The FTC’s $60 million settlement with Instacart suggests that automation doesn’t “absolve companies of transparency, consent, or fairness obligations,” attorneys for Mintz said in a post Tuesday.
The FTC’s decision to vacate a Biden administration order against Rytr suggests the agency will “aggressively prioritize innovation and regulatory restraint” under Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Frankfurt Kurnit’s privacy team said in a post Wednesday.
The FTC on Wednesday vacated a 2024 agency order against an AI writing assistant platform, saying it “unduly burdens” AI in violation of President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan.
Consumer Reports and other groups raised the stakes on an earlier claim that Instacart is using personal data to set grocery prices, unbeknownst to customers. On Tuesday, Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union called on the FTC and state attorneys general to investigate, presenting a petition with 40,000 signatures and charging Instacart with deceptive or unfair pricing practices in violation of the FTC Act.
The FTC should reopen its study of surveillance pricing, a bipartisan group of senators wrote Chairman Andrew Ferguson in a letter released Thursday.
Illusory Systems violated the FTC Act by failing to implement data security measures as advertised, which enabled a $186 million breach, the agency alleged Tuesday in a proposed settlement with the Utah-based blockchain developer.
The FTC will hold a Jan. 28 workshop on age-verification technology, the agency said Monday. It will touch on “regulatory contours” and how COPPA applies to the technology.
The FTC won’t set aside its consent order in a “stalkerware” case involving the company Support King and its website SpyFone.com, the federal agency said Monday. Commissioners voted 2-0 Friday in favor of an order to deny a June 27 petition by the company’s CEO Scott Zuckerman.
Education technology provider Illuminate Education must implement a data security program and delete unnecessary data in response to a data breach that may have stemmed from security failures, the FTC said Monday.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak has been appointed interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah, the agency announced Monday, as expected (see 2510300033). Holyoak served her last day as commissioner on Monday.