Wired / Ryan Singel The FTC put the online advertising and user tracking industry on notice Monday that it’s time to clean up its act and start treating users’ data with respect, laying out broad guidelines for companies to follow. But the agency st… more »

Wired.com / Tim Carmody Facebook is reportedly ready to settle a privacy complaint with the FTC, agreeing to get consent from users before making private data public and to performing privacy audits for the next 20 years. At issue is Facebook’s de… more »

The Wall Street Journal / By JULIA ANGWIN, SHAYNDI RAICE and SPENCER E. ANTE Facebook Inc. is finalizing a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over charges that it engaged in deceptive behavior when changing its privacy settings, acco… more »

Bloomberg.com By Jeff Bliss and Sara Forden Google Inc. (GOOG)’s dominance of the Internet-search industry is being considered for a broad antitrust investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, two people familiar with the matter said. Befo… more »

The Hill By Dick Morris    Jon Leibowitz, the chairman of Obama’s Federal Trade Commission, is at the epicenter of a quiet movement to subsidize news organizations, a first step toward government control of the media. In our book, 2010: Take Back… more »