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InternetNews May 3, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Sues Sites Selling Phone Records Five Internet sites selling confidential phone records became the target of Federal Trade Commission lawsuits Wednesday.
InternetNews October 5, 2006 Clint Boulton	FTC Cracks Down on Internet Pretexter The Federal Trade Commission made it clear today that it won't tolerate any pretexting, barring an online business from advertising and selling consumers' phone and credit card account records to third parties.
InternetNews February 9, 2006 Roy Mark	IM, E-Mail Identities Hot on The Net Online data brokers are selling far more than personal telephone records, including the actual names, addresses and phone numbers of instant messaging users and those registered with dating sites, such as Match.com.
InternetNews January 17, 2007 Roy Mark	Pretexting Ban a Federal Done Deal Bush signs new law targeting those who seek confidential phone records and those who sell them.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.
InternetNews December 11, 2006 Roy Mark	Pretexting For Phone Records on The Block As one of its final acts in the wee hours of Saturday morning, the U.S. Congress approved legislation criminalizing the practice of pretexting for confidential telephone information.
InternetNews August 10, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Settles with Pop-up Ad Operators Scheme involved exploiting Windows Messenger Service to barrage consumers with ads.
InternetNews March 8, 2006 Roy Mark	Second Phone Data Privacy Bill Approved Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records.
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews September 8, 2006 Roy Mark	The Murky World of Pretexting HP's actions may be legally questionable, but they sure were easy.
InternetNews March 9, 2006 Roy Mark	Phone Data Privacy Bill Heats Up in Senate Momentum for a telephone data privacy bill began building in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, with Sen. George Allen introducing legislation to outlaw the acquiring, selling or soliciting of someone else's phone records without their express consent.
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Hit Porn E-Mail Ring With Can Spam Law Armed with new rules to supplement the Can Spam Act, the Federal Trade Commission has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography-related spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia.
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Rekindles Hope for Pretexting Bill House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman claims anti-pretexting legislation has a good chance to hit floor before Saturday adjournment.
InternetNews April 7, 2006 Roy Mark	House Subpoenas Phone Data Sites Web sites selling confidential consumer telephone data are refusing to comply with a U.S. House of Representatives' request for information, prompting the Energy and Commerce Committee to issue subpoenas to a dozen companies.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Bill Would Protect Call Records From Snoopers New legislation would have FTC write rules for stricter security standards for consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews January 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Bogus Spyware Vendors Settle FTC Charges The Federal Trade Commission slaps almost $2 million in fines on firms selling software that did not remove spyware as advertised.
InternetNews March 2, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Rocks Phone Record Thieves The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation today aimed at curbing the sale of online black market telephone records.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Nearing Pretexting Vote With an Oct. 6 adjournment date looming, U.S. Senate leaders are hammering out backroom compromise legislation to finalize a bill criminalizing making false or fraudulent statements to obtain phone records.
InternetNews February 21, 2007 Roy Mark	FTC Tags Site Again for Deceptive Ads Consumerinfo.com pays $300,000 to settle charges for deceptive advertising practices. This follows a $950,000 fine a year ago.
InternetNews June 17, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Twilight for the Phishermen The FTC puts two Internet scamsters out of business.
InternetNews August 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Site Settles Deceptive Credit Report Claims FTC imposes a $950,000 fine and requires consumer restitution from Consumerinfo.com, which misled consumers with promises of a free credit report.
InternetNews December 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Target Online Business Scams A combined federal-state task force announced Tuesday a law enforcement sweep targeting bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams, including several Internet operations.
InternetNews February 24, 2006 Roy Mark	CardSystems Settles Data Breach Charges CardSystems settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission Thursday over what the FTC characterizes as the largest known compromise of financial data to date.
InternetNews January 9, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Wins Judgment Against Net Auction Scammers Court bars two Chicago area residents from participating in Web auctions and orders more than $90,000 in consumer redress.
InternetNews January 19, 2006 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Move Against Phone Record Brokers New legislation targets the illegal selling of personal telephone record data.
InternetNews September 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operation Fined $2M A spyware operation that promised protection from viruses and spam but instead installed malware agreed today to pay a $2 million fine to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges of false and deceptive practices.
InternetNews February 6, 2006 Roy Mark	House Has Eyes on Black Market Data Sites The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Committee demands to know source of phone records for sale on Internet.
InternetNews January 11, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Wants to Nix Netflix 'Opt-Out' Terms The Federal Trade Commission is opposing a proposed class action settlement agreement between Netflix and consumers, claiming the deal appears to unfairly favor the online movie DVD rental outfit.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operators Settles With FTC Two notorious spyware operators settled charges Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews September 25, 2006 Roy Mark	House Subpoenas Two HP Execs The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee issued subpoenas today for two HP executives and a private investigator to appear before Thursday's congressional hearing on HP's pretexting scandal.
InternetNews November 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Court Shutters Spyware Operation FTC claims millions of unwanted and unsolicited software downloaded without user permission.
InternetNews February 2, 2006 Roy Mark	Feds Say: Ban All Sales of Phone Records The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission suggest that new laws targeting online phone data brokers should also include carriers.
InternetNews March 31, 2006 Roy Mark	Senate Passes Phone Data Confidentiality Bill A U.S. Senate panel pushed out legislation yesterday that makes it illegal to acquire, use or sell a person's confidential phone records without affirmative written consent.
InternetNews October 4, 2006 David Needle	Former HP Chairwoman Said to be Indicted HP's former lawyer and three investigators also to be charged.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Roy Mark	Congress Wants HP Front And Center HP is guaranteed another embarrassing day in the sun over its pretexting scandal, this time with the cameras rolling and a national audience.
InternetNews August 24, 2006 Roy Mark	AT&T After 'John Doe' Data Brokers New legal tactics aim to curb data brokers gaining unauthorized access to confidential phone records.
Information Today January 14, 2013 George H. Pike	Google Reaches Settlements With FTC Over Search, Patent Practices On Jan. 3, 2013, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Google reached a series of agreements that closed the FTC's investigation into several of Google's business practices, in return for Google's agreement to modify those practices.
InternetNews July 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	EPIC Fighting Online Phone Record Sales The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is taking issue with the sale of detailed phone call records and P.O. box records via online private investigators, and is urging the FTC to investigate.
InternetNews October 10, 2006 David Needle	HP Investigators Arraigned in California Three of the outside investigators Hewlett-Packard hired to probe leaks of confidential information in its boardroom appeared at an arraignment hearing here today at the Santa Clara County Superior Court.
InternetNews April 3, 2007 Roy Mark	Phone Carriers Could Have Your Back The FCC approves rules that, among other things, require telephone carriers to obtain customers' consent to share data.
InternetNews April 29, 2004 Roy Mark	Feds Can Spammers Under New Act Federal authorities use Can Spam to raid prolific Michigan spam operation, which specialized in spoofing to hawk bogus diet patches.
InternetNews October 28, 2010	Verizon Settles With FCC for $25M The $25 million settlement resolves charges that Verizon profited from millions of dollars in accidental data charges to customers over the past three years.
InternetNews June 24, 2010	Twitter Signs Off on FTC's Wrist Slap Twitter has agreed to revamp its security policies and will be subjected to a third-party review of its improved safeguards for the next decade.
InternetNews January 18, 2007 David Needle	Plea Deal Said to Be Offered in HP Pretexting Case Former HP chairman Patricia Dunn reportedly offered a deal that would drop felony charges.
InternetNews April 18, 2006 Catherine Pickavet	Spammers Settle With FTC Two more large-scale spammers have settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission that they sent commercial e-mails in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Roy Mark	Dunn Distances Herself from HP Probe Tactics Former Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn plans to tell Congress today she only learned pretexting was used in a company investigation of boardroom media leaks until after the probe concluded.
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Zango Settles FTC Adware Charges The controversial adware distributor agrees to pay $3 million and provide consumer consent notices.
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Tim Gray	Merchants Unwittingly Disclose Consumer Data CartManager International, a provider of shopping cart software, collected the personal data of nearly one million people and turned around and rented the data without their consent to marketers. The company reached a settlement with the FTC.
InternetNews July 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft: CSI for the FTC Redmond crime-stoppers do forensics work to help the FTC charge X-rated spammers.