We bloggers certainly know that the FTC is now cracking down, but we didn’t expect the first victim to be Disney.
The company is now offering a full Baby Einstein refund of $15.99 to anyone who bought one of the DVDs between the dates of June 5, 2004 and Sept. 4, 2009.
Consumers can also exchange the [...]

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AdAge reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is another step closer to a new policy that start regulating viral marketing and weblogs.
The government wants to have its hands in everything these days, and apparently the goal is to distinguish so called “paid posts” on blogs from those that are not paid advertisements of ay [...]

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I really hate to say, “I told you so”, but I knew that the Google Docs breach last week would be bad news for Google eventually.
Yesterday, The Electronic Privacy Information Center, A.K.A. EPIC, requested that the Federal Trade Commission launch an investigation into the privacy and security measures of several Google services, including Gmail, Google [...]

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It was time for Facebook to save face by facing up to the facts (I know, I’m sorry).
Staring at data showing that 56 percent of Facebook users wanted the old TOS back AND even a possible complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, Facebook has now decided to revert to their OLD Terms of [...]

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