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3:32pm, 6th May, 2019

U.S. lawmakers criticize potential Facebook settlement with FTC

Two U.S. senators on Monday criticized reported plans for a Federal Trade Commission settlement with Facebook Inc for misuse of consumers' personal data, saying that top officials, potentially including founder Mark Zuckerberg, must be held pers...

Facebook settlement with U.S. may include privacy oversight: Politico

10:16pm, 1st May, 2019

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Facebook settlement with U.S. may include privacy oversight: Politico

Facebook Inc and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company to create an independent privacy oversight committee and take other steps to safeguard users, Politico reported on Wednesday, cit...

U.S. top court jeopardizes Google settlement in internet privacy case

12:59pm, 20th March, 2019

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U.S. top court jeopardizes Google settlement in internet privacy case

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday put in jeopardy an $8.5 million settlement Google has agreed to pay to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating a federal privacy law by sharing users' search queries with other web...

U.S. Supreme Court divided over Google privacy settlement

12:40pm, 31st October, 2018

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U.S. Supreme Court divided over Google privacy settlement

U.S. Supreme Court justices, in an internet privacy case involving Google, disagreed on Wednesday over whether to rein in a form of settlement in class action lawsuits that awards money to charities and other third parties instead of to people affect...

Tesla's Musk mocks SEC as judge demands they justify fraud settlement

10:16pm, 4th October, 2018

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Tesla's Musk mocks SEC as judge demands they justify fraud settlement

Tesla Inc's Elon Musk on Thursday mocked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, just hours after a federal judge ordered him and the regulator to justify their securities fraud settlement, which let Musk remain chief executive.

Judge tells Tesla, SEC to justify settlement of fraud lawsuit

1:53pm, 4th October, 2018

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Judge tells Tesla, SEC to justify settlement of fraud lawsuit

A New York district court judge has asked Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide a joint statement by Oct. 11, explaining why their settlement should be approved.

SEC’s focus on U.S. corporate bosses pays off with Musk settlement

7:42pm, 30th September, 2018

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SEC’s focus on U.S. corporate bosses pays off with Musk settlement

A high-profile settlement with Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk exemplifies a recent push by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to go after executives and not just their companies, securities law experts said.

Musk to resign as Tesla chairman, remain as CEO in SEC settlement

6:30pm, 29th September, 2018

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Musk to resign as Tesla chairman, remain as CEO in SEC settlement

Tesla and Elon Musk have agreed to pay $20 million each to financial regulators and the billionaire will step down as the company's chairman but remain as chief executive, under a settlement that caps a tumultuous two months for the car-maker.

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

1:51pm, 21st August, 2018

Space

Fresh findings about water ice at moon’s poles boost prospects for lunar settlement

The image shows the distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right), detected by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument. Blue represents the ice locations, plotted over an image of the lunar surface, where the gra...

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

11:51am, 6th July, 2018

Space

Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement

A.C. Charania, Blue Origin’s business development director, addresses the NewSpace conference with a picture of his company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, looming in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amaz...