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Samuel Levine

@saalevine
9 posts
2025-08-16
Under @linamkhan, @FTC fought to ban Meta from profiting off kids. Now, it looks like @AFergusonFTC wants to hand them a sweetheart deal. Makes sense — Meta has clearly cleaned up its act. [image]
2025-08-16 View on X
CNBC

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

Meta has clearly cleaned up its act. [image] Forums: r/technology : Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

2025-08-15
[Image: “Meta's twisted rules for AI chatbots allowed them to engage in ‘romantic or sensual’ chats with kids"] Under @linamkhan , @FTC fought to ban Meta from profiting off kids.  Now, it looks like @AFergusonFTC wants to hand them a sweetheart deal.  Makes sense — Meta has clearly cleaned up its act.
2025-08-15 View on X
Reuters

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 …

2025-02-02
Today caps a remarkable 6+ year run for Rohit Chopra. At @FTC he revived tools to deter lawbreaking, strengthen enforcement, and ban noncompetes. At @CFPB he fought junk fees, shoddy medical debt, and repeat offenders. Grateful to this extraordinary public servant and mentor 👏
2025-02-02 View on X
Associated Press

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.

2024-09-20
Two decades of unchecked surveillance has generated vast wealth for tech giants, while leaving Americans exposed to fraud, profiling, and more. Today's report sounds the alarm, and calls for an end to an era when tech giants were trusted to police themselves. Check it out:
2024-09-20 View on X
New York Times

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...

2024-06-03
Under Ben Wiseman's leadership, the FTC's Privacy Division is delivering win after win against unchecked commercial surveillance. Hear from him directly about our work on data brokers, AI, and more: https://therecord.media/...
2024-06-03 View on X
The Record

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 ...

2023-09-09
FTC staff won a major victory today as we work to hold TurboTax accountable for cheating taxpayers with deceptive “free” ads. All advertisers should be on notice that free means free, and that fine print disclosures can't cure flagrant deception. Read more ⬇️
2023-09-09 View on X
Bloomberg

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

2023-07-01
Some big news on deceptive reviews: https://www.ftc.gov/...
2023-07-01 View on X
The Verge

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...

2023-06-07
Today's action provides new privacy protections for young gamers, and makes clear that COPPA covers kids' biometric and health information. And with three COPPA actions over the last two weeks, it should be clear that @FTC is firing on all cylinders to protect children's privacy. https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-07 View on X
Reuters

Microsoft agrees to pay $20M to settle FTC charges over the company violating COPPA by collecting personal data from children without their parents' consent

Kanishka Singh / Reuters :

2023-06-06
Today's action provides new privacy protections for young gamers, and makes clear that COPPA covers kids' biometric and health information. And with three COPPA actions over the last two weeks, it should be clear that @FTC is firing on all cylinders to protect children's privacy. https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-06 View on X
Reuters

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 …