The FTC launched an investigation into Facebook (and settled) over deceptive privacy declarations in 2011.2. The Cambridge Analytica scandal involved harvesting Facebook data on over 87 million ...

Cambridge Analytica used an algorithm to trawl ... There is some pushback to this infiltration — the FTC is seeking to regulate how businesses use algorithms, but they've yet to do so meaningfully.

Meta Platforms Inc.'s leaders appear to have steered it into a record $1.3 billion EU fine by failing to clean up the data ...

They were then cut off from their FTC email addresses, asked to return electronic devices, and denied access to their offices. There are legal restrictions on the president's authority to remove ...

Two Federal Trade Commission (FTC) members fired by President Trump sued him Thursday, setting up another major test of his administration’s expansionist view of presidential authority over ...

Two Federal Trade Commission (FTC) members fired by President Trump sued him Thursday, setting up another major test of his administration’s expansionist view of presidential authority over ...

"We are trying to vindicate the law that Congress passed, that has been in place for over a century to protect accountability and transparency at the FTC," Slaughter told ABC News. "To make sure ...

In the email, President Donald Trump said their “continued service on the FTC is inconsistent with my Administration’s priorities,” according to the lawsuit.A Supreme Court ruling from 1935 ...

Two days after he was fired by President Donald Trump, Democratic FTC commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said Thursday morning that his and fellow commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter’s firings open the ...

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