Apitor collected data without informing parents or asking for permission, the FTC said, violating federal parental consent requirements. (Image Source: Apitor Technology)
Attendees walk by the Epic Games booth at the 2019 GDC Game Developers Conference on March 20, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 15: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson testifies before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Chair Ferguson cited the E.U.’s Digital Service Act and the U.K.’s Online Safety Act as statutes that incentivize U.S. tech companies “to censor speech, including speech outside…
A district appeals court ruled that the FCC “correctly determined” that telecoms had a duty to protect customer location data that was sold and later misused by…
The rules, introduced during the Biden administration, would force telecoms to notify customers when their personally identifiable information is exposed in a hack.
This photo taken on March 23, 2022 shows the mobile messaging and call service Telegram logo and U.S. instant messaging software Whatsapp logo on a smartphone screen in Moscow. (Photo by AFP)
Cloudflare said it received complaints from customers about Perplexity using stealthy tactics to evade network blocks against systematic browsing and scraping of web pages.
SOLVANG, CA – DECEMBER 2: Tourists flock to this Danish-themed town to view the colorful lights of the Christmas holiday season and to dine on aebleskivers, ice cream, and baked goods as viewed on December 2, 2023, in Solvang, California. Following the notoriety from the Academy Award-winning film Sideways, this buccolic farming region north of Santa Barbara has become a popular Wine Country stop for global and domestic tourists traveling between San Francisco and Los Angeles. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
Researchers in California contacted data brokers in their state to exercise their rights under the California Privacy Protection Act. Many didn’t reply, while others threw up barriers.