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- For Release: December 19, 2012
FTC Strengthens Kids’ Privacy, Gives Parents Greater Control Over Their Information By Amending Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule
Rule Being Modified to Keep Up with Changing Technology - Media Advisory: December 18, 2012
Senator Rockefeller, FTC Chairman Leibowitz to Announce Updated COPPA Rule That Strengthens Kids’ Privacy Protections
At a press conference hosted by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz will announce final amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule that strengthen kids’ privacy protections and give parents greater control over the personal information that websites and online services may collect from children under 13. - For Release: December 18, 2012
FTC Issues Complaint Seeking to Block Integrated Device Technology, Inc.’s Proposed $330 Million Acquisition of PLX Technology, Inc.
Combined Firm Would Have 85 Percent of Market for Specialized Computer Switches - For Release: December 18, 2012
FTC to Study Data Broker Industry’s Collection and Use of Consumer Data
Commission Issues Nine Orders for Information to Analyze Industry’s Privacy Practices - For Release: December 17, 2012
FTC Announces Departure of Consumer Protection Bureau Director David C. Vladeck and Executive Director Eileen Harrington, Appointment of Charles A. Harwood as Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and Pat Bak as Acting Executive Director
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz today announced that David C. Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, is leaving the agency on December 31 to return to a faculty position at Georgetown University Law Center, and that Charles A. Harwood, who has been a Deputy Director in the Bureau for the past three years, will serve as Acting Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection.