Federal Trade Commission
Warning!!!! Your pop-up ads may be fraudulent!!! FTC wins $163m settlement against scareware firm
A US federal court has imposed a judgment of more than $163 million against a defendant in a case that pitted the US Federal Trade Commission against purveyors of so-called "scareware" programs designed to trick Internet users into believing their computer is infected.
Google staffs up 'Red Team' to protect the world from its privacy lapses
Is the job listing for a Data Privacy Engineer proof that Google's mending its privacy ways, or is the gesture as empty as the HTML form it used to slip past Safari's no-tracking controls?
EPIC sues FTC over Google's planned privacy changes
The Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to compel the agency to stop Google's planned privacy changes.









