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PC World April 2004 Liane Cassavoy	Bye-Bye, Pop-Ups. Hello...? Pop-up ads, those reviled windows that intrude on your Web surfing, seem to be on the decline. But don't celebrate yet: New forms of advertising that may be just as annoying and even more intrusive are likely to replace them.
InternetNews August 15, 2006 Clint Boulton	FTC, AG Sue to Stuff Alleged Pop-up Scheme The Federal Trade Commission and the Washington state Attorney General have sued to halt an operation that barrages consumers with pop-up advertising and demands money to make the pop-ups cease.
Knowledge@Wharton August 13, 2003	Darn Those Pop-Up Ads! They're Maddening, But Do They Work? E-commerce experts at Wharton and elsewhere say pop-ups are not universally loathed and irrevocably worthless. But collectively they can indeed be a nuisance.
InternetNews February 21, 2007 Roy Mark	FTC Tags Site Again for Deceptive Ads Consumerinfo.com pays $300,000 to settle charges for deceptive advertising practices. This follows a $950,000 fine a year ago.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Internet Pretexter Dials Up FTC Settlement Deal bars Information Search from pretexting and selling consumers' personal phone records.
Entrepreneur February 2004 Melissa Campanelli	A Pop-Up Victory Competitors' ads could muscle in on your Web site.
InternetNews January 26, 2004 Zachary Rodgers	IE Pop-up Blocker Defaults to "Off" Silence the pop-up death knells. With the beta release of the service pack 2 update for IE, the news is there's no news.
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Diet Patch Spammers Settle With FTC Court rejects their claim that only affiliate marketers should be held responsible.
InternetNews November 6, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges.
InternetNews August 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Site Settles Deceptive Credit Report Claims FTC imposes a $950,000 fine and requires consumer restitution from Consumerinfo.com, which misled consumers with promises of a free credit report.
InternetNews December 29, 2003 Janis Mara	Display Ads Back From the Dead Perceptions of a decline in online display ads may be misleading.
InternetNews September 14, 2006 Roy Mark	'Lonely Housewives' Reach FTC Settlement A spam scam promising dates with lonely, if not quite desperate, housewives is among the latest unsolicited bulk e-mail schemes halted today by the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews September 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operation Fined $2M A spyware operation that promised protection from viruses and spam but instead installed malware agreed today to pay a $2 million fine to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges of false and deceptive practices.
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Pursues Former Spam King in Court The Federal Trade Commission filed its first spyware case Thursday against the man once known as the undisputed king of spam and the various companies he controls.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers.
InternetNews September 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	FTC Alert on InternetALERT Federal Trade Commission officials say Bonzi Software's protection against phishing and virus falls short on its promises.
InternetNews November 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Group Raises Zango's FTC Commitment Issues A new complaint filed with the FTC claims Zango issued a misleading statement.
Search Engine Watch July 17, 2001 Danny Sullivan	Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies...
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Zango Settles FTC Adware Charges The controversial adware distributor agrees to pay $3 million and provide consumer consent notices.
InternetNews January 26, 2004 Janis Mara	MSN Toolbar Bops Pop-Ups, Works Search Microsoft Corp. launched a beta version of its MSN Toolbar offering easier access to its services including e-mail and search, as well as a customizable pop-up ad blocker, on Monday.
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Stephen Baker	Pop-Up Ads Had Better Start Pleasing With the means to block them on the rise, their last hope is to entice, rather than irritate
InternetNews January 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feds Hit Porn E-Mail Ring With Can Spam Law Armed with new rules to supplement the Can Spam Act, the Federal Trade Commission has won a court order to temporarily halt a pornography-related spam ring that stretches from Las Vegas to Latvia.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operators Settles With FTC Two notorious spyware operators settled charges Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission.
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Slaps Spammer With Record Fine The Federal Trade Commission Thursday hit Internet marketer Jumpstart Technologies with a $900,000 civil fine for violating the CAN-SPAM Act, the largest penalty to date for a violation of the two-year-old law.
PC World October 2, 2001 Rick Perera	New Tool Fuels Battle of the Banner Ads AdKey's software allows Web sites to lock out users who use apps that block banners and pop-up ads...
PC World February 2004 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Gain Extra Protection With Adware Scanner Secrets Put the extra features of Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware to work for you.
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan	AdBlock Plus Defers To External Review Board To Choose "Acceptable Ads" Allowing an independent board to review and choose acceptable ads should make the playing field fairer for advertisers.
InternetNews August 4, 2005 Roy Mark	Settlement in the Air at Time Warner The media giant set aside $3 billion to settle class action suits with shareholders upset about the merger with AOL. Hours later, the FTC announced that a subsidiary of AOL settled charges for not disclosing the true nature of bundled adware.
PC Magazine November 14, 2007 John C. Dvorak	In-Your-Face Advertising One thing is certain: Web users don't want to pay for anything, ever. Sadly, the only way that equation works is with advertising.
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark	L.A. Court Shuts Down Spyware Op The Federal Trade Commission seeks a permanent injunction and victim restitution for Los Angeles-based spyware scheme.
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InternetNews October 31, 2007 Lyle Deixler	Privacy Groups Seek 'Do Not Call' List for Web Ads Consumer privacy groups are pushing for increased regulatory oversight of online advertising, including a "Do Not Track" registry that would ban companies from tracking online users and targeting ads based on their activities.
InternetNews May 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Hustler Hit With $4M Penalty Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.
InternetNews January 13, 2009 Judy Mottl	FTC Petition Asks for Mobile Data Scrutiny Advertising industry claims self regulation works for protecting consumer privacy.
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InternetNews January 8, 2004 Janis Mara	MSN's New Appeal to Users and Advertisers In its latest version, the ISP goes for user experience, but it's giving advertisers new goodies, too.
InternetNews March 11, 2004 Roy Mark	Washington Beefs Up Can Spam The two powerful federal agencies empowered as the whip hand of the Can Spam Act began the process Thursday of fully implementing the United States' first national law aimed at curbing unsolicited bulk e-mail.
PC World June 19, 2007 Stephen Manes	Web Ads: A Cat-and-Mouse Game Overrun by ads? New software is better at exterminating them.
Information Today July 8, 2002 Richard W. Wiggins	FTC Warns Search Engine Companies Responding to a 2001 accusation by a consumer watchdog group that search engine companies engaged in deceptive advertising by failing to clearly label favorable links on hit lists, the Federal Trade Commission sent a letter to seven companies suggesting that they alter their behavior.
InternetNews June 5, 2009 Michelle Megna	Digg to Debut Ads Based on Your Vote Digg announces new advertising based on community votes.
Information Today January 14, 2013 George H. Pike	Google Reaches Settlements With FTC Over Search, Patent Practices On Jan. 3, 2013, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Google reached a series of agreements that closed the FTC's investigation into several of Google's business practices, in return for Google's agreement to modify those practices.
InternetNews March 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Planning a TV Ad Takeover? Google is currently running a trial of test ads on cable as part of its larger plan to move into television advertising.
InternetNews June 17, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Twilight for the Phishermen The FTC puts two Internet scamsters out of business.
InternetNews December 20, 2007	FTC Gives OK to Google/DoubleClick The Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday it approved Google's proposed $3.1 billion purchase of advertising rival DoubleClick.
InternetNews November 13, 2006 Roy Mark	Court Shutters Spyware Operation FTC claims millions of unwanted and unsolicited software downloaded without user permission.
Search Engine Watch January 14, 2004 Christine Churchill	Day of Reckoning in Search Engine Advertising Overture's announcement that it plans to separate contextual advertising from regular keyword-based search results and ads has garnered kudos from the search engine marketing community. Will Google follow suit?
InternetNews February 13, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Advocates Blast FTC Guidelines on Web Privacy Agency refreshes self-regulatory best practices for behavioral targeting as privacy advocates call for tougher stance.
Entrepreneur March 2006 Catherine Seda	One Last Thing Want to annoy customers who visit your website? Use an entry pop-up. Want them to stay or come back later? Try a well-timed exit pop-up.
InternetNews May 1, 2007 Lisa Nadile	Report: Microsoft to Buy 24/7 Rumors circulated today that Microsoft is in talks to buy 24/7 Media, an online advertising and search-engine marketing company.