Orchestrated telemarketing campaigns even impersonate government entities. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), supported by the Department of Justice, has filed a lawsuit to stop the operations of XCast…
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Judge Dismisses FTC Case Against Kochava, Inc
The court grants the FTC the opportunity to refile. Judge Lynn Winmill dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) lawsuit against Kochava, Inc., a data broker that makes money…
Read MoreFTC Stops Student Loan Debt Relief Schemes
Debt relief scams conned student borrowers out of millions. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has stopped two companies falsely claiming affiliation with the Department of Education and deceiving…
Read MoreFTC Claims Meta Violated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Facebook’s Messenger Kids app fails approved contact promise. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed new restrictions to prevent Meta from circulating data from minors, alleging that the company’s…
Read MoreFTC Permanently Bans Firms from Debt Relief After Scams
The defendants who defrauded credit card debtors must surrender assets. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) successfully sued operators of a credit card debt relief scheme that was located…
Read MorePresident’s Administration Warns Financial Firms of AI Risks
Decisions made with data sets can lead to more discrimination, not less The heads of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Justice Department’s civil rights unit, and the…
Read MoreFTC Issues Letters on Eyeglass Rule
Prescribers must provide prescriptions must be provided to patients. The Federal Trade Commission has issued cease and desist letters to thirty-seven eyeglass prescribers, including ophthalmologist and optometrists, alerting…
Read MoreFTC Takes Steps to Curb Foreign-Based Robocalls
“Project Point of No Entry” addresses internet service providers. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a new effort, called Project Point of No Entry, to stop illegal spam…
Read MoreFTC and DOJ Host Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Workshop
Officials hold a roundtable discussion about competition policy and agency organization. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) hosted a two-day workshop last week…
Read MoreFTC Finds Mastercard Violated Durbin Amendment
Order submitted to stop the company’s block of competing processing networks. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found Mastercard’s online business practices to be a violation of the…
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