A group of influential senators are renewing efforts to ban children under 13 from social media and prohibit platforms from targeting teens with personalized recommendations.

General Motors (GM) can’t sell their consumers’ geolocation and driver behavior data to consumer reporting agencies for the next five years, according to a proposed settlement between the automaker and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

General Motors will be banned for five years from disclosing data that it collects from drivers to consumer reporting agencies as part of a settlement with the government to resolve claims that the automaker shared such data without consumers’ permission.

In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Detroit-based GM used a misleading enrollment process to get consumers to sign up for OnStar’s services and its Smart Driver feature, which the automaker ...

The Federal Trade Commission will bar the automaker from sharing customer geolocation and driver behavior with consumer reporting agencies for five years. The first such order, it will last 20 years,

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1. They came in prepared this time, with outrageous and lawless executive orders written and ready to roll out. 2. When Trump makes an impromptu decision (“Fuck it: Release ’em all”), it’s based on his worst and most authoritarian instincts. 3. Obviously, this administration will act totally without regard to precedent or law.

Multiple people were left injured after a car drove into pedestrians following a football game in Philadelphia. A vehicle crashed into a crowd at an intersection at Broad and Spring Garden on Sunday,

Two Democrats at FTC declined to vote Ferguson criticized dissenting Democrat for opposing Trump Vote surfaces larger disagreement over FTC independence Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Trade ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced several projects across Michigan that expect to create up to 723 new jobs and generate over $65 million in private investment combined. One of the projects involves Piston Automotive, a subsidiary of automotive supplier Piston Group, LLC.

The updated tally extends the scope beyond what was previously described by company Chief Executive Andrew Witty.

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