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Automakers Sold Your Data for Pennies [Update]

US Senators are asking the FTC to investigate how automakers disclose and sell driver data.

Motor1 · Jul 30, 2024

Progressive Groups Call On Harris To Support Antitrust Regulator

Vice President Kamala Harris faces pressure from business leaders and progressives as she navigates economic policy decisions, including the fate of FTC he...

Car giants are reportedly selling your driving data to insurers – and regulators could step in

Connected cars have opened up a fresh revenue stream for automakers, but selling data isn't as lucrative as it sounds.

TechRadar · Jul 29, 2024

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Car Companies Know When You Speed. Then They Sell That Data

Now two U.S. Senators are urging the federal government to intervene. Will you ever have true privacy in the connected car era?

InsideEVs · Jul 28, 2024

Senators Call For FTC Investigation Into Automakers' Data Sharing

US senators urge FTC to probe automakers sharing driving data with brokers for insurance, raising concerns over customer consent and potential premium impacts.

First Trump, now Harris: LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman has successfully angered both Democrats and Republicans

Hoffman is a longtime Democratic donor.

Fortune · Jul 26, 2024

Adobe executive called software cancellation fees "heroin" for the company, FTC says

Adobe has been criticized for likening its early termination fees to heroin, but Adobe hits back.

TechRadar · Jul 26, 2024

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Senate To Vote on Web Censorship Bill Disguised as Kids Safety

The Kids Online Safety Act would have cataclysmic effects on free speech and privacy online.

Reason · Jul 24, 2024

US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)

Everyone agrees an all-powerful AI run by one company would be a bad idea.

PC Gamer · Jul 24, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission Needs To Stay in its Lane

Recent actions by the FTC show that its officers should review the Constitution.

Reason · Jul 24, 2024

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is finally available on Xbox Game Pass

The latest Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 3, has been added to Xbox Game Pass.

TechRadar · Jul 24, 2024

FTC Investigates Companies For Surveillance Pricing Practices

FTC investigates companies using personal data for surveillance pricing, raising privacy concerns.

FTC orders 8 companies to provide information on 'surveillance pricing' practices

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered information from eight companies that the agency says offer products and services that use personal data to set prices based on a shopper’s individual characteristics

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2024

Biden's Big Government Solutions Dismiss Customer Welfare

Sen. Rand Paul writes that repealing the Robinson-Patman Act would help bust inflation.

Reason · Jul 23, 2024

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Roll Call · Jul 23, 2024

House spending bill would clip FTC’s reach in MGM cyber probe - Roll Call

A policy rider in the House fiscal 2025 Financial Services spending bill would curtail a FTC probe of a cyberattack last year at MGM Resorts.

Fortune · Jul 22, 2024

What CEOs could expect from a President Kamala Harris

The VP is likely to tout her administration's relatively calm stewardship to Big Business.

Salon · Jul 22, 2024

Grocery's biggest merger stuck in limbo

The merger of two of the country's biggest supermarkets now faces both state and federal legal hurdles

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 21, 2024

Microsoft defends Game Pass price changes, tells FTC that adjustment offers multiplayer for less

Microsoft has responded to FTC criticism of its planned price increases and changes to the Game Pass subscription service, saying its new entry-level product offers more value, not less.

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PC Gamer · Jul 20, 2024

Microsoft responds to the FTC, argues its Game Pass price hike is actually a good deal for gamers because the new cheapest tier includes multiplayer now

Why, in the Year of our Lord 2024, does multiplayer functionality still cost extra?

GamesRadar · Jul 20, 2024

Microsoft hits back at the FTC's "misleading" letter that called Xbox Game Pass Standard a "degraded" service as a result of the Activision Blizzard buyout

Does Call of Duty make up for the higher price?

Inverse · Jul 19, 2024

The Xbox Game Pass Price Hike Just Gave The FTC More Ammo Against Microsoft

The FTC governing body accused Microsoft of "introducing a degraded product." Experts talked to Inverse about the latest and what it means.

PC Gamer · Jul 19, 2024

FTC says I told you judge, I warned you bro, as it unloads on Microsoft for Game Pass price hikes and 'a degraded product' that it says break promises made to seal the Activision merger

The FTC notes that Microsoft didn't mention these hikes when it was talking about bringing CoD to Game Pass subs on day one.

Tom’s Hardware · Jul 19, 2024

Microsoft's new Xbox Game Pass Standard Tier is a 'degraded product' according to FTC

Microsoft Game Pass subscription prices are rising across the board and the FTC isn't happy about it, says Microsoft is exercising its market power post-merger with Activision-Blizzard.

GamesRadar · Jul 19, 2024

FTC calls new Xbox Game Pass Standard a "degraded product," says the subscription changes are "exactly the sort of consumer harm" from the Activision merger it alleged could happen

The newly announced Game Pass changes have invited criticism

The Independent UK · Jul 16, 2024

Amazon Prime Day is a big event for scammers, experts warn

Amazon Prime Day is here

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