By Becca Lower In October 2022, I shared a big announcement in the retail world: Two massive, U.S. grocery store chains, Kroger and Albertsons, had…
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By Common Dreams By Julia Conley To ensure that tech giants will not have “carte blanche with kids’ data,” as one advocacy group said, the…
By Danielle The Federal Trade Commission has prohibited Rite Aid from using facial recognition technology, saying the drugstore chain deployed the technology without reasonable safeguards.…
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering a proposal that would allow businesses to use facial biometric scanning “age-estimation technology” to…
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday launched an investigation into OpenAI, the developer of the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) platform, citing…
by TYLER DURDEN Over the past few weeks, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has turned decidedly negative on President Biden’s FTC chairwoman Lina Khan,…
by Santi Ruiz Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) on Wednesday slammed a package of bills that would empower regulators to go after tech monopolies, calling…
by TYLER DURDEN Like Bloomberg’s Joshua Brustein pointed out in a column published earlier, as a general rule, FTC appointments don’t attract much press interest.…
In stepping up its scrutiny of social media companies, the White House has drafted an executive order that asks the FCC and FTC to take…