Three companies reselling consumers’ credit reports have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they did not take adequate measures to protect consumers’ personal information, failures that allowed hackers to access that data. In an announcement posted on its website, FTC said the settlements require the companies to strengthen their data security procedures and [...]
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Expanding off the popular national do-not-call registry to block annoying calls from telemarketers, consumers may soon have the same power to prevent companies from tracking their online activity. The Federal Trade Commission yesterday unveiled a proposal for a plan to balance the privacy interests of consumers with innovation that relies on consumer information to develop [...]
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The Federal Trade Commission has appointed its first chief technologist: Edward W. Felten, who will advise the agency on evolving technology and policy issues. Felten, a professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton University, has consulted for federal agencies, including FTC and departments of Justice and Defense. He has testified before Congress on [...]
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World-recognized cyber and homeland security expert Richard A. Clarke and Orson Swindle, former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, will be delivering keynote addresses at the 2nd Annual NetWitness User Conference, held Oct. 25-26, 2010 in Washington, D.C. Clarke, currently chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, is an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy [...]
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CyberSpy Software, which markets a key logger programmer that claims to be a “100 per cent undetectable” application allowing users to “Spy on Anyone. From Anywhere,” has agreed to rewrite its software following a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The key logging program, known as RemoteSpy, is capable of logging chat conversations, website [...]
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) notified around 100 agencies and companies that significant levels of sensitive employee and customer data is being regularly leaked on peer-to-peer networks (P2P), such as BearShare and LimeWire. Along with the warnings, the FTC released new educational materials to make organizations more cognizant of the threat and best practices to [...]
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On January 28th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is planning to hold discussions examining the potential threats to privacy and data security cloud computing services could pose. This development is being closely watched by Google Inc., Amazon.com, and Microsoft Corp. The first meeting being held will primarily serve to gather information from industry players and [...]
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