The ad giants have agreed to a consent decree with the U.S. regulator to get their $13 billion deal over the finish line.

There was lots of talk this week about Facebook's 2011 “consent decree” with the FTC. What's it mean? And why should you care? We break it down.

Republican Federal Trade Commission agreed to approve a $13.5 billion ad merger if it includes a ban on steering ad dollars ...

Omnicom and Interpublic said they would not direct their clients’ advertising away from media platforms because of the ...

Some readers may have noticed Gordon Crovitz’s column in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago on the FTC’s Consent Decree with Apple dealing with Apple’s iTunes store. Under Apple ...

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether Facebook violated a consent decree by enabling third parties to access users' information without their permission. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks ...

The FTC says Twitter is suspected of violating a 2022 consent decree in which it pledged to protect user privacy. REUTERS. Taibbi, Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, and other reporters partnered with new ...

The world's largest ad agency is forbidden from using 'political or ideological' viewpoints to determine where an ad should ...

Facebook told the Times that the 2011 FTC agreement didn’t require it to have explicit consent for sharing user data with these partners’ platforms because Facebook considered them to be ...

The FTC consent decree required that users be notified and that they explicitly give their permission before data about them is shared beyond the privacy settings they have established.