony On Anti-Fraud Efforts Amid Pandemic
FTC Provides Testimony On Anti-Fraud Efforts Amid Pandemic
July 21, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) testified before the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade and Consumer Protection on Tuesday (July 21), detailing its efforts to...

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FTC Presses For Testimony From Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Sandberg
FTC Presses For Testimony From Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Sandberg
July 17, 2020  |  ANTITRUST

Facebook Inc’s top executives could be required to testify before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the regulator investigates whether the California-based social media conglomerate...

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Pandemic Scammers Robbed US Consumers Of More Than $77M
Pandemic Scammers Robbed US Consumers Of More Than $77M
July 07, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Americans have lost more than $77 million in COVID-19 fraud since the start of the year, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Get the Full...

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