Fortnite creator Epic Games to pay record FTC fine over violating children’s privacy

Epic Games, the Cary-based creator of the popular video game Fortnite, has agreed to pay a record $520 million to the Federal Trade Commission over complaints that the company violated children ... Read More

Privacy groups complain to FTC over Google’s ‘deceptive’ policy change

An Nvidia job posting reveals how the company's GeForce Experience giveaways works, and hints at forthcoming GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and Club GeForce Elite announcements. A standoff between Uber and ... Read More

Facebook And Google Are Under Fire For Shady Data. Why Not Uber?

As Uber's privacy policy ... of its user data and was being investigated by the FTC over a similar breach that occurred two years before in 2014. Nearly a year later, under its new leadership ... Read More

Uber’s ex-security chief on data breach disclosure to FTC: ‘It’s legal’s job to decide’

Uber's former security chief told investigators he was more concerned with protecting stolen user data than reporting a serious 2016 security breach to the Federal Trade Commission ... which has more ... Read More

How The FTC Could Slow OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Craig S. Smith is a former correspondent and executive at The New ... and the FTC in 2019, one of the largest fines ever imposed by the agency. Rotenberg, a privacy law expert and AI policy ... Read More

FTC Releases 2023 Privacy and Data Security Update

Kim Phan, Ronald Raether, Jr. On March 28, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Privacy and Data Security Update, highlighting the FTC’s activities in ... Read More

Cerebral faces $7M FTC penalty over alleged health data security failures

Cerebral will be prohibited from sharing consumer health data with third parties for most advertising purposes as a result of the FTC's investigation. Read More

FTC Opens Probe Into ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Over Whether It Was ‘Unfair and Deceptive’ About Data Privacy, Risks of Consumer Harm

The FTC is looking into whether OpenAI, the developer of the artificial-intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, “engaged in unfair or deceptive privacy or data security ... The agency’s probe into ... Read More

Teens assault, attempt to rob Uber driver at gunpoint while filming attack

A group of teens attacked an Uber ... in East New York to pick up a female fare named Precious around 7 p.m. Sunday and noticed a group of teens across the street, he said. He asked if they ... Read More

What Uber?s new travel feature means for the hospitality industry

Uber?s filing for a new patented feature, called Uber Travel, could have serious implications for the future of booking applications as well as ride-sharing services, underscoring consumer demand for ... Read More