Comment on FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months agopermanetly What stops them from doing it again?
What stops other busunesses from carrying on until theur caught? No one is in jail.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Escalating enforcement? Why do you think the FTC can’t add fines/jail time now that they have set strict rules?
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not American but my understanding is the FTC has been toothless for 30 years.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It comes and goes with various administrations unfortunately. Since we basically cant pass any law that eouod cost a company $1, it calls to these executive agencies to make quasi laws with previously legally granted power to get anywhere near sanity.
This FTC has been heavy hitting because the biden admin has been putting mostly serious people into these roles.