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Oz profits from insulin price gougers

Mehmet Oz specifically called out UnitedHealth and CVS for soaring prices — but he's heavily invested in both

Salon

Activision Blizzard's Independent Board Gives Its Officers Clean Chit Against Denial Of Harassment Claims

Activision Blizzard, Inc's (NASDAQ:ATVI) Workplace Responsibility Committee of independent directors dismissed allegations of rebuttal of gender harassment claims by senior officials as alleged by different media reports. The gaming giant acknowledged some substantiated instances of gender harassment. However, it denied awareness and tolerance of harassment by the officials. Also Read: Activision Blizzard Registers 22% Revenue…

Benzinga

Trade Associations, Chamber of Commerce Warn of Danger in Data Privacy Bill

Plus: Purity politics, the end of the "millennial consumer subsidy," an unhappy outcome for folks seeking to free Happy the elephant, and more...

Reason

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Morning Brief: Top Financial Stories Dominating on Wednesday, June 15

Reuters Warner Bros Discovery To Undergo Major Global Ad Sales Team Restructuring

Benzinga

Softbank-Backed Mental Health Startup Cerebral Under FTC Scrutiny: WSJ

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has begun investigating mental-health startup Cerebral Inc on its potential engagement in unfair practices related to advertising or marketing of services.

Benzinga

New York City Toddlers Can Finally Take Off Their Masks

Plus: trans teens, trouble at the FTC, and more...

Reason

Conservative bench's new war on federal regulatory agencies

The right is getting ready to rein in regulators' powers just as the Biden administration is starting to flex them.

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Federal regulators probe Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark, and others. What are they investigating?

Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefit manager that Cigna Corp. bought in 2018, is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for what regulators claim is influence over drug prices wielded by pharmacy benefit managers and transparent business practices.

Tribune News Service

FTC Says Concerns Around Tesla's Autopilot On Its Radar, Does Not Confirm Or Deny Probe: Report

Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) full self driving system, known as Autopilot, is a subject of focus and on the Federal Trade Commission's radar, Reuters

Benzinga

FTC Chair Khan plans key work on kids' data privacy online

The head of the Federal Trade Commission says the agency is pushing a robust agenda of actions and policies to help safeguard children’s privacy online

The Independent UK

FTC's new stance: Litigate, don't negotiate

Agency head Lina Khan says she'll sue to stop anticompetitive mergers rather than negotiate settlements.

Axios

FTC plans inquiry into pharmacy benefit manager practices

The Federal Trade Commission is starting an inquiry into the operations of pharmacy benefit managers who control access to prescription drugs for millions of Americans

The Independent UK

The Growing Legal Risks of ESG

By George Boychuk

Benzinga

$1 billion went down the drain in crypto scams last year

And that’s likely just the tip of the iceberg.

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Benzinga

Social Media And Crypto a Combustible Combination for Fraud: FTC Report

Social media and cryptocurrencies are a combustible combination for fraud, with nearly half the people who reported losing crypto to a scam since 2021 saying it started with an advertisement, post, or message on a social media platform, according to a report by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The Street

Crypto: 46,000 People Lost $1 Billion to Cons in 15 Months

Scammers are taking advantage of the crypto craze to line their pockets, FTC says.

The Guardian - UK

Why your ability to repair a tractor could also be a matter of life and death

US farmers’ struggles for the right to fix their own, now highly computer-controlled equipment, have implications for us all

Reason

Biden Says Fighting Inflation Is His Top Economic Priority. His Antitrust Policy Would Make Inflation Worse.

Attacking big firms just for being big could drive up prices.

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Benzinga

Twitter To Settle Complaint Alleging It Used User Phone Numbers To Target Ads For $150M

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) will pay $150 million in civil penalties after the social media platform settled a complaint that alleged that the company used its members’ email addresses and phone numbers to target them with advertisements.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Hits Twitter with $150 Mn Fine Over Privacy Breach

Twitter agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations the platform gave advertisers some user information that was supposed to be employed to strengthen account security, US authorities said Wednesday. The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice accused Twitter of taking phone numbers or email addresses provided to…

The Independent UK

Twitter to pay $150M penalty over privacy of users' data

Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span

AFP

US hits Twitter with $150 mn fine over privacy breach

San Francisco (AFP) - Twitter agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations the platform gave advertisers some user information that was supposed to be employed to strengthen account security, US authorities said Wednesday.

WEKU

Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data

Federal regulators accuse the company of violating a 2011 agreement over the treatment of users' personal data, including phone numbers and email addresses.

Tribune News Service

The private sector steps in to protect online health privacy, but critics say it can’t be trusted

Most people have at least a vague sense that someone somewhere is doing mischief with the data footprints created by their online activities: Maybe their use of an app is allowing that company to build a profile of their habits, or maybe they keep getting followed by creepy ads.

Benzinga

Washington Attorney General Indicts Meta's Mark Zuckerberg For Alleged Role In Cambridge Analytica Scandal

The attorney general for Washington, D.C., charged Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly participating in decision-making that led to the Cambridge Analytica data breach, the Wall Street Journal reports. The evidence shows Zuckerberg was personally involved in Facebook’s failure to protect the privacy and data of its users leading…

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