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Data Spotlight

Who’s who in scams: a spring roundup

Emma Fletcher
Scammers are all about spinning lies, but they still operate in the real world. Many scammers pretend to be well-known businesses to gain trust and make their stories seem more believable. [1] , [2
Competition Matters

Slow the Roll-up: Help Shine a Light on Serial Acquisitions

Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition
Most of the talk about dealmaking and antitrust enforcement focuses on large deals involving large companies. That’s because every year, the antitrust agencies get notice of larger deals—those
Business Blog

Safeguards Rule notification requirement now in effect

Lesley Fair
If your business is covered by the FTC’s Gramm-Leach Bliley Safeguards Rule, an amendment to the Rule that requires covered companies to report certain data breaches and other security events to the
Technology Blog

Cars & Consumer Data: On Unlawful Collection & Use

Staff in the Office of Technology and The Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
Some say the car a person drives can say a lot about them. As cars get “connected,” this turns out to be truer than many people might have realized. While connectivity can let drivers do things like
Technology Blog

Data and Models: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI

Staff in the Office of Technology
The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI [1] convened three panels that each highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. This
Technology Blog

Security Principles: Addressing Vulnerabilities Systematically

The Office of Technology
For more than two decades, the FTC has been bringing enforcement actions for violations of national consumer protection laws due to companies’ poor security practices. These poor practices have
Technology Blog

Approaches to Address AI-enabled Voice Cloning

FTC’s Office of Technology
Today, the FTC announced four winners of the Voice Cloning Challenge, which was launched to address the present and emerging harms of artificial intelligence, or “AI”-enabled voice cloning
Data Spotlight

Impersonation scams: not what they used to be

Scams that impersonate well-known businesses and government agencies are consistently among the top frauds reported to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network. [1] In 2023, data from the FTC alone show
Technology Blog

Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book

Staff in the Office of Technology
The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI [1] highlighted three panels that reflect different layers of the AI tech stack – hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. Today, we
Business Blog

“Love Stinks” – when a scammer is involved

Lesley Fair
"I've had the blues, the reds, and the pinks. One thing’s for sure: Love stinks." Far be it from us to criticize love on Valentine’s Day, but “Love Stinks” – the 80s hit by the J. Geils Band –