Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – America’s consumer protection agency – will mark its annual Identity Theft Awareness Week with a series of free events focused on how identity theft affects people and ways to reduce risk from Monday, January 30, 2023, to Friday, February 3, 2023, according…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In January 2023, the White House announced new actions to increase fairness in the rental market that align with its “Blueprint for a Renters Bill of Rights” that the Biden-Harris Administration simultaneously released to, among other things, ensure tenant background checks are legal, fair, and non-discriminatory. The Blueprint…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule that would ban employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers, “a widespread and often exploitative practice that suppresses wages, hampers innovation, and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses,” according to an FTC press release. The…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 19, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it secured agreements requiring a video game maker to pay $520 million in relief over allegations the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and deployed “dark patterns” to trick players into making unintentional purchases. According…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – the nation’s consumer protection agency – has released the final agenda for its seventh annual PrivacyCon event which will take place online starting at 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, according to a press release from the FTC. PrivacyCon…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is calling for research presentations on a wide range of privacy and data security topics such as commercial surveillance and automated decision making for its seventh annual PrivacyCon 2022 event that will take place virtually on November 1, 2022. PrivacyCon 2022 will bring…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In May 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a microblogging and social networking service with allegedly violating a 2011 FTC order that prohibited the company from misrepresenting privacy and security practices and ordered it to pay a $150 million…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On May 5, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – two U.S. government agencies that enforce the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) – filed an amicus brief in a class action lawsuit that argued the FCRA does not distinguish between…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released statistics from the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2021 that shows consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70 percent over the previous year, according to a press release from…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed that would-be lovers reported losing a staggering $1.3 billion in the past five years and a record $547 million in 2021 to “romance scams” that are committed during online dating which creates opportunities for…
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