Wendy Davis

Federal Trade Commission's roundtable discussion about online privacy.

A Maine legislative committee voted Thursday to repeal a controversial 2009 online marketing law that restricts the data that can be collected from minors.

Broadband in the U.S. already costs more than in many other countries. And it's about to get even more expensive.

Handing Google a procedural victory in one of the antitrust lawsuits it's currently facing, a federal judge in New York has dismissed a case brought by the search marketer TradeComet on the grounds that the company should have filed the lawsuit in California.

A watchdog group that recently asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google Buzz has supplemented its complaint with an allegation that the new service violates Google's own privacy policy.

After conducting a hearing on Friday, a federal judge reserved decision about whether to approve a controversial $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Facebook stemming from its Beacon program.

Facebook has been hit with two new potential class-action lawsuits stemming from recent revisions to its privacy settings. The cases, filed recently in federal district court in San Jose (CA) on behalf of nine Facebook users, allege that the new settings are "confusing and materially deceptive" and lessened their privacy.

Consumers are objecting to the proposed settlement of a privacy lawsuit stemming from the Beacon program.

Behavioral targeting companies had better call their lawyers. Federal Trade Commission consumer protection head David Vladeck warned on Thursday (Jan 28) that the FTC is getting ready to go after online ad companies that try to get around consumers' decisions to avoid online ad targeting.

Two Embarq customers have filed a new privacy lawsuit against the Internet service provider for allegedly funneling information about their Web activity to defunct behavioral targeting company NebuAd.