FTC guidance provides information and warnings on how the new rule applies to review suppressions, company-controlled review sites, false indicators of social media influence, and other possibly ...

Bureau Director Sam Levine said the cases together represent “a huge step forward for consumer privacy” and a “paradigm shift” for how the FTC enforces ... on social media did not ...

Experts say it is scary how much personal information is being tracked online, especially when it comes to kids, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission.

Company-Controlled Review Websites: The final rule prohibits a business from misrepresenting that a website or entity it controls provides independent ... Misuse of Fake Social Media Indicators: The ...

The election of Donald Trump is likely to have a significant impact on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) approach to privacy, data security, and other technology-related aspects of ...

Watchdog group Public Citizen has requested the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigate whether Dr. Mehmet Oz is violating social media promotion policies for not fully disclosing his connections ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the consumer ...

FTC ensures fair competition and protects ... example for other cases to follow. The Facebook privacy case rewrote the rulebook for social media services and online interaction in general.

represents a bipartisan effort to curtail Meta’s monopoly power and restore competition to ensure freedom and innovation in the social media ecosystem,” FTC spokesperson Douglas Farrar said in ...