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Report: The FTC May Be Considering Closer Antitrust Scrutiny Of Amazon
The Federal Trade Commission is putting Amazon under “closer watch,” a move that may signify heightened interest in some kind of antitrust investigation against the online retail behemoth, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Privacy Advocates Demand That The FTC Investigate Amazon’s Digital Assistant For Kids
Last year, Amazon released a cute little children’s version of its digital assistant, and just like the flagship product it is modelled after, it may also be a pretty powerful surveillance machine.
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Senators Introduce Bill To Stop ‘Dark Patterns’ Huge Platforms Use To Trick Users
Senators Mark Warner (D-Virginia) and Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) have introduced legislation to ban so-called “dark patterns” tactics designed to trick users into handing over access to their data, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
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Owner Of TikTok, An App You’re Probably Too Old To Know About, Fined $8 Million For Illegally Collecting Kids’ Data
Whether in its former life as lip-synching app Musical.ly or its current rebrand as TikTok, the short-form video platform has always courted a youthful demographic. And in the past, its stance on obtaining user consent was, let’s say, inattentive. For both these reasons, it’s now the recipient of the largest civil penalty for violating the…