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FTC Report Warns About Using Artificial Intelligence to Combat Online Problems
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Today the Federal Trade Commission issued a report to Congress warning about using artificial intelligence (AI) to combat online problems and urging policymakers to exercise “great caution” about...
New Analysis Finds Consumers Reported Losing More than $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency to Scams since 2021
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Consumers reported losing over $1 billion to fraud involving cryptocurrencies from January 2021 through March 2022, according to a new analysis from the Federal Trade Commission. Fraud reports suggest...
FTC Finds Huge Surge in Consumer Reports about Losing Money To Scams Initiated Through Social Media
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Consumers in 2021 reported losing about $770 million to fraud initiated on social media—about one fourth of all reported fraud losses for the year and an 18-fold increase from 2017, according to the...
FTC Alleges Facebook Resorted to Illegal Buy-or-Bury Scheme to Crush Competition After String of Failed Attempts to Innovate
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Today, the Federal Trade Commission filed an amended complaint against Facebook in the agency’s ongoing federal antitrust case. The complaint alleges that after repeated failed attempts to develop...
FTC Gives Final Approval to Modify FTC’s 2012 Privacy Order with Facebook with Provisions from 2019 Settlement
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In response to the federal court’s recent action, the Federal Trade Commission has formally approved amendments to its 2012 privacy order with Facebook to include the provisions that were incorporated...
FTC Grants Final Approval to Settlement with Former Cambridge Analytica CEO, App Developer over Allegations they Deceived Consumers over Collection of Facebook Data
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The Federal Trade Commission has granted final approval to a settlement with the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, LLC and an app developer who worked with the company to resolve allegations they...
FTC Issues Opinion and Order Against Cambridge Analytica For Deceiving Consumers About the Collection of Facebook Data, Compliance with EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
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The Federal Trade Commission issued an Opinion finding that the data analytics and consulting company Cambridge Analytica, LLC engaged in deceptive practices to harvest personal information from tens...
FTC Imposes $5 Billion Penalty and Sweeping New Privacy Restrictions on Facebook
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NOTE: The FTC hosted an IN-PERSON press conference at FTC Headquarters, 600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington D.C., on July 24, 2019. Watch archival video of the press conference. Participants included...
FTC Sues Cambridge Analytica, Settles with Former CEO and App Developer
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The Federal Trade Commission filed an administrative complaint against data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, and filed settlements for public comment with Cambridge Analytica’s former chief...
Facebook Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises
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The social networking service Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then...
Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act ("TAKE IT DOWN Act")
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Consumer Protection
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Pub. L. 119-12
The TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalizes the publication of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions. It also requires covered platforms to: (1) create a process for consumers to notify covered platforms of...
Jun04
The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families
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The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop entitled "The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families" on June 4 at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C...
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