Articles Tagged with ''FTC''

The rising use of biometric information has caused the FTC to issue a policy warning against the new technology and its potential misuse.

The FTC proposed to change a 2020 privacy order with Meta after the FTC alleges that the company has failed to fully comply with the order.

Online counseling service BetterHelp has received a proposed order from the FTC banning the company from sharing users' private health information.

The FTC released data regarding the common lies sold by romance scammers, whose scams cost nearly 70,000 consumers $1.3 billion in 2022.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning to Congress regarding the enterprise use of artificial intelligence (AI). Large companies and those in the tech industry using AI could be opening up users to risk, according to the report.

Identity theft and imposter scams were some of the top fraud techniques employed by scammers to defraud users out of $5.9 billion in 2021, according to data from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Scammers have used the COVID-19 pandemic to target fraud victims, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The agency has received over 292,000 reports of COVID-19 scams since the pandemic began.

AT&T is the first wireless carrier to block robocalls after a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling paved the way for cell phone carriers to do so.