Nine months on, Trump's promised phone remains a phantom

#TrumpPhone #ConsumerProtection #FTC #AusNews #AIGenerated

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-20-nine-months-on-trumps-promised-phone-remains-a-phantom-c76d5274

Khan's VR warning now looks prescient as Meta abandons metaverse

#FTC #Meta #Antitrust #Metaverse #AusNews #TechPolicy #AIGenerated

https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-19-khans-vr-warning-now-looks-prescient-as-meta-abandons-metaverse-7e03e7d1

FTC targets Xponential Fitness over alleged franchise misrepresentation.

$17M settlement
Disclosure failures
Risk transparency gaps
Compliance ≠ optional.

Source: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/03/protecting-franchisees-ftcs-case-against-xponential-fitness

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#Compliance #Risk #FTC #BusinessSecurity

“Google should just open up their search index and that is one of the US DoJ proposals now.”

“otherwise, if that doesn't happen, basically the expectation for any new search startup would be to rebuild the entire index of the web.
Which is a monumental task and super hard to do. So hard that Microsoft tried doing that for the last 20 years and spent 100 billion and still got nowhere. Like the quality is still pretty bad.”

“And I really think that that one would solve a lot of problems as well as proliferate a very healthy search landscape. Because if that happened, then anyone could basically bootstrap a search engine. And you would have a search engine for a small town that somebody would build just optimizing for that small town or a small niche, like cats.”

“it's almost impossible for a startup to do that. But it would be akin to asking a, someone before they put a train on the tracks to rebuild the entire track”

From Timetable: Episode 137: Vladimir Prelovac, May 29, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/timetable/id1072855651?i=1000710461091&r=1361
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#bigtech #antitrust #ftc #consumer #monopoly

FTC to Turn a Blind Eye to Age Verification Privacy Violations

The FTC has issued a statement saying that it won't enforce COPPA if the violations relate to age verification.

https://www.freezenet.ca/ftc-to-turn-a-blind-eye-to-age-verification-privacy-violations/

#News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #COPPA #FTC #surveillance #US

Over 200 Killed In Mine Collapse In DR #Congo
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi

ASIO’s secret meeting with #Israel
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-continents.html#Australia

Senator Mike Lee Calls for #DOJ, #FTC Investigation Into
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/sports.html#25

#Free #Xbox #Games You Can Play Right Now
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/media.html#12

Proteas coach reacts to #NewZealand defeat
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#Zimbabwe

A taste of home for #Chinese evacuees from #Iran in #Azerbaijan
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#4

#Reginald Clive Mayo
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#42