Melissa Holyoak, an FTC commissioner known for her ties to tech giants like Google, is being considered for director of the ...

The FTC has found that “companies track consumer behaviors to inform surveillance pricing,” with a particular focus on ...

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a 65-page report detailing what it views as its accomplishments over the last four years. In ...

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This is a news item roundup of privacy or privacy-related news items for 12 JAN 2025 - 18 JAN 2025. Information and summaries ...

Instagram’s Edits offers mobile content creators advanced tools, coinciding with TikTok and CapCut's US app removals.

FTC investigates surveillance pricing, where companies use personal data to offer different prices for products.

The FTC study reveals that companies manipulate prices based on consumers’ location, demographics, and shopping behaviors. This practice, termed ’surveillance pricing’, involves tracking online ...

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan announced that the FTC released its findings from a study on "how companies track ...

The watchdog agency's surveillance pricing study indicates that a wide range of consumer behaviors — including the items they ...

According to a new FTC report, retailers are hiring 'intermediary firms' to algorithmically tweak and target their prices, so ...