Credit reporting agency Equifax will pay about $700 million to state and federal regulators to settle probes stemming from a data breach that exposed the personal information of nearly 150 million people.
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Nearly two dozen consumer, privacy and public health groups are urging U.S. regulators to investigate whether children are being endangered by deceptive apps in Google’s app store for smartphones running on its Android software.
Read MoreThe Electronic Privacy Information Center said in the letter to the FTC that Google’s recording of time-stamped location data — even after users have turned off a setting called Location History — “clearly violates” the 2011 settlement.
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A coalition of more than 20 consumer advocacy groups is expected to file a complaint with federal officials Monday claiming YouTube has been violating a children’s privacy law.
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The U.S. government is officially investigating Facebook, and chief law enforcement officers for North Carolina (Josh Stein) and 36 other U.S. states and territories, are demanding answers from Facebook about user data.
Read MoreThe Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into whether Facebook violated an agreement with the agency on data privacy as calls mount for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify.
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Even as consumers increasingly shop and compare prices on the web, one group of businesses remains slow to put cost information online: funeral homes.
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