Senator Josh Hawley says he will investigate Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Meta to produce docs by September 19
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Sen. Josh Hawley calls for a congressional probe into Meta after a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids; Sen. Marsha Blackburn backs a probe
Two Republican U.S. senators called for a congressional investigation into Meta Platforms (META.O) on Thursday …
Donald Trump fires Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, one of the more important regulators and holdovers from the Biden administration
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover.
A US FTC report on the data practices of Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and six other companies finds “vast surveillance” of consumers to monetize their information
and the ingestion of personal information—to power their services - Companies generally fed extensive amts of personal info into their automated systems /10 [image] Jon von Tetzchn...
Q&A with FTC Privacy and Identity Protection executive Ben Wiseman on proposed commercial surveillance rules, connected car industry's data practices, and more
Suzanne Smalley / The Record : X: @montezumachavez , @mario_gug , @saalevine , and @therecord_media X: Luis Montezuma / @montezumachavez : RFN: What lessons have you learned from ...
An FTC judge rules that Intuit misled consumers with its ads claiming that TurboTax is free when most customers need to pay to use the tax preparation software
- Judge orders company to stop advertising TurboTax as free — Intuit to appeal ‘flawed and highly questionable’ decision
The FTC proposes penalizing companies for shady review practices, including fining companies buying fake reviews up to $50K for each time a customer sees one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Twitter: Jess Miers / @jess_miers : ICYMI: The FTC is cracking down on fake reviews, teeing up yet another #Section230 conflict. https://www.was...
Microsoft agrees to pay $20M to settle FTC charges over the company violating COPPA by collecting personal data from children without their parents' consent
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Microsoft agrees to pay $20M to settle FTC charges that the company violated COPPA by collecting personal data from children without their parents' consent
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will pay $20 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges that the tech company illegally collected …