Both the United States and European Union have been actively pursuing new regulations and legislation related to consumer privacy issues, data breach and data security, as well as investigations into competitive pricing and antitrust concerns. Consumer privacy regulations have also expanded in Latin America and Asia-Pacific over recent years. The Fraud Practice provides a summary of
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The Federal Trade Commission has accused the social networking website Myspace of providing user data to third parties without user consent while Google will likely receive the first ever FTC fine for Internet privacy violations after planting cookies that bypassed Apple’s Safari web browser’s privacy settings. Read More
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) tallied over 1.8 million consumer complaints in 2011 of which 15 percent were about identity theft, making this the leading consumer complaint for the twelfth straight year. Read More
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that they will be holding a workshop on April 26 to discuss a number of issues pertaining to mobile payments. The workshop, held in Washington, D.C., will be open to the public and the FTC is now accepting public comment. Read More
