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The dating app OkCupid has settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations it secretly shared millions of user photos with a third-party facial recognition company. The FTC complaint claims OkCupid provided facial recognition firm Clarifai access to nearly three million user photos, alongside demographic and...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that the popular dating platform OkCupid provided a facial recognition company with a dataset of approximately 3 million user photos. This disclosure highlights a significant data-sharing arrangement that occurred without explicit user consent for such a specific, biometr...
John Deere has agreed to a landmark $99 million settlement with a coalition of U.S. farmers, a major concession in the long-running battle over the right to repair agricultural equipment. The deal, described as "monumental," resolves a class-action lawsuit alleging the company unlawfully monopolized the repair market f...
Agricultural machinery giant John Deere has agreed to a proposed $99 million settlement in a major class action lawsuit centered on farmers' right to repair their own equipment. The lawsuit, filed in Illinois, alleged that Deere's practices restricted access to diagnostic software, tools, and manuals, forcing farmers t...
StubHub has agreed to pay $10 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it used deceptive pricing tactics, a significant enforcement action against a major player in the online ticket marketplace. The FTC charged that the company violated the FTC Act and its Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees by adverti...
The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly considering a settlement with major digital advertising giants, including Google and Meta, over allegations they engaged in illegal, coordinated boycotts of competing ad technologies. This potential deal signals a significant escalation in the FTC's long-running antitrust scru...
Senator Elizabeth Warren has directly intervened in Nvidia's proposed acquisition of SchedMD, formally warning the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that the deal poses significant risks. In a pointed letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan and the Department of Justice's antitrust chief, Jonathan Kanter, Warren argues the transact...
Les trois géants mondiaux de la publicité, WPP, Publicis et Dentsu, viennent de signer un accord contraignant avec la FTC américaine, les empêchant désormais de coordonner entre eux le boycott de médias ou de plateformes au nom de la lutte contre la désinformation. Cet accord, annoncé par communiqué, cible explicitemen...
The Federal Trade Commission and eight U.S. states have simultaneously sued and settled with three of the world's largest advertising holding companies—Dentsu, Publicis, and WPP—over allegations they conspired to cut off digital ad revenue from conservative media outlets. The FTC's complaint, filed in the U.S. District...
Three of the world's largest advertising holding companies—Dentsu US, GroupM (WPP), and Publicis—have settled a landmark lawsuit with the Federal Trade Commission and eight state attorneys general, agreeing to stop entering into contracts that restrict their work with certain clients. The settlement, announced on April...
Des millions de photos de profils et de données personnelles d'utilisateurs d'OkCupid ont été utilisées pour entraîner des modèles de reconnaissance faciale, en violation flagrante de la politique de confidentialité du site. Ces données ont été transférées à la société d'intelligence artificielle Clarifai, spécialisée ...
Clarifai has deleted a massive trove of 3 million user photos it obtained from the dating platform OkCupid, a direct result of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The deletion follows regulatory scrutiny into how the AI company sourced and used personal data to train its facial recognition models, spotlight...
The Federal Trade Commission has assembled a team of investigators and opened probes with an apparent focus on penalizing gender-affirming medical care for minors, according to internal records and statements from agency officials. The effort, described by current and former FTC staff, signals a potential expansion of ...
Shutterstock has agreed to pay $35 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the stock photography platform misled consumers about subscription terms and deliberately complicated the cancellation process. The settlement marks a significant enforcement action against a major digital subscription service, w...