FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement
A new lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a showcase of how hard it’s become to police the app stores for scammy apps. The suit alleges…
The CFTC moves to vacate a $5M settlement with Gemini, reversing a Biden-era enforcement action, following a lobbying campaign by the Winklevoss twins (Wall Street Journal)
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Law enforcement is now monitoring for ‘anti-tech extremism’
Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A new report from Wired says that law enforcement agencies have been monitoring for “anti-tech violent extremism” threats. Listed “suspicious activities” related to this…
Security research firm Calif says it used Mythos to help build a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit circumventing Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement tech (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)
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OpenAI employees have raised alarms internally over failures to alert law enforcement when users describe plans for real-world violence to ChatGPT (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
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The FTC pushes the enforcement of its “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up, from May 14 to July 14 (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
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FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule
The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to delay enforcement of the Negative Option Rule — known widely as the “click-to-cancel” rule requiring that companies make it as easy to cancel…
YouTube quietly removed “gender identity” from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
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Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation
The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated…
Telegram reports spike in sharing user data with law enforcement
Newly released data from messaging app Telegram reveals a sharp rise in the number of data demands it fulfilled over the past year for users’ data from requesting law enforcement…