A letter sent to ESRB president Patricia Vance by United States Senator Maggie Hassan calls on the rating agency to take steps to analyze and curb the proliferation of loot boxes in videogames. In a separate Q&A session with FTC commissioner nominees, the senator also suggested that if the ESRB fails to take action, the government could […]
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating semiconductor giant Broadcom to see if it has engaged in anticompetitive tactics in negotiations with customers, per a report in the WSJ. According to the report, the probe has been going on for several months. Broadcom has changed some of its contracts so that they now call for customers […]
Uber and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have settled a complain the company’s privacy and security practices. The settlement will require Uber to implement a new privacy program and submit itself to regular third-party audits to make sure it’s protecting its users’ data. The complaint in question alleged that Uber misrepresented its privacy and security programs […]
Intel and Samsung support the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust investigation against Qualcomm and have filed amicus briefs making public their complaints. The FTC hit Qualcomm with legal action in January and suggested that the company’s patent licensing practices may violate monopoly regulations. Intel and Samsung look to agree. “Intel is ready, willing, and able to […]
The FTC will get another chance to prove AT&T illegally throttled customers’ data speeds. An appeals court has reinstated the FTC’s case against AT&T this. The court originally dismissed last summer on grounds that the FTC didn’t have jurisdiction over internet providers due to their common carrier status. The reversal, if successfully argued by the FTC, […]
The FCC today, under new Chairman Ajit Pai, said it will stay the ISP customer privacy rules approved in October and set to go into effect today. “We still believe that jurisdiction over broadband providers’ privacy and data security practices should be returned to the FTC, the nation’s expert agency with respect to these important […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle charges that it “installed software on its TVs to collect viewing data on 11 million consumer TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent.” The FTC, along with New Jersey’s attorney general and Department of Consumer Affairs, previously said that Vizio started to […]
Qualcomm has responded to another series of lawsuits from Apple, this time in China, accusing the component maker of abusing the popularity of its products to extract high royalty fees and restrictive license agreements from the manufacturers with which it works. Apple previously filed suit against Qualcomm in a San Diego federal court. The company […]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today filed a complaint against Qualcomm, alleging the chip-maker uses its market position to monopolize the sale of cell phone baseband processors. The FTC says Qualcomm is violating the FTC Act in several ways. First, Qualcomm refuses to license standard-essential patents to competitors even though it has committed to do […]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has laid out plans to return some $88 million in cash to wronged AT&T customers. In 2014, AT&T settled with the FTC over illegally adding third-party charges to monthly bills, a practice known as cramming. The FTC says 2.5 million current AT&T customers and 300,000 former customers will receive reimbursement for […]
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