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Facebook is on the verge of introducing a new privacy policy which will let the social network analyze the profile pictures of the users. However, several consumer rights groups have launched legal action against such an update, due to which Facebook has to delay the changes.

Young internet users are often a vulnerable target for hackers and the likes when they use internet without parental oversight. To mitigate the dangers posed to them, Federal Trade Commission has now amended the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act so that parents get to have greater control over the online information of their kids.

It has long been alleged that Google uses its influence on the web to promote its own products and play down the offerings of its rivals. When Federal Trade Commission is already investigating such allegations against Google, DuckDuckGo says that the former has deliberately tried to hurt the latter through different tactics.

Federal Trade Commission has been pursuing an antitrust investigation against Google rather hot-headedly. We recently reported that the commission was gearing up to launch a formal case against the search giant. However, it seems that there are ardent Google supporters in the U.S. Congress. A Congressman has sent a letter to FTC, warning it over…

Federal Trade Commission has been after Google for quite a while. The agency is focused on the allegations that Google is using its influence in the online search arena to push forth its other products and services which harms other competitors in the market. Google has been reluctant in giving any concessions on that front and now, FTC has started…

Digital security has become a critically important matter for most PC users around the globe. Given the sheer number of malware and other hacking tools used, it is pertinent that the computers be guarded against nefarious intrusions. However, a woman named Kristy Ross, decided to cash on this sentiment by selling a fake security software, for which…

What would be your reaction if you find out that your laptop is secretly capturing your private life, even of your sexual encounters, and sending those to some remote servers? That would be the worse nightmare ever. But, that might have already occurred in your life. On September 25, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had reached to a…

Facebook has been in the eye of the storm of late. The company has gone public on last May and its stock has been taking a nose-dive since then. The social networking giant has been criticized continually from multiple quarters for the compromises it has made to excel monetarily. Now, a new report from FTC suggests another such shady scheme by the…

Twitter has officially supported Do Not Track option which is promoted by The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Mozilla. Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. It request websites visited by DNT enabled users not to track them over the web. By officially supporting DNT, Twitter has…

Google has been lambasted for violating Safari's privacy settings to install tracking cookies on user's machines. This was done without the knowledge of explicit permission of the users and naturally, was tantamount to violation of privacy rights. The case was brought into limelight when one such user decided to sue Google.