"Facebook will soon be on privacy probation, thanks to a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission," PC World reports. It's referring to a "consent agreement" about the FTC's "reason to believe" that Facebook has committed "fraudulent, deceptive, [or] unfair business practices," as the FTC put it in its press release – though "most of the issues raised in the complaint have been … [Read more...] about Facebook’s agreement with FTC: What it means for users
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From do-not-call to do-not-track? FTC says yes
In its just-released preliminary framework for protecting Internet users' privacy, the Federal Trade Commission "suggests implementation of a 'Do Not Track' mechanism" reminiscent of the very successful Do Not Call list it launched in 2003. The do-not-track mechanism, "likely a persistent setting on consumers’ [Web] browsers" would allow consumers to choose "whether to allow the collection of data … [Read more...] about From do-not-call to do-not-track? FTC says yes