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Uber Sued by FTC Over ‘Deceptive’ Subscription Sign-Ups
Uber was sued by the US Federal Trade Commission. In a complaint filed Monday, the FTC alleges the company charged consumers for its Uber One product without their consent, misled users about the program’s savings and made it “unreasonably” burdensome to cancel the service.
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Meta's Zuckerberg Eyed Instagram Spinoff Amid Antitrust Scrutiny, Document Shows
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over concerns about growing risk of antitrust scrutiny. The document was shown during Zuckerberg's second day of testimony at the high-stakes trial, in which the Us Federal Trade Commission is seeking to unwind Meta's acquisitions of prized assets Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Disputes US Antitrust Case in Trial Testimony
Mark Zuckerberg testified in a US antitrust trial this week. The FTC is seeking to force Meta to restructure Instagram and WhatsApp, challenging its reliance on ad revenue and its dominance in the social networking space. Meta has argued that its purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 have benefited users.
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Landmark US Antitrust Trial Could Force Zuckerberg To Sell Instagram
The Meta case is being made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the powerful US consumer protection agency, and could see the owner of Facebook forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Meta Faces FTC Trial With Instagram, WhatsApp Breakup at Risk
The US Federal Trade Commission is targeting Meta's deals for Instagram and WhatsApp in a landmark antitrust lawsuit set to go to trial Monday, alleging that the acquisitions were illegal, should never have been approved and should be broken up.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Donald Trump to Avoid Antitrust Trial: Report
Meta and its representatives met with President Trump and his senior advisers ahead of an April 14 Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of messaging platform WhatsApp and image-sharing app Instagram.
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US FTC Moves Ahead With Broad Microsoft Antitrust Probe
The FTC sent Microsoft a so-called civil investigative demand, which is similar to a subpoena, late last year. The document compels the company to turn over reams of data about its AI operations, including the cost to train models and obtain data, going as far back as 2016.
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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How Trump's New FTC Chair Views AI, Big Tech
The "pro-regulation side of the AI debate" is "the wrong one," Ferguson said.
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Google Said to Have Asked FTC to Break Up Microsoft's Cloud Deal With OpenAI
Google has asked the US government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers. The conversation reportedly happened after the US Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation.
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Meta Will Face Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Acquisitions
Meta will be facing a trial in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break-up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media.
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Meta Pushes Back Against FTC Effort to Toughen Privacy Order
A Meta lawyer told the FTC’s five commissioners at a hearing Tuesday that the consumer protection agency doesn’t have authority to modify the agreement without the company’s consent.
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Social Media Users Lack Control Over Data Used by AI, US FTC Says
Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday.
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Microsoft Says Wrong to Call New Game Pass Standard Tier 'Degraded', Calls FTC Filing 'Misleading'
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticised the raised Xbox Game Pass pricing and called the new subscription tier “degraded” in a court filing last week. Now, the Xbox parent has responded to the FTC’s claim and called it “misleading.”
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US Regulators Accuse TikTok Of Violating Child Privacy Laws
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against the popular video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice, alleging that they failed to protect the privacy of children.
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Uber Sued by FTC Over ‘Deceptive’ Subscription Sign-Ups
Uber was sued by the US Federal Trade Commission. In a complaint filed Monday, the FTC alleges the company charged consumers for its Uber One product without their consent, misled users about the program’s savings and made it “unreasonably” burdensome to cancel the service.
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Meta's Zuckerberg Eyed Instagram Spinoff Amid Antitrust Scrutiny, Document Shows
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over concerns about growing risk of antitrust scrutiny. The document was shown during Zuckerberg's second day of testimony at the high-stakes trial, in which the Us Federal Trade Commission is seeking to unwind Meta's acquisitions of prized assets Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Disputes US Antitrust Case in Trial Testimony
Mark Zuckerberg testified in a US antitrust trial this week. The FTC is seeking to force Meta to restructure Instagram and WhatsApp, challenging its reliance on ad revenue and its dominance in the social networking space. Meta has argued that its purchases of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 have benefited users.
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Landmark US Antitrust Trial Could Force Zuckerberg To Sell Instagram
The Meta case is being made by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the powerful US consumer protection agency, and could see the owner of Facebook forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Meta Faces FTC Trial With Instagram, WhatsApp Breakup at Risk
The US Federal Trade Commission is targeting Meta's deals for Instagram and WhatsApp in a landmark antitrust lawsuit set to go to trial Monday, alleging that the acquisitions were illegal, should never have been approved and should be broken up.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Lobbies Donald Trump to Avoid Antitrust Trial: Report
Meta and its representatives met with President Trump and his senior advisers ahead of an April 14 Federal Trade Commission trial that could force the company to unwind its acquisitions of messaging platform WhatsApp and image-sharing app Instagram.
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US FTC Moves Ahead With Broad Microsoft Antitrust Probe
The FTC sent Microsoft a so-called civil investigative demand, which is similar to a subpoena, late last year. The document compels the company to turn over reams of data about its AI operations, including the cost to train models and obtain data, going as far back as 2016.
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Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says
The FTC has said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.
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How Trump's New FTC Chair Views AI, Big Tech
The "pro-regulation side of the AI debate" is "the wrong one," Ferguson said.
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Google Said to Have Asked FTC to Break Up Microsoft's Cloud Deal With OpenAI
Google has asked the US government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers. The conversation reportedly happened after the US Federal Trade Commission asked Google about Microsoft's business practices as part of a broader investigation.
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Meta Will Face Antitrust Trial Over Instagram, WhatsApp Acquisitions
Meta will be facing a trial in a US Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break-up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media.
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Meta Pushes Back Against FTC Effort to Toughen Privacy Order
A Meta lawyer told the FTC’s five commissioners at a hearing Tuesday that the consumer protection agency doesn’t have authority to modify the agreement without the company’s consent.
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Social Media Users Lack Control Over Data Used by AI, US FTC Says
Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems incorporating artificial intelligence, the US Federal Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday.
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Microsoft Says Wrong to Call New Game Pass Standard Tier 'Degraded', Calls FTC Filing 'Misleading'
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) criticised the raised Xbox Game Pass pricing and called the new subscription tier “degraded” in a court filing last week. Now, the Xbox parent has responded to the FTC’s claim and called it “misleading.”
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US Regulators Accuse TikTok Of Violating Child Privacy Laws
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has referred a complaint against the popular video-sharing app TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice, alleging that they failed to protect the privacy of children.
