Tag: Federal Trade Commission
How To Be Memorable
I recently attended a three-day conference where incredibly successful, influential, experienced and powerful individuals presented. Throughout the conference, these leaders and speakers gave well-prepared keynote...
Welcome to The Era of Social Network Tyranny
Amid growing calls for formal investigations into Facebook’s disturbing mood manipulation research, media scholar Jay Rosen has a reminder for journalists, editors, and personal...
The Many Deceptions at the Heart of the Internet
Everyone knows about the big Internet scams: the e-mails advertising diet pills, the proposed Nigerian bank transfers. But we tend to overlook the milder...
Three New Details From Target’s Credit Card Breach
Appearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, Target’s (TGT) chief financial officer, John Mulligan, provided few groundbreaking revelations about the data breach that...
CFPB Amicus Brief Reveals Ongoing Focus on Time-Barred Debt
Last week, the CFPB filed an amicus brief, in conjunction with the FTC, in a case involving collection practices related to time-barred debt (debt...
Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet
If you want to get a sense of Jesse Willms at his absolute peak—the wealth, the lifestyle, the aura of swaggering invincibility—then the weekend...
The Lucrative Secret Behind Infomercials
NOTHING GOOD IS on TV between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., and for good reason. Nobody's trying. It's the time period known euphemistically in...
Growth In The Internet Of Things
The Internet Of Things represents a major departure in the history of the Internet, as connections move beyond computing devices, and begin to power...
Facebook Updated Privacy Policy Likely Next Week
Facebook has closed the notice and comments period on the proposed changes to its privacy policy, and expects to decide by next week whether...
The Hidden Credit Report That Shuts People Out of the Banking...
Jessica Silver-Greenberg at the New York Times has an important account of how a system created by banks to catch scam artists like check-kiters...
