The FTC may seek an injunction in order to prevent Facebook from tightly integrating features across its suite of messaging services. The potential injunction, The Wall Street Journal notes, arises out of fear >>
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AT&T will pay a $60 million fine for throttling its ‘unlimited data’ plans
From now on, AT&T is going to be prohibited from making any official representations about its mobile data speeds and amounts “without disclosing any material restrictions on the speed or amount of data.” >>
Facebook could be fined up to $5 billion by the FTC due to privacy violations
Facebook has been dealing with one privacy-related scandal after another for more than a year now, a reality that’s about to present the social networking company with a seriously heavy financial penalty. The >>
FTC slaps companies responsible for billions of robocalls with multi-million dollar fines
Over the past few years, spam calls have become an increasing and seemingly inescapable nuisance. In 2018 alone, a report found that the number of spam calls jumped by a whopping 325%. Compounding >>
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have 30 days to kill warranty stickers or the government will sue
Last month, the FTC said in a statement that warranty-void-if-removed stickers, which are endemic on all sorts of electronic devices, are basically worthless and also kinda illegal. That’s good news for customers, but >>
Ignore those ‘warranty-void-if-removed’ stickers because the FTC says they’re worthless
Warranty-void-if-removed stickers are one of the biggest barriers to fixing things yourself. You might want to go digging around inside your external hard drive to see why it just decided to die, but >>
Uber just got absolutely nailed by the FTC, agrees to audits for the next 20 years
Everyone new startup dreams of being the next Uber, but for the company itself the road has hardly been easy. The company grew incredibly rapidly but regularly trips over its own feet, and >>
Antitrust watchdog investigates Amazon for allegedly lying about deal prices
The Federal Trade Commission just set its sights on Amazon’s deal pricing schemes, responding to complaints that the giant online retailer misleads customers with its discounts. The FTC’s investigation is part of its >>
