EU charges Apple over NFC payment restrictions on iOS devices Matt Brian @m4tt As the European Commission continues to look into whether Apple has abused its market dominance by restricting mobile payments on iOS devices, Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager today confirmed that it has formally charged the iPhone maker, which could result in a … Continue reading FTC orders Mastercard to open debit transactions to competing payment networks
FTC Releases New Advertising Compliance Guidance For Health Care Products by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, December 21, 2022 The FTC has released new guidance in a 40-page document to update and replace Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry, issued in 1998. The document provides guidance to help ensure that claims about the benefits and safety … Continue reading FTC Releases New Advertising Compliance Guidance For Health Care Products
IAB And Others Want Supreme Court To Strike Down Florida Social Media Bill by Wendy Davis , Staff Writer @wendyndavis, November 23, 2022 Florida’s social media law threatens “severe harm” to social media companies as well as their users, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and other organizations are telling the Supreme Court. The bill is “designed to … Continue reading IAB And Others Want Supreme Court To Strike Down Florida Social Media Bill
IAB: Why Original Content Creation Is Outpacing TV Production Investment by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, October 11, 2022 Privacy implications, the creator economy, augmented reality and shopping in the metaverse are all part of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s report released Tuesday, which explains the changes the industry will experience in the next few years. Original content … Continue reading IAB: Why Original Content Creation Is Outpacing TV Production Investment
FTC Wants Platforms To Crack Down On Fake Reviews by Wendy Davis , Staff Writer @wendyndavis, September 15, 2022 The Federal Trade Commission has tried to curb fake reviews online since at least 2009, when it issued guidance stating that people who posted endorsements should disclose any relationship with the company being reviewed. In subsequent years, … Continue reading FTC Wants Platforms To Crack Down On Fake Reviews
By Alex Pasternack September 08, 2022 Who gets to know where you are? The question is at the heart of a new lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission against a little-known Idaho-based ad tech company, Kochava, which regulators accuse of unfairly selling the timestamped location information of millions of Americans. But before government … Continue reading A showdown between an ad tech firm and the FTC will test the limits of U.S. privacy law
Self-Regulatory Group Raises Concerns Over FTC’s Privacy Initiative by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, September 7, 2022 The self-regulatory organization Network Advertising Initiative is raising concerns that the Federal Trade Commission’s recent move toward regulating data collection may reflect a bias against targeted advertising. “The FTC should commit to a process that explores and documents the benefits … Continue reading Self-Regulatory Group Raises Concerns Over FTC’s Privacy Initiative
Trump’s Truth Social reportedly lost two critical executives The departures came shortly after the app’s iOS launch. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic Dado Ruvic / reuters Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social may have lost its best chance at success. According to Reuters, two executives seen as critical to the platform’s success, chief technology officer Josh … Continue reading Following Mar-a-Lago raid, lawmakers want information from platforms on threats against law enforcement
Ad Industry Prepares To Fight Potential FTC Privacy Rules by Wendy Davis , Staff Writer @wendyndavis, August 11, 2022 Almost one year ago, the watchdog Accountable Tech urged the Federal Trade Commission to issue rules that could outlaw “surveillance advertising,” loosely defined as serving ads to people based on their activities across websites and apps. On … Continue reading Ad Industry Prepares To Fight Potential FTC Privacy Rules
FEC Gives Google Green Light To Let Political Campaigns Evade Gmail Spam Filters by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 12, 2022 A four-to-one vote by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) approved an advisory opinion on Google’s proposed pilot program for the 2022 elections that would keep campaign emails out of users’ spam folders. More than 1.5 … Continue reading FEC Gives Google Green Light To Let Political Campaigns Evade Gmail Spam Filters
