The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled with ScanScout, Inc. over the company’s failure to include the fact that it used flash cookies to track users in its privacy policy. This is the second case in one month where the…
The website privacy policy is no longer a piece of obligatory boilerplate tacked on as an afterthought to your new social website: As of yesterday, the FTC has charged Google with deceptive practices over failing to follow its Google Buzz…
Riding the coattails of last week’s FTC crackdown on false advertising, a private touring company has sued Groupon for allegedly driving up its advertising costs by diverting consumers with false and misleading ads. MediaPost reports: The lawsuit, filed in the…
