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Business Blog
FTC Privacy and Security Update: What your business needs to know
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Business executives, tech professionals, and the attorneys who represent them need to stay current on what’s happened – and what’s happening – at the FTC when it comes to privacy and data security...
Apr24
Informal Hearing on Proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees – April 24, 2024
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The FTC will hold an informal hearing the proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees, to take oral and documentary submissions from hearing participants. The Honorable Jay L. Himes...
Apr01
FTC staff join NAAG Consumer Protection Quarterly: No Fooling: How to Spot and Avoid Imposter Scams
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For another year running, imposter scams are the top-reported scam to the Federal Trade Commission. On April 1 at 2pm ET, join FTC experts to talk data, advice, and enforcement about the latest trends...
Mar25
Reinvigorating Antitrust: Citizens, not just Consumers: A conversation between Lina Khan and Daron Acemoglu
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Chair Khan will participate in a conversation with Daron Acemoglu on the role of antitrust as a tool to check corporate power, what economics is interesting and useful to regulators dealing with power...
Nov14
Seventeenth Annual Microeconomics Conference
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The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 17th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 14 and 15, 2024 in...
Business Blog
Small business people are among those getting $100 million back due to FTC action challenging Benefytt Technologies’ sham health plans
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Finding healthcare coverage can be a challenge for many Americans, including gig workers, the self-employed, and people at small businesses. So when consumers were looking for health insurance under...
Mar21
Scheduling Conference in the Matter of H&R Block, Inc. et al
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Administrative Law Judge Jay L. Himes will direct a scheduling conference in the matter of In re H&R Block, Inc. et al., Docket 9427. The event is open to the public.
Business Blog
Time lapse? $33 million FTC damages settlement with Biz2Credit addresses deceptive claims to small businesses about average processing time for loans
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For small businesses struggling to stay afloat during COVID, time was of the essence. When help materialized in the form of the emergency Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) administered by the Small...
Business Blog
Breakdown in the “Fast Lane”: FTC challenges Womply’s promise to get small businesses PPP loans fast
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Tick. Tick. Tick. For small business owners, gig workers, and freelancers fighting for survival during the pandemic, every day that passed without essential capital put their futures at risk. So when...
Mar21
Open Commission Meeting- March 21, 2024
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Business before the Commission: Presentation on the Telemarketing Sales Rule Amendments and Supply Chain Report
Technology Blog
Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book
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The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI [1] highlighted three panels that reflect different layers of the AI tech stack – hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. Today, we...
Business Blog
Donation vexation: FTC and 10 States challenge cancer “charity” as a sham
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Think about the two women across from you in the office. Now consider the sobering statistic that of those two women, one will battle cancer in her lifetime. The bad news gets worse when you realize...
Mar13
The Future of American Innovation: A Conversation With Lina Khan
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Chair Khan will join Rana Foroohar, associate editor at the Financial Times, for a conversation on American innovation and national security. https://carnegieendowment.org/2024/03/13/future-of...
Business Blog
Revised rule and proposed amendment expand the fight against illegal telemarketing
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The FTC just announced final updates to the Telemarketing Sales Rule and there’s an important revision that will help protect small businesses from scammers making misrepresentations in B2B calls. But...
Business Blog
Ready, Set, PrivacyCon
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Where can you hear technology researchers discuss what’s new and what’s next in talked-about tech topics like AI, deepfakes, and health privacy? At the FTC’s eighth annual PrivacyCon. It starts this...
Business Blog
New energy cost comparisons for TVs: What’s going on behind the screens?
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There’s been a development in the world of television, but it has nothing to do with who’s starring or what’s streaming. It’s about an important consideration for consumers to keep in mind when...
Business Blog
Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
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Landlords and property managers can’t collude on rental pricing. Using new technology to do it doesn’t change that antitrust fundamental. Regardless of the industry you’re in, if your business uses an...
Apr02
Second Scams Against Older Adults Advisory Group Meeting
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As part of the Stop Senior Scams Act, the FTC brought together an advisory group of government partners, consumer advocates, and industry representatives to focus on ways to better identify and stop...
Mar06
Informal Hearing on Proposed Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials - March 6, 2024
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The FTC will hold an Informal Hearing the proposed Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials to take oral and documentary submissions from hearing participants. The...
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