Sentence examples for privacy settlements from inspiring English sources

Previous EPIC requests have resulted in F.T.C. privacy settlements with both Google and Facebook.

A 2012 privacy settlement between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission included a consent order requiring, among other things, that Facebook not misrepresent how it collects and discloses its users' information.

EPIC asked the F.T.C. to investigate whether Google's new product violated the terms of its privacy settlement over Buzz and raised the issue that Google's new search feature prioritized Google Plus pages over those of competing social networks.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Trade Commission fined Google $22.5 million on Thursday to settle charges that it had bypassed privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser to be able to track users of the browser and show them advertisements, and violated an earlier privacy settlement with the agency.

Nor, perhaps, as the FTC might have expected give a 2011 privacy settlement with the company.

This, according to the FTC, was in direct violation of the earlier privacy settlement between Google and the FTC.

4) The Right To Clear Outlines of Privacy Changes Google recently simplified their privacy policy in the wake of an $8.5 million privacy settlement over Buzz.

Facebook's partnership with Datalogix has raised complaints from some privacy advocates, who say the social networking company could be violating the terms of a privacy settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission by not obtaining the express consent from users to share their personal information.

At that time, settlements in privacy violation cases typically ran in the tens of thousands of pounds, and legal fees rarely ran that high, lawyers who handle those cases said.

(WellPoint says privacy laws and lawsuit settlements prevent it from explaining what really happened).

Some commission members, state attorneys general and privacy advocates opposed the settlement, saying it did not go far enough.