| Similar Articles |
 |
InternetNews December 2, 2005 Roy Mark |
DSW Decides FTC Security Shoe Fits The other shoe fell today for DSW, the national footwear discounter that admitted in March that hackers accessed more than three months' worth of customer data.  |
InternetNews May 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Ding Data 'Dumpster' The FTC chairman cites a case in the agency's ongoing campaign against lax security security practices.  |
InternetNews June 20, 2005 Clint Boulton |
MasterCard: 40M Credit Card Accounts Exposed Credit card companies said sensitive information, including names, banks and account numbers, for millions of accounts was exposed by Atlanta-based CardSystems Solutions.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
FTC Slaps Record Fine on ChoicePoint Info broker agrees to $15 million in penalties for last year's massive data breach. The company's stock subsequently dropped $3.05 a share to $43.25.  |
Bank Technology News July 2005 Glen Fest |
Data Losses: Cardsystems Takes A Bullet After Breach Visa and American Express bid adieu to the processor, unable to forgive the firm for the compromise of customer data and flouting association rules. Was that fair-and is anyone next in the firing line?  |
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Roy Mark |
Guidance Software Settles With FTC Guidance Software agreed Thursday to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the computer forensics specialist did not take reasonable security measures to protect sensitive customer data.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Congress Reacts to Breach Onslaught BJ's Wholesale Club settles lax data protection charges while FDIC admits to data breach.  |
InternetNews June 24, 2010 |
Twitter Signs Off on FTC's Wrist Slap Twitter has agreed to revamp its security policies and will be subjected to a third-party review of its improved safeguards for the next decade.  |
InternetNews October 21, 2009 |
FTC Reprimands ChoicePoint for Latest Data Breach Incident ChoicePoint agreed to pay $275,000 to redress consumers this week after the Federal Trade Commission said it failed to adequately safeguard one of its databases, an oversight that exposed the personal information of 13,750 people in 2008.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Tim Gray |
Merchants Unwittingly Disclose Consumer Data CartManager International, a provider of shopping cart software, collected the personal data of nearly one million people and turned around and rented the data without their consent to marketers. The company reached a settlement with the FTC.  |
InternetNews July 25, 2005 Roy Mark |
CardSystems May Close Doors The credit card processor that exposed approximately 40 million records to possible identity theft is facing possible financial ruin, as both Visa and American Express canceled their business with CardSystems.  |
InternetNews April 3, 2007 Roy Mark |
FTC Approves Final Guidance Settlement Guidance Software's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission became official today, almost five months after the Pasadena, Calif.-based computer forensics specialist admitted it did not adequately protect customer data.  |
InternetNews February 21, 2007 Roy Mark |
FTC Tags Site Again for Deceptive Ads Consumerinfo.com pays $300,000 to settle charges for deceptive advertising practices. This follows a $950,000 fine a year ago.  |
InternetNews June 20, 2007 Roy Mark |
Getting More Money to ID Theft Victims FTC sends another 2,400 reimbursement forms to consumers victimized by ChoicePoint's 2004 data breach.  |
InternetNews June 1, 2007 Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint Settles With 44 States in Data Losses Data broker ChoicePoint agrees to pay $500,000 and to strengthen data protection measures.  |
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark |
Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.  |
InternetNews December 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
ChoicePoint ID Theft Victims' Day Has Come The Federal Trade Commission notifies out-of-pocket identity theft victims how to tap a $5 million restitution fund.  |
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark |
Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Roy Mark |
FTC Wants to Nix Netflix 'Opt-Out' Terms The Federal Trade Commission is opposing a proposed class action settlement agreement between Netflix and consumers, claiming the deal appears to unfairly favor the online movie DVD rental outfit.  |
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark |
'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Roy Mark |
ID Theft Bill Wends Through Senate The proposed law calls for full disclosure to consumers when sensitive personal data is breached or lost.  |
InternetNews December 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Target Online Business Scams A combined federal-state task force announced Tuesday a law enforcement sweep targeting bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams, including several Internet operations.  |
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark |
DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers.  |
InternetNews September 22, 2005 Roy Mark |
Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Roy Mark |
Bush Goes After ID Theft on National Level President Bush signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon creating a national Identity Theft Task Force... FTC circumspect on national data breach disclosure law... Chertoff says interoperability problems are jurisdictional, not technological...  |
InternetNews January 5, 2006 Roy Mark |
Bogus Spyware Vendors Settle FTC Charges The Federal Trade Commission slaps almost $2 million in fines on firms selling software that did not remove spyware as advertised.  |
InternetNews August 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Site Settles Deceptive Credit Report Claims FTC imposes a $950,000 fine and requires consumer restitution from Consumerinfo.com, which misled consumers with promises of a free credit report.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Rich Smith |
What Would Spitzer Do? If Congress doesn't move fast on identity theft, the nation's attorneys general just might. Investors must now beware a flurry of lawsuits being filed.  |
CRM September 1, 2006 Petouhoff & Johnson |
How Much Is Your Customers' Trust Worth? With the profitability of data theft, there does not seem to be an end to the crime unless customer data protection becomes job number one. And while no company expects to have a data breach, the cost of preventing one may well be worth the price.  |
InternetNews February 10, 2006 Roy Mark |
What's Next For The FTC And Net Threats? The Federal Trade Commission plans hearings some time this fall to ponder the next generation of consumer high-tech threats in the virtual marketplace.  |
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft: CSI for the FTC Redmond crime-stoppers do forensics work to help the FTC charge X-rated spammers.  |
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Tim Gray |
Fronting a Fix on Data Breaches Everyone's pointing fingers and looking for answers as the investigation into a recent leak of credit card accounts at CardSystems Solutions unfolds.  |
InternetNews February 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
FTC: Identity Theft, Fraud on the Rise A new report by the FTC finds increases in fraud and identity theft. E-mail and the Web were fraud tools of choice on the Internet.  |
InternetNews June 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
Latest Breach Hits Navy The U.S. Navy is notifying as many as 28,000 in the latest government failure to protect personal data.  |
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
Bill Targets Trafficking in Social Security Numbers Legislation requires companies to alert customers if their credit card information has been breached. The bill also prohibits requiring individuals to use Social Security numbers as their account numbers.  |
InternetNews June 22, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Two FTC Laptops Stolen The Federal Trade Commission today said two if its attorneys' laptops containing the personal information of 110 people were stolen from a locked vehicle last week.  |
InternetNews December 13, 2007 |
Groups Ask FTC Chief to Recuse Self in Google Deal Consumer groups say head regulator has ties to a law firm representing DoubleClick.  |
Information Today January 14, 2013 George H. Pike |
Google Reaches Settlements With FTC Over Search, Patent Practices On Jan. 3, 2013, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Google reached a series of agreements that closed the FTC's investigation into several of Google's business practices, in return for Google's agreement to modify those practices.  |
Bank Technology News January 2008 Glen Fest |
ID Theft: Assessing the Impact of An Odd ID Theft Survey The FTC's latest survey seems to prove the difficulty, and maybe futility, of measuring identity theft crime. Will it be used to set back prevention efforts?  |
InternetNews March 13, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Million-Dollar Payout in E-Mail Privacy Case E-mail marketing firm Datran Media agreed to pay $1.1 million after New York's attorney general charged it with using 6,000 e-mail addresses it obtained fraudulently.  |
InternetNews February 19, 2004 Roy Mark |
FTC Fines COPPA Violators Web site operator agrees to pay $400,000 for knowingly collecting personal information from children online without first obtaining parental consent.  |
InternetNews November 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges.  |
InternetNews May 3, 2006 Roy Mark |
FTC Sues Sites Selling Phone Records Five Internet sites selling confidential phone records became the target of Federal Trade Commission lawsuits Wednesday.  |
InternetNews June 17, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Twilight for the Phishermen The FTC puts two Internet scamsters out of business.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2005 Roy Mark |
Settlement in the Air at Time Warner The media giant set aside $3 billion to settle class action suits with shareholders upset about the merger with AOL. Hours later, the FTC announced that a subsidiary of AOL settled charges for not disclosing the true nature of bundled adware.  |
The Motley Fool September 4, 2008 Brian Orelli |
Tapping the Brakes on the Teva-Barr Deal The FTC wants more information on this pharma merger before it offers its approval.  |
InternetNews January 9, 2004 Roy Mark |
FTC Wins Judgment Against Net Auction Scammers Court bars two Chicago area residents from participating in Web auctions and orders more than $90,000 in consumer redress.  |
InternetNews June 27, 2007 Roy Mark |
FTC Report Cautions Against Network Neutrality Laws The FCC concludes that existing laws and market conditions suggest new network discrimination rules are unnecessary.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Roy Mark |
Feds Hit Porn E-Mail Ring With Can Spam Law Armed with new rules to supplement the Can Spam Act, the Federal Trade Commission has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography-related spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia.  |
Bank Technology News October 2005 Michael Dumiak |
Protecting Customer Data: Grappling With Lost Data, Broken Trust Data loss is an institution's worst nightmare. And with high profile cases like CardSystems, the largest players are playing damage control with customers-and facing the ire of Congress.  |