The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just charged that Premom, the fertility tracking app, shared hundreds of thousands of users’ information, unencrypted, with third parties. These include the ...
The FTC is racking up privacy settlements with technology companies in 2023. One was GoodRX, which used prescription data for ads without consent. Another was the fertility app Premom, which did ...
In addition, the FTC alleged that lax data policies at Amazon meant that the information could often be accessed by unauthorized parties — and often was, in the case of Ring doorbell footage.
full access to every customer video" before 2017 and failed to patch bugs in the system that allowed hackers to access cameras and scare consumers, the FTC's federal complaint says. "Not only ...
That same worker searched for cameras located in "intimate" spaces, such as "Master Bedroom," and spied for months, the FTC claims. Amazon settled with the FTC for $5.8 million, according to a ...
The FTC confirmed the settlement a short time later. News of the settlement was first reported by Reuters. The FTC said that Ring employees and contractors were able to view, download, and ...
True, it is that on March 10 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a solicitation seeking public comments on “provisions of franchise agreements and franchisor business practices.” ...
Additionally, the FTC is investigating whether company coordination affected sales more broadly, outside of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) formula-supply program. The Wall Street Journal ...
The settlement addresses a lawsuit filed by the FTC Wednesday accusing Ring of unlawfully deceiving its customers over the privacy of their data and the videos collected by its products.
Amazon will pay more than $30 million to settle two separate charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations of violating user privacy. Amazon’s Ring will pay $5.8 million to ...
WASHINGTON — Amazon will pay more than $30 million to settle alleged privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. The Federal Trade Commission voted to ...
In a report the FTC issued that day, it pointed out that there is “not enough competition” in both markets. It proposed that the government introduce new legislative measures to encourage ...
