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FTC Slaps Record Fine on Epic Games Over 'Dark Patterns'
Video game company Epic Games will pay a total of $520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children's privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases, federal...
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FTC: 'Manipulative' Amazon Tricked Millions Into Prime
The FTC isn't letting up on Amazon , alleging in a new lawsuit that the world's largest online retailer knowingly tricked "millions of consumers" into signing up for its paid Prime service, then made...
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FTC Wants a Steep Crackdown on Phony Online Reviews
The Federal Trade Commission says it wants to "level the playing field for honest companies" with a crackdown on fake online reviews. The FTC has proposed new rules that include heavy penalties for...
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Judge Rejects FTC Move to Halt $69B Microsoft-Activision Deal
A federal judge has handed Microsoft a major victory by declining to block its looming $69 billion takeover of video game company Activision Blizzard. US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said in...
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FTC Makes Its First Move Against ChatGPT
The FTC has gotten aggressive about the potential dangers of ChatGPT . The consumer agency has opened what the Washington Post describes as an "expansive" investigation into the artificial intelligence...
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Feds, States Bring Huge Monopoly Suit Against Amazon
The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the e-commerce behemoth uses its position in the marketplace to inflate prices...
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Her Academic Paper Set Stage for Epic Amazon Fight
The feds and 17 states are going after Amazon in a long-anticipated legal fight that could take years to play out. And for Federal Trade Commission chief Lina Khan, the fight is a long time coming. As...
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FTC: Beware of QR Code Scams
QR codes have become ubiquitous, especially since the pandemic, but the Federal Trade Commission says consumers shouldn't let their guard down. In a blog post , the FTC warns that scammers can use the...
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Rite Aid Banned From Using Facial Recognition Tech
Due to what the Federal Trade Commission calls Rite Aid's "reckless" use of facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores from 2012 to 2020, the drugstore chain is now prohibited from using it...
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