A senior US senator called Wednesday for a federal investigation of credit rating agency Equifax after the company lost the personal data of 143 million customers to hackers.
Senator Mark Warner asked the Federal Trade Commission, one of the few bodies with oversight powers over loosely-regulated credit raters, to examine Equifax's security practices and its "widely-panned response" to consumers potentiallyRead more
Uber agreed to implement new data protection measures to settle complaints that it failed to prevent improper snooping on driver and customer information, officials said Tuesday.
The ridesharing giant had faced complaints that it allowed some employees to use the "God view" to monitor customer movements that could allow Uber managers to keep tabs on journalists investigating the ridesharing giant.Read more
US antitrust regulators approved ChemChina's takeover of Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta after requiring the Chinese company to sell three pesticides, the Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday.
The US agency required the divestitures to address a loss of competition over the herbicide paraquat and two other products in which the merger would have likely led to higher prices forRead more