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'How Greedy Can Amazon and Bezos Get?': Corporate Behemoth to Pay $62 Million Fine for Stealing Drivers' Tips
An Amazon Flex driver loads their personal vehicle with packages outside the 1.2 million-square-foot BWI2 Amazon Fulfillment Center in the Chesapeake Commerce Center on April 14, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Critics Warn Covid-19 Digital 'Privacy' Bill Is Really 'Anti-Privacy' Bill in Disguise
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Sara Collins, policy counsel at Public Knowledge, said the new proposal "gratuitously preempts the much stronger FCC privacy protections governing mobile carriers. These protections have been used to ensure data on mobile phones are not shared with third parties without the user's permission."
"This bill is truly a privacy 'cure' worse than the disease."
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After For-Profit College Agrees to Forgive $141 Million in Student Debt, Sanders Says: 'Good. Now $1,685,456,413,335 More to Go'
Jon Queally, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) hold a press conference to introduce college affordability legislation outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on June 24, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
University of Phoenix settlement with the FTC this week—in which the company...
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Advocates Blast 'Paltry' $170 Million Penalty for Google's Violations of Child Privacy Rules
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A young girl uses a laptop
"The FTC let Google off the hook with a drop-in-the-bucket fine. Not a single...
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Public Citizen
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Demand Progress
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Public Citizen
Andrew Smith Must Recuse Himself From Revisions to FTC’s Online Children’s Privacy Protections
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