An uptick in hospital mergers is grabbing the attention of federal regulators, who are sounding alarms about potential increases in health care costs....
The Obama administration on Thursday will unveil a consumer privacy "bill of rights" that aims to give web users more control over how their personal ...
Even scam artists are outsourcing. On Tuesday in its first crackdown on fraudulent telemarketing in South Asia, the Federal Trade Commission announced...
Dozens of mobile apps for kids, from alphabet and word games to flash cards and puzzles, do not disclose how they use children's personal data and may...
These days, debt collectors are putting some people through so much pain that it's landing them in the hospital. Anne Sessions of Lane County, Oreg...
The government's efforts to police debt collectors -- an ongoing battle that has drawn in countless ranks of cash-strapped consumers in recent years -...
WASHINGTON -- One of the nation's largest consumer debt buyers will pay a $2.5 million civil fine to settle deception allegations. The Federal Trade ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Expect to see fewer "newsy" online advertisements hawking acai berry diet pills. Federal regulators announced settl...
UPDATE: On Thursday, EPIC sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into the changes at Google. The letter reads in p...
Work-at-home scams often prey on the most vulnerable Americans, but even when they're punished for taking advantage of the unemployed, elderly and oth...
Last month, when Congress declared pizza a vegetable, it was hard to believe things could get much worse. But never underestimate politicians' ability to put corporate interests ahead of children's health.
Two owners of a Southern California-based loan modification company were arrested Tuesday on charges that they scammed thousands of distressed homeown...
A major lobbying push by a powerful group of food and media companies appears to be working, with a federal agency indicating it would back off on parts of proposed voluntary guidelines for marketing food to children. The guidelines are meant to combat childhood obesity.
The FTC and Facebook have reached a settlement on charges that Facebook deceived consumers "by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public."
Not paying off debts can eventually land you in jail -- at least in a sizable minority of U.S. states. Borrowers who can't or don't pay their debts...
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are reportedly near a settlement over the company's privacy policies. But Facebook is not the first socia...
"Look, I am trying to help your company. This matter is serious and will cause problems at the job." That's allegedy what employees at Rincon Debt ...
If you are looking for a suitable franchise to buy, a discount alone is not a good enough reason.
While researching a paper on privacy law this summer, Max Schrems, a 24-year-old law student in Austria, asked Facebook to turn over all the data the ...
Our founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves, given the certain state of disgrace in Washington, D.C. and in various other parts of our o...
By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - Google Inc is confident that U.S. antitrust regulators will clear the search giant of any wrongdoing, Executive Chairm...
This article has been updated Yelp, which has long dominated Google search results, has a new competitor that it's taking very seriously: Google itse...
Federal regulators on Thursday proposed tougher privacy protections for preteens surfing the Internet as the government seeks to update safeguards put...
Google announced on its blog Monday that it plans to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. If the deal is approved by antitrust regula...
Recently, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate have all taken aim at "cramming," a multibillion dollar i...
