The Commission issued a statement authored by Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Commissioners Edith Ramirez, Julie Brill, and Maureen Ohlhausen.
"The Commission takes seriously its mandate to protect children's online privacy in this ever-changing technological landscape, " said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.
He also called on Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz to examine how this new technology fits in with existing consumer privacy regulations.
Federal Trade Commission Jon Leibowitz is on stage at the D: All Things Digital conference this morning, sitting down for an interview with Walt Mossberg.
"The record setting penalty in this matter sends a clear message to all companies under an FTC privacy order, " said Jon Leibowitz, Chairman of the FTC.
When Google was fined by the US Federal Trade Commission in 2012, chairman Jon Leibowitz said that all companies must "keep their privacy promises to customers".
Jon Leibowitz, chairman of America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC), is concerned by drugmakers filing frivolous additional patents on their products to put off the day when their protection expires.
Jon Leibowitz, the Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) met with Joaquin Almunia, the vice-president of the European Commission to discuss Google - the dominant company on today's Internet.
But in a recent conversation with The Wall Street Journal, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said the agency was interested in whether online companies obtain users' consent for changes in how they use data they collect.
Still, "all companies must abide by FTC orders against them and keep their privacy promises to consumers, or they will end up paying many times what it would have cost to comply in the first place, " FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said.
In a speech in April, Jon Leibowitz, an FTC commissioner, laid out an argument that such deals are bad. ( Click here to see the speech.) He presented it as a personal argument, not as the opinion of the FTC.
"Too many of these companies pick the last dollar out of consumers' pockets, and far from leaving them better off, push them deeper into debt, even bankruptcy, " says Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, in a statement describing the new rules.
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