Lawyers

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  FTC Proposes New Limits in Children's Online Protection Privacy Act to Restrict Tracking, Push Notifications

  Get informed about how the FTC is stepping up to protect your children's online privacy. Read about the latest changes proposed in COPPA to limit tracking and push notifications. Stay ahead with us.

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  US Federal Court Overrules Meta in FTC Privacy Battle

  Discover the latest twist in Meta's privacy battle: US Federal Court sides with the FTC. Learn how this could reshape digital advertising! Read now.

• Buying Consumers’ Web Browsing History From ISPs, Advertisers Are Now Free From Privacy Rules

  The recently introduced Congressional Review Act resolutions would overturn the Federal Communications Commission's privacy rules for Internet service providers and advertisers.

• Qualcomm Faces FTC Lawsuit For Forcing Apple Into Exclusive Chip Deal

  Qualcomm is under fire in yet another lawsuit for monopolizing the market and extracting high revenue from weakened competition.

• Volkswagen plans to increase monetary fund intended for Dieselgate scandal

  German automaker Volkswagen is now planning on increasing the budget it had intended for the the Dieselgate scandal. The company is exerting all efforts in order to avoid any court trial as well as bringing back its old glory.

• U.S. DOJ and FTC Urges To Preserve Competition Between Defense Contractors

  In order to preserve a healthy competition between contractors, the U.S. regulators, namely The Justice Department (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), have joined forces in urging a powerful message towards weapon makers.

• Federal Trade Commission settled cases against General Motors, 2 other car dealers

  General Motors along with two other car dealers are being sanctioned by the FTC regarding their actions and complaints.

• Albertsons to pay Haggen $5.75M to settle billion-dollar lawsuit

  Albertsons agreed to pay $5.75 million to settle a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by grocery retailer Haggen over the sale of 146 stores that eventually led Haggen into bankruptcy.

• FTC offers first-ever guidance on 'unfair competition'

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday released unprecedented guidance on a section of business antitrust law that bars "unfair competition," but stopped well short of offering the level of detail long sought by businesses.

• Sysco not in talks to settle U.S. lawsuit to stop merger: lawyer

  Sysco Corp (SYY.N) is not holding settlement talks with the U.S. government to resolve a lawsuit aimed at stopping a $3.5 billion merger of the food distributor and its largest rival, a lawyer for Sysco said on Friday.

• Online payday lenders in $21 million accord with U.S. regulators

  Two online payday lending companies linked to a professional racecar driver have agreed to pay a record $21 million to resolve charges by U.S. regulators that they engaged in deceptive practices, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday.

• 20 states join U.S. antitrust probe of Family Dollar merger

  Some 20 state attorneys general have joined the federal antitrust investigation of competing bids by Dollar General Corp (DG.N) and Dollar Tree Inc (DLTR.O) to buy Family Dollar Stores Inc (FDO.N), a development that potentially complicates the companies' efforts to win U.S. approval for a deal.

• Antitrust regulators face clashing missions in U.S. cigarette deal

  Cigarette maker Reynolds American's (RAI.N) proposal to buy smaller rival Lorillard Inc (LO.N) presents antitrust regulators with a conundrum: Their mandate is to prevent higher prices because of mergers, but U.S. public policy aims to make cigarettes more expensive to discourage smoking.

• U.S. sues AT&T over alleged 'data throttling' on phone plans`

  The U.S. government sued AT&T Inc (T.N) on Tuesday, alleging the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier sold consumers unlimited data plans but would reduce their Internet speeds once they exceeded a certain amount of data.

• U.S. Senators seek antitrust scrutiny of Sysco deal to buy U.S. Foods

  The top two lawmakers on the Senate's antitrust panel have urged regulators to scrutinize food distributor Sysco Corp's planned purchase of rival U.S. Foods for $3.5 billion.

• Privacy company files FTC complaint against Facebook over newsfeed manipulation

  In the organization's response to Facebook's purported data manipulation, EPIC has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission over the 2012 study, the Wire reported. According to EPIC, Facebook have violated privacy laws when it had conducted the experiment without the consent of its users

• Regulator suggests transparency laws for brokers to combat data misuse by brokers

  The Federal Trade Commission yesterday recommended in a report that lawmakers should consider enacting measures that would allow consumers to have access to information obtained by data brokers, Bloomberg said.

• Appeals court spares Facebook from privacy claims

  Facebook Inc won a small victory today in court yesterday when the US Court of Appeals in San Francisco decided to dismiss the claims made by its users that the social network has violated its own user agreement on privacy, Bloomberg reported.

• Herbalife under investigation by FTC over business model

  Despite Herbalife Ltd's surprise about the probe opened by the Federal Trade Commission over the former's business model, the nutrition company believes that this will be an effective way to reject allegations that the company is operating a pyramid scheme.