The Federal Trade Commission banned businesses from writing and buying their own reviews in an August ruling. Now, it's ...

Hackers for months scooped up call logs, unencrypted texts and some audio in breach, allowing them to pierce America’s ...

Americans shouldn’t accept a reality where their phones are sleeper agents for stalkers and fundamentalist politicians.

The FTC alleged that social media companies have engaged in "vast surveillance" and privacy violations. In a 2023 lawsuit, ...

“Fake reviews not only waste people’s time and money, but also pollute the marketplace and divert business away from honest competitors,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said about the rule in August. She added ...

An FTC rule banning phony online reviews is now in effect. Those who violate the measures face a civil penalty of up to ...

The FTC warned Lyft in October 2021 that its practices were illegal, and it must stop — but it continued them, and the result is this order and penalty. Of course, $2.1 million is a drop in the ...

However a new FTC ruling that just went into effect might’ve taken the teeth out of review bombing’s bite. The ruling is specifically attacking fake reviews, meaning it intends to incentivize ...

The social media platform backed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey now has more than 13m users. Bluesky, one of the main social media alternatives to X, has bagged $15m in Series A financing.

The FTC has come down hard on hotel chain Marriott following a series of data breaches between 2014 and 2020 that harmed more than 344 million customers worldwide. In an Oct. 9 news release ...

OpenAI has hired Uber's chief ethics and compliance officer, Scott Schools, as its first compliance chief, the burgeoning AI startup announced late Tuesday. In a statement OpenAI posted on its ...