The agency proposed tightening a 2019 consent agreement, that had forced Facebook, which became Meta in 2021, to pay a $5 billion penalty.

The FTC proposed changing a settlement reached in 2019 which required Facebook to pay $5 billion. The FTC said it would tighten that to bar...

Lawyers for Meta , which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and the U.S. government tangled on Tuesday over the U.S. Federal Trade Comm...

The US Justice Department has alleged that Elon Musk's actions at X (formerly Twitter) may have violated a privacy order from the Federal T...

The U.S. government has rejected former Twitter owner Elon Musk's request to end oversight of the company's data privacy and security pract...

After billionaire Elon Musk took over Twitter last year, the company laid off thousands of employees and drastically cut costs, prompting q...

In March it was disclosed that the FTC was investigating Musk's mass layoffs at Twitter and trying to obtain his internal communications as...

In March, the FTC confirmed it was conducting an investigation into Twitter's privacy practices. The agency has been concerned whether Twit...

The company had been charged with violating the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information from...

The company had been charged with violating the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal information fr...

The Federal Trade Commission voted to file charges in two separate cases Wednesday that could also force the company to delete certain data...

The FTC's proposed changes include barring Facebook from making money off data collected on users under age 18, including in its virtual re...

The investigation is focused on whether Twitter has adequate resources to protect its users' privacy after the mass layoffs and budget cuts...

The FTC has sent more than a dozen letters to Twitter and its lawyers since Musk's takeover in October.

From 2017 to 2020, GoodRx uploaded the contact information of users who had bought certain medications, like birth control or erectile dysf...

Fortnite maker Epic Games has consented to pay $520 million to resolve US government charges that it tricked players, including youngsters ...

Former officials differed on whether that settlement put Twitter executives directly in legal peril if the company failed to honor the agre...