British authorities have failed to take notice of the US Federal Trade Commission's investigation into DoubleClick. This has led to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company's activities and a separate lawsuit filed by the State of...
Under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the agency has power to punish "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. US senators called for aggressive prosecutions of the most prolific spammers and touted a new proposal granting...
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council recommended earlier this month that banks introduce multiple-factor authentication by the end of 2006. Banks and similar organisations already run reference and background checks on new...
The announcement comes one month after the US Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council said passwords alone are insufficient to protect online access to a bank account. The council has called for a deadline of the end of 2006 for banks to...
That's mostly because the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council last October recommended that banks introduce multiple-factor authentication by the end of 2006. Last year, identity theft for the third straight year topped the list of...
The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and...