sleazy business practices FTC says "click to subscribe, call to cancel" is illegal Mark Frauenfelder

robocalls FCC fines Texas robocallers record $225m Rob Beschizza

ftc FTC probing Twitter's use of sensitive data for ad targeting Xeni Jardin

vestager Bill Gates just accidentally proved that even "unsuccessful" antitrust enforcement works Cory Doctorow

ads inc A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow

oh please don't throw me in that briar patch Facebook's $5B FTC fine was so laughable its stock price went UP after the announcement Cory Doctorow

zucked Facebook execs are worried that Zuck's emails show he never took his FTC privacy obligations seriously Cory Doctorow

consent decrees What the FTC should do AFTER it fines Facebook $3-5B Cory Doctorow

zuck Facebook expects up to $5 billion FTC fine over privacy Xeni Jardin

robocalling FTC fines four robocallers behind "billions" of US calls Xeni Jardin

electronic frontier foundation EFF's roadmap for a 21st Century antitrust doctrine Cory Doctorow

douyi FTC fines app TikTok/Musical.ly $5.7 million for child data privacy violations Xeni Jardin

Andrew Smith Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook Cory Doctorow

puffery Wells Fargo: We can't be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying Cory Doctorow

moral hazard All the economists who told the FTC we shouldn't break up Big Tech are paid by Big Tech Cory Doctorow

Bullshit for-profit schools Government seizes fraudulent military recruitment sites Séamus Bellamy

ma bell got the ill communication AT&T to the Supreme Court: "Fuck the FTC" Cory Doctorow

ftc Thinking through the "What should we do about Facebook?" question Cory Doctorow

mattress tags for everything FTC orders manufacturers to cut it out with the unenforceable "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers Cory Doctorow

coverup lies fine print Vtech covered up a leak of data on 6.3m children and their families, then tried to force us not to sue – the FTC just fined them $0.09/kid Cory Doctorow