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In a 3-2 decision, FTC Commissioners voted to impose a fine of approximately US$5 billion on Facebook for a variety of privacy issues.

The US Government must hold Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg accountable for all the problems that the social media site has visited upon its users, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of the company, says in an op-ed, in which he also called for the company to be broken up.

Ride-sharing company Uber has sacked its chief security officer Joe Sullivan and one of his deputies after it was found that both had played a role in hiding a data breach that exposed the personal data of 57 million users from around the globe.

Google's close ties to the White House during the time of the Obama administration are the main reason why a proposed 2012 probe by the US Federal Trade Commission into the company's alleged unfair competition was dropped.

Internet users in the US have had privacy protections voted in by the Obama administration stripped away, with the House voting 215-205 to pass the measure.

Apple claims mega ARM chip maker Qualcomm “charges it at least five times more in payments that all the other cellular patent licensors we have agreements with combined". It also alleges extortion, so it is suing Qualcomm.

The US Federal Trade Commission is acting against Taiwan-based D-Link over alleged security flaws in some of its products.

Apple, Blackberry, Google, HTC, LG, Microsoft, Motorola and Samsung are under the FCC and FTC’s spotlight as they seek to ‘better understand, and ultimately to improve, the security of mobile devices.’

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SilverPush is called a ‘cross-mapping’ platform that unifies data points from the billions of digital devices around the globe. In the company’s words, “Redefining TV Advertising.”

Taiwanese based ASUS computers have settled a case with the US Federal Trade Commission regarding security flaws in its routers.

The US Federal Trade Commission "accidentally" gave a 2012 US anti-trust report on Google to The Wall Street Journal. The content was not good and concluded that Google's "conduct has resulted — and will result — in real harm to consumers and to innovation in the online search and advertising markets".

Facebook's sensational acquisition of WhatsApp for $US16 billion is making waves again, this time from US regulators who have warned Facebook about making changes to the messaging app's privacy policy.

Apple has suffered a massive legal defeat in the US, being forced to refund US$32.5 million ($36.5 million) to American parents whose children racked up huge bills from in-app purchases.

Co-ordinated action by the ACMA, the US Federal Trade Commission and regulators in other countries has closed down a long running telephone scam in which the scammers posed as tech support staff for Microsoft and other IT companies to extract money from consumers by pretending to remove malware from their 'infected' PCs.

The US Federal Trade Commission has fined Google $US22.5 million for privacy violations.

Yesterday, Facebook and the US Federal Trade Commission agreed to settle charges that Facebook deceived consumers by failing to keep the promises they made regarding privacy.

The US Federal Trade Commission has given the go-ahead for Google's acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob.