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Approaches to Address AI-enabled Voice Cloning

Date

April 8, 2024

Today, the FTC announced four winners of the Voice Cloning Challenge, which was launched to address the present and emerging harms of artificial intelligence, or “AI”-enabled voice cloning...

Business Blog

FTC announces winners of Voice Cloning Challenge – and has a word or two for businesses

Date

April 8, 2024

Voice cloning: A boon for people with medical issues or an AI-enabled bonanza for scammers? The answer depends on who’s using the technology and how they’re using it. That’s why the FTC is taking a...

Technology Blog

Government Agencies Act to Elevate and Build Tech and Digital Capacity

Date

March 26, 2024

The FTC’s Office of Technology (“OT”) was founded in 2023 with the purpose of strengthening and supporting law enforcement investigations and actions, advising and engaging with FTC staff and the...

Technology Blog

Best Practices in Building Tech Capacity in Law Enforcement Agencies

Date

March 26, 2024

It is increasingly important to use existing legal and enforcement tools in digital and technology cases and develop and implement new or updated tools and approaches to strengthen investigations and...

Mar25

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Reinvigorating Antitrust: Citizens, not just Consumers: A conversation between Lina Khan and Daron Acemoglu

March 25, 2024 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM

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...

Technology Blog

Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book

Date

March 14, 2024

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

Revised rule and proposed amendment expand the fight against illegal telemarketing

Date

March 7, 2024

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

Date

March 6, 2024

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

Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing

Date

March 1, 2024

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...

Business Blog

PrivacyCon looks at latest research into AI, mobile device security, health privacy, deepfakes, and more

Date

February 27, 2024

If there were a bingo board that included just about every privacy and data security issue on the minds of consumers, academics, businesses, and government agencies, the FTC’s eight annual PrivacyCon...

Business Blog

FTC says Avast promised privacy, but pirated consumers’ data for treasure

Date

February 22, 2024

When uttered by a pirate, “Avast!” is a nautical term for “Listen up and cut it out.” And when the FTC says “Avast!” to software company Avast, it means the same thing. UK-based Avast Limited told...

Business Blog

New Impersonator Rule gives FTC a powerful tool for protecting consumers and businesses

Date

February 15, 2024

To turn the old adage on its head, imitation is the insincerest form of falsity. After years of fighting back against scammers who impersonate government agencies and companies, the FTC proposed a...

Technology Blog

AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive

Date

February 13, 2024

You may have heard that “data is the new oil”—in other words, data is the critical raw material that drives innovation in tech and business, and like oil, it must be collected at a massive scale and...

Technology Blog

A few key principles: An excerpt from Chair Khan’s Remarks at the January Tech Summit on AI

Date

February 8, 2024

At the FTC’s Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Chair Khan previewed how the FTC is using its experience and expertise to establish rules of the road for AI. In her remarks, she noted that “as we...

Business Blog

FloatMe claimed to rescue consumers struggling to keep their heads above water, but left many without a lifeline

Date

January 24, 2024

For consumers already underwater financially and desperate for just $50, cash advance company FloatMe’s services turned out to be more sink than swim. According to the FTC, the subscription-based...

Technology Blog

Tick, Tick, Tick. Office of Technology’s Summit on AI

Date

January 18, 2024

The launch of OT coincided with another type of technology’s rapid growth: Artificial Intelligence. And, on January 25th, OT will hold the FTC Tech Summit on AI to lead discussions among individuals...

Technology Blog

AI Companies: Uphold Your Privacy and Confidentiality Commitments

Date

January 9, 2024

Data is at the heart of AI development. Developing AI models can be a resource intensive process, requiring large amounts of data and compute, [1] and not all companies have the capacity to develop...

Business Blog

FTC Voice Cloning Challenge submissions are due by January 12th

Date

January 8, 2024

Thanks to improvements in text-to-speech AI, voice cloning holds promise for consumers, but scammers often find a way to twist tech advancements for their nefarious purposes – and voice cloning is no...

Business Blog

The DNA of privacy and the privacy of DNA

Date

January 5, 2024

Companies selling genetic testing products tout the benefits of DNA-based insights – learning more about health, lineage, family tree – so that consumers can seek medical attention, customize their...

Business Blog

Coming face to face with Rite Aid’s allegedly unfair use of facial recognition technology

Date

December 19, 2023

Rite Aid has “used facial recognition technology in its retail stores without taking reasonable steps to address the risks that its deployment of such technology was likely to result in harm to...

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