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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- March 22 2010
FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour stated that Google, Facebook, and other major U.S. companies need to “step up” their privacy protection efforts or face tougher penalties from the FTC
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- August 23 2010
A South Carolina court of appeals has held that a defendant's unauthorized access of e-mails on a Yahoo! account server violated the Stored Communications Act (SCA
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- July 19 2010
Australian Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis has concluded that Google's efforts to improve its location-based services through the collection of Wi-Fi information "would have breached the Australian Privacy Act."
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- November 15 2010
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau announced last week that it is investigating Google, Inc., regarding the collection of data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks by its Street View vehicles
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
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- Germany, USA
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- May 24 2010
Authorities in both the United States and Germany are poised to begin inquiries into Google's collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars, which were deployed to take street-level photos and collect basic Wi-Fi information, such as the SSIDs and MAC addresses of WiFi routers
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
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- Italy, USA
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- March 31 2010
A court in Italy has convicted three Google executives of charges that they violated Italian law by allowing a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied to be posted online
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- March 31 2010
On February 24, 2010, the FTC issued a report on the Top Consumer Complaints of 2009
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- March 29 2010
The FTC announced that it has launched a review of, and is inviting public comment on, its rules implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- May 31 2010
The FTC has decided not to challenge Google's acquisition of mobile advertising network company Admob, determining that the acquisition was unlikely to harm competition in the marketplace
Telecom privacy news
- Arent Fox LLP
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- USA
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- May 31 2010
Younger users of social networking sites, when compared to older users of those same sites, are more likely to try to limit how much information about them is made available publicly, according to a new survey released today by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project
