U.S. Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal have asked the Federal Trade Commission to act on a complaint that Facebook knowingly encouraged children to spend money on the platform, according to a report by Reuters. A coalition of consumer groups allege that Facebook used deceptive...
BEUC, the European consumer interest group, is asking banking authorities to stop the practice of screen scraping, or using software to copy data off a website, reported Finextra. According to the news report regarding the intrusion of data privacy, BEUC is backing the creation of a...
The U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is gearing up to look into complaints from consumer group Which? over the level of protection banks give customers who are tricked into sending payments to fake bank accounts. According to the report, Which? thinks banks should take on...
With so much potential profit to be had from Millennials, why should retailers even bother focusing on Baby Boomers? Because, as new research shows, the older group is not so different from the younger — in terms of shopping and buying behavior— than one might...
August 20, 2019
YouTube is proposing to stop advertisements that target videos watched by kids in a bid to satisfy both regulators and consumer groups. According to Bloomberg, the Federal Trade Commission has been investigating whether YouTube breached the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by using targeted, or “behavioral,” ads on videos that are likely to be […]
February 22, 2019
U.S. Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal have asked the Federal Trade Commission to act on a complaint that Facebook knowingly encouraged children to spend money on the platform, according...
July 12, 2017
BEUC, the European consumer interest group, is asking banking authorities to stop the practice of screen scraping, or using software to copy data off a website, reported Finextra. According to...
September 26, 2016
The U.K.’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) is gearing up to look into complaints from consumer group Which? over the level of protection banks give customers who are tricked into sending...
