The Federal Trade Commission is planning to launch a wide-ranging study of tech companies' data practices, in the latest sign of the increased scrutiny that Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook are facing in Washington.
In such a study, the agency can order companies to turn over detailed information about their business practices. That could force tech companies to share closely held corporate secrets about their inner workings that they've long resisted disclosing.Sign Up In November, then-Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune asked Simons if the commission would consider ordering such a study on Google, Facebook and Amazon "to learn what information they collect from consumers and how that information is used, shared, and sold."
A Commerce Committee spokesperson confirmed the written exchange, which has not yet been posted online. Simons' office did not respond to a request for more information on the particulars of the study in the works.
Why is anyone still on Facebook? It's mostly trolls and fake accounts with the few legitimate users constantly receiving 30 day blocks.
I do not trust this Whitehouse to do anything honestly.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, and other competing internet companies need to be regulated or perhaps broken up as they have had too much rein over peoples lives all over the world. It is also time to tax all e-commerce.Regulation should be country specific
You guys are starting to read like TheOnion. When are the adults coming back to work? They're much more skilled liars than this B or C team or whoever it is has filling in right now. Great entertainment though!
THAT is a GOOD ONE! How about we start with Cambridge spy group? It's all legal now kids! Even for foreign nations' spies as long as they're signed-on w/ 5 Eyes. In fact, our LE & IC uses foreign agents to skirt the law. Where you think the Butina-Rice Am U spy kids are from?
If she can be found, plagiarist Meredith McIver would be a TREASURE TROVE of info – she’s “heard everything, and she’s taken good notes,” said Trump. And if she CAN’T be found, then that’s an even bigger story – about the failure of the press in ’16. [
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