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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Google Investigation By FTC Comes To An End

Comments (0) | Anti-Trust, copyright, copyright laws, fair-use, federal trade commission, FTC, Google, Google Investigation, Internet competitors, Internet Search, Media

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Paige Brettingen
Executive Producer

19 months and 9 million pages of testimony later.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Debt Collection Agencies To Be Supervised By Fed

Comments (5) | CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, consumers union, debt collection, debt collector, Dodd Frank, Dodd-Frank, federal trade commission, financial law, FTC, National, Richard Cordray, Suzanne Martindale

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Agnus Dei Farrant
Executive Producer

The CFPB will oversee larger firms in the industry to make sure debt collectors treat consumers fairly.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Federal Trade Commission Settles Face-off With Facebook

Comments (0) | Facebook, federal trade commission, FTC, privacy, Technology

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Catherine Green
Executive Producer

Company agreed to audits for the next two decades.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

President Obama Unveils "Consumer Privacy Bill Of Rights" For The Internet

Comments (0) | Alan Friel, Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, FTC, obama administration, online privacy, President Barack Obama, Technology

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Karla Robinson
Staff Reporter

Protects from unreasonable data collection

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Four Loko Pressured Into Changing Its Label

Comments (1) | Alcohol, alcoholic, caffeinated, caffeine, Drink, drinking, fda, federal trade commission, Food, food and drug administration, four loko, four lokos, FTC, Phusion Projects

Raishad M. Hardnett
Staff Reporter

Four Loko warns its consumers that it contains up to five beers worth of alcohol.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

FTC Asked To Investigate Facebook Tracking

Comments (0) | cookies, Facebook, FTC, Google, mark zuckerberg, open graph, privacy, software, Technology, timeline

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Ankit Tyagi
Associate Tech Editor

What has legislators and privacy groups upset regarding Facebook?

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Obama Administration Finally Acting On Internet Privacy

Comments (0) | Cameron Kerry, Commerce Department, data collection, data privacy, do not track, eric schmidt, Facebook, FTC, Google Street View, internet privacy, National, privacy, web privacy

Kevin Douglas Grant
Executive Editor

The administration takes first big steps to a uniform policy.