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FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens
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A new Federal Trade Commission staff report that examines the data collection and use practices of major social media and video streaming services shows they engaged in vast surveillance of consumers...
Shanahan v. IXL Learning, Inc.
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Citation Number
3:24-cv-02724
Federal Court
Northern District of California
Brief of the Federal Trade Commission addressing the question of whether the COPPA statute or the COPPA rule authorizes schools to consent to arbitration on behalf of parents.
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Text of the Amicus Brief for the FTC
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FTC Investigation Leads to Lawsuit Against TikTok and ByteDance for Flagrantly Violating Children’s Privacy Law
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On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice sued video-sharing platform TikTok, its parent company ByteDance, as well as its affiliated companies, with flagrantly violating a...
FTC Order Will Ban NGL Labs and its Founders from Offering Anonymous Messaging Apps to Kids Under 18 and Halt Deceptive Claims Around AI Content Moderation
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office are taking action against NGL Labs, LLC and two of its co-founders, Raj Vir and Joao Figueiredo, for a host of law...
FTC Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report
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Following Public Service Recognition Week, the Federal Trade Commission released its Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report outlining the agency’s work to protect consumers and promote competition. “The FTC...
FTC Denies Application for New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA
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The Federal Trade Commission has denied an application, without prejudice, by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Yoti, and SuperAwesome for Commission approval of a new mechanism for obtaining...
FTC Releases 2023 Privacy and Data Security Update
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The Federal Trade Commission released its Privacy and Data Security Update for 2023 that highlights the FTC’s work to protect consumer privacy and respond to the evolving ways that companies use...
FTC Extends Deadline by 60 days for Commission Decision on ESRB Application for New Consent Mechanism Under COPPA
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The Federal Trade Commission has extended by 60 days the deadline for it to determine whether to approve an application from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and others for a new...
FTC Announces Tentative Agenda for January 18 Open Commission Meeting
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Today, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan announced that an open meeting of the Commission will be held virtually on Thursday, January 18, 2024. The open meeting will commence at 11 a.m. ET...
Epic Games, In the Matter of
Type of Action
Administrative
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
1923203
Case Status
Pending
FTC Proposes Strengthening Children’s Privacy Rule to Further Limit Companies’ Ability to Monetize Children’s Data
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The Federal Trade Commission has proposed changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule) that would place new restrictions on the use and disclosure of children’s personal...
In Comment Submitted to U.S. Copyright Office, FTC Raises AI-related Competition and Consumer Protection Issues, Stressing That It Will Use Its Authority to Protect Competition and Consumers in AI Markets
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In a comment submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office, the Federal Trade Commission identifies several issues raised by the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that implicate...
FTC Extends Deadline for Commission Decision on ESRB Application for New Consent Mechanism Under COPPA
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The Federal Trade Commission has extended by 120 days the deadline for it to consider whether to approve an application from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and others for a new...
Edmodo, LLC, U.S. v.
The FTC obtained an order against education technology provider Edmodo for collecting personal data from children without obtaining their parent’s consent and using that data for advertising, in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule), and for unlawfully outsourcing its COPPA compliance responsibilities to schools.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
202 3129
Case Status
Pending
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