This week the Federal Trade Commission published a report focused on privacy and security issues related to the massive Internet of Things (IoT) trend, which includes the growing number of connected ...

The US Federal Trade Commission plans to study the harms to children and others of AI-powered chatbots like those offered by OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc., according to people ...

On Jan. 16, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced long-awaited and significant updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, the ...

Privacy advocates urge the FTC to block Meta’s plan to use chatbot conversations for "tailoring" content and ads served ...

Companies may not use children's data for online targeted advertising unless parents opt in and agree to those uses, under the Federal Trade Commission’s updated ...

Chris Mufarrige, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, speaking at the NAD annual conference in Washington, DC on Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo: Brian O ...

The maker of the popular video game Genshin Impact will pay $20 million to settle claims it violated kids’ privacy and deceived players about the cost of winning sought-after prizes, the US Federal ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Since the rise of artificial intelligence, people, businesses and governments across the world have been grappling with what it means for a variety of reasons. One of the biggest ...

Handing Meta Platforms a victory, a federal appellate court on Friday said the company can proceed with an attempt to block a Federal Trade Commission effort to impose new restrictions on teens' data.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he’s keeping an eye on 23andMe’s bankruptcy proceeding and the company’s planned sale because of privacy concerns related to genetic testing data ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached out to Apple to confirm that the health data collected by Apple's smartwatch, called Apple Watch, will not be sold to third parties, according to a ...

San Francisco-based Uber Technologies will implement a comprehensive privacy program as part of a settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations it made deceptive privacy and data security ...