The Federal Trade Commission has put out a very serious warning: It’s enough to make you sick. No sooner had the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act than scam artists began working the phones. They say they’re from the government and that, using the Affordable Care Act as a hook, they need […]
Data mining the social and purchasing trend of online users has been a growing practice and one that has a very eerie “big brother” feeling. The FTC has just concluded a report into the practice and is pushing for tougher laws to allow users to opt out of such practices: The agency, the Federal Trade […]
Reading through the blog posts about the new FTC regulations on bloggers there is a definite split on it. The left seems to welcome the decision while the right is upset over it. For example, here is a post by tea bagger Dana Loesch: Because Uncle Sam think the public is too stupid to make […]
I’m sure some will complain about this new rule for bloggers, but I really think it can help the blogosphere overall: The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. It is the first time since 1980 that the commission has revised […]
So how many out there have received one of these robo-calls to their phone saying “your car warranty is about to expire”? These things have been a total nuisance, and I have even received calls on my cell phone about it. Well it looks like the government has had enough of it: Federal regulators filed […]
There has been talk about this for weeks now, but it looks more and more like the FTC is going to put some regulations in that could effect bloggers: In the new proposed rules, The Federal Trade Commission also addressed advertising in new media (Web 2.0). Essentially, if an advertiser pays a blogger to write […]
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of pricks: One of the nation’s largest time-share companies is going to be shelling out nearly a $1 million for making phone calls to people on the national “Do Not Call” list, federal regulators said Tuesday. Westgate Resorts, based in Orlando, Fla., was named in a complaint filed on […]
The number of thefts on this one are not as high but it is still a sign of how little respect the government has for our personal data: The government agency charged with fighting identity theft said Thursday it had lost two government laptops containing sensitive personal data, the latest in a series of breaches […]