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FTC Brings First Case Against Developers of “Stalking” Apps
Settlement resolves charges that Retina-X’s products created security vulnerability and violated consumers’ privacy
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FTC Requires Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Celgene Corporation to Divest Psoriasis Drug Otezla as a Condition of Acquisition
Pharmaceutical and biologic manufacturers Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, and Celgene Corporation have agreed to divest Celgene’s Otezla, the most popular oral treatment in the United States for moderate-to-severe psoriasis, for $13.4 billion. This divestiture would settle Federal Trade...
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FTC Criminal Liaison Unit Presents Award to USPIS Team Leader Lisa D. Mayberry
The Federal Trade Commission’s Criminal Liaison Unit honored Lisa D. Mayberry, a Team Leader in the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Los Angeles Division, with its 2019 Consumer Shield Award. The Criminal Liaison Unit (CLU) presents the award every two years to recognize a criminal investigator who...
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FTC Submits Comment in Favor of Massachusetts House Bill 1869, which would Expand Scope of Practice for Podiatrists
The Federal Trade Commission staff has submitted a comment to Massachusetts State Representative Paul Donato in support of a bill before the Massachusetts legislature, which would allow podiatrists to treat not just the foot, but also the lower leg. The FTC staff’s letter to Rep. Donato on House...
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FTC Testifies before House Judiciary Subcommittee On Competition Enforcement and Policy, Including in Technology Markets
In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law , the Federal Trade Commission described its enforcement and policy work to promote competition in U.S. markets, including high-priority efforts to address technology markets. Testifying on behalf of the FTC...
Coming Events
Dec
10
District Of Columbia
Accuracy in Consumer Reporting Workshop
The Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will host a public workshop on December 10, 2019 to discuss issues affecting the accuracy of both traditional credit reports and employment and tenant background screening reports.
Jan
28
District Of Columbia
You Don't Say: An FTC Workshop on Voice Cloning Technologies
On January 28, 2020, staff of the Federal Trade Commission will examine voice cloning technologies that enable users to make near-perfect reproductions of a real person’s voice. Advances in artificial intelligence and text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have allowed researchers to create a...
Jul
21
District Of Columbia
PrivacyCon 2020
The FTC will host its fifth annual PrivacyCon on July 21, 2020. For PrivacyCon 2020, the FTC is seeking research presentations on any topic related to consumer privacy and security. However, we will focus in particular on the privacy of health data collected, stored, and transmitted...Past Events
Nov
15
Cmr. Slaughter participates in moderated luncheon at 11th Annual Berkeley-Georgetown Conference on Patent Law & Policy
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will participate in a moderated luncheon at the 11th Annual Berkeley-Georgetown Conference on Patent Law & Policy. Georgetown University Law School, 600 New Jersey Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Nov
15
District Of Columbia
Twelfth Annual Federal Trade Commission Microeconomics Conference
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale will host a two-day conference to bring together scholars working in areas related to the FTC's antitrust, consumer protection, and public policy missions. Those fields include...
Nov
14
District Of Columbia
