The staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection filed a comment today with the Federal Communications Commission regarding the FCC’s proposed privacy rulemaking for broadband internet access service providers. In the comment, staff outlines the FTC’s extensive history of privacy enforcement, policy initiatives, and consumer and business education, and it commends the FCC for…
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Stung by Yelp Reviews, Health Providers Spill Patient Secrets
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, May 27, 2016, 11 a.m. Burned by negative reviews, some health providers are casting their patients’ privacy aside and sharing intimate details online as they try to rebut criticism. In the course of these arguments — which have spilled out publicly on ratings sites like Yelp — doctors, dentists, chiropractors and…
NAA Asks FTC to Investigate Unlawful Ad Blocking Practices
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) today filed a Complaint and Request for Investigation with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that certain ad blocking technologies and related services violate Section 5 of the FTC Act as unfair and deceptive trade practices. NAA requests that the FTC investigate ad blockers that offer “paid whitelisting,” substitute ad blockers’ own advertising…
Is Australia Slowly Getting Its Act Together Against Revenge Porn?
Emily Meller writes: Two years ago, Victoria became the first Australian state to legislate against revenge porn and now NSW may be about to follow their lead. Well, kind of. Last month, the NSW Standing Committee on Law and Justice released a report that recommended new laws to target serious invasions of privacy. This includes not only distribution of…