The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a report denouncing how social media companies collect and profit off user data, calling their practices a "vast surveillance" program. “While lucrative ...

The FTC initially ordered Amazon ... Reddit and Discord. The report found that companies engaged in “vast surveillance” by collecting and retaining personal information about consumers ...

Artificial intelligence-enabled product review platform Sitejabber agreed to a 10-year compliance monitorship with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following allegations that it inflated product ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WWLP)– The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its annual report to Congress on fraud among older adults. The report included the latest fraud trends, FTC cases and ...

The FTC issued a final rule aimed at curtailing predatory subscription models. © Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Companies will soon have to make it as easy to cancel a ...

Last year, we wrote about the FTC’s proposal to massively expand the Negative Option Rule to cover any goods or services involving a negative option or automatic renewal plan, including free ...

"Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription," FTC Commission Chair Lina Khan said in a news release. "The FTC's rule will end these tricks and traps ...

The FTC first took action in 2020 against Credit Karma, the credit-monitoring and finance app acquired in 2020 by financial software giant Intuit. The FTC accused the service of misleading ...

"Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement following the announcement. "The FTC's rule will end these ...

The FTC received an average of 21 complaints per day about this issue in 2021, the agency has written. The number was 70 per day by 2024. The Biden administration began working on this policy in ...