The Federal Trade Commission is looking at setting guidelines on behavioral targeting, which is when ads on an internet site are based on the internet habits of that site’s user. Behavioral targeting uses companies that track the internet activities of potential consumers, which raises privacy questions.

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The normally somnolent Federal Trade Commission has decided to scrutinize the price of oil. Typically, looking at the supply and price of oil often imported from OPEC nations is the job of the Commodities Future Trading Commission. 

But as the Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Hughes reports, the energy ...

Deborah Platt Majoras seems to have skirted the stereotype for pro-business regulators in the Bush administration.  As John R. Wilke describes her legacy in the Wall Street Journal, Majoras, who chaired the commission, coordinated a balanced approach to the Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing consumer protection laws.  ...