FAS stated, 'It is clear that businesses need time to adapt to the new rules and shift to alternative advertising channels.' This reflects the agency's recognition of the challenges faced by advertisers in light of the new regulations.
Age verification technologies are some of the most child-protective technologies to emerge in decades. Our statement incentivizes operators to use these innovative tools, empowering parents to protect their children online.
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it will appeal the November ruling in favor of Meta in its antitrust case against the social media giant. The FTC said it continues to allege that, for more than a decade, Meta Platforms Inc. has "illegally maintained a monopoly" in social networking through anticompetitive conduct "by buying the significant competitive threats it identified in Instagram and WhatsApp."
Verizon's latest complaint, which resulted in case #7415, questioned T-Mobile's advertising claims in its "Save on Every Plan" brochure, two commercials, "Top Three Plays of the Day," and "Holidays Are Coming in Hot: Families: Save 20%," a T-Mobile USA press release, and on T-Mobile's Savings Calculator website. As a result of its findings, NAD recommended that T-Mobile discontinue these claims:
These days, the internet "looks a hell of a lot more like Las Vegas than 'Little House on the Prairie.'" That's how Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, described the online experience of children in his opening remarks for an FTC workshop on age verification last week. The event took place on Wednesday, January 28, which also happened to be Data Privacy Day, an annual "holiday" of sorts to raise awareness about privacy issues and encourage better data protection practices.
