February 24, 2012
A Washington federal judge on Friday tossed a privacy group's suit asking the court to force the Federal Trade Commission to block Google Inc.'s privacy policy changes that allegedly violate a prior consent order, saying courts cannot tell agencies how to enforce such agreements.
February 17, 2012
Several websites belonging to the Federal Trade Commission were shut down Friday following an attack by a hacker group, which said it was protesting the agency's handling of a new Google privacy policy and the federal government's support of a proposed global anti-counterfeiting agreement.