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Man arrested over theft of federal bank source code

...programmer on Wednesday and charged him with stealing source code from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Bo Zhang, 32, is accused of taking... Read more

19 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Anonymous plots attack on US Federal Reserve site

...The Anonymous activist group says it plans to target the US Federal Reserve from Tuesday, most likely with a distributed denial-of-service attack... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Google releases full FCC report on Street View scanning

...Google has released a full version of the Federal Communications Commission's report on the company's controversial gathering of personal... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Edward Moyer

Report: Google faces fine over Safari tracking

...The US Federal Trade Commission is expected to decide during the next 30 days whether... Read more

17 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Consumer group takes Google privacy complaint to FTC

...Center for Digital Democracy filed a complaint on Wednesday with the US Federal Trade Commission claiming that Google's move to consolidate its dozens of... Read more

23 February, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Report: FTC to probe Google+

...The US Federal Trade Commission is extending its probe of Google to include Google+, the... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Joe Svetlik

Google faces antitrust calls over search shake-up

...privacy concerns. He said he is considering filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking the agency to investigate the Google search update... Read more

12 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

AT&T drops bid for T-Mobile USA

...US Department of Justice sued to block the merger. In November the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) indicated it opposed the merger as well. In both... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Regulator attacks AT&T and T-Mobile USA merger

...job losses and less competition. In the 109-page report (PDF), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that the $39bn (£24.7bn) merger of the... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Steven Musil

Facebook strikes deal on privacy with FTC

...Facebook has settled a federal complaint about its privacy practices, making major changes to the way it... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

US politicians call for scrutiny of Facebook tracking

...Two US congressmen have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook's practice of tracking users even after... Read more

29 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Report: FTC probe of Google will look at Android

...people familiar with the probe", reported on Wednesday that lawyers from the Federal Trade Commission are asking whether the web giant is preventing device makers... Read more

11 August, 2011 by Jay Greene

Report: FTC readies antitrust probe of Google

...The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly ready to serve Google with subpoenas in a... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Researcher: Dropbox misled users over data security

...A complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission alleges that cloud-based storage provider Dropbox has deceived users... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Madalena Araujo

Microsoft business suite gets US government certification

...Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services-Federal product has won certification from the US federal government under the Federal... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Jay Greene

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Burn-IT

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