January 7
FTC Chairman Joe Simons will participate in a fireside chat at the Consumer Technology Association policy forum titled "Insights with the FCC and FTC." Las Vegas, NV (Pacific Standard Time)
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will speak at the Chief Privacy Officer Roundtable titled "What Do Consumers Want?" Las Vegas, NV (Pacific Standard Time)
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will speak at the Consumer Technology Association policy forum titled "Insights with the FCC and FTC." Las Vegas, NV (Pacific Standard Time)
January 9
On January 9, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission held a public workshop to examine whether there is a sufficient legal basis and empirical economic support to promulgate a Commission Rule that would restrict the use of non-compete clauses in employer-employee employment contracts....
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will deliver keynote remarks at the FTC Workshop titled "Non-Competes in the Workplace: Examining Antitrust and Consumer Protection Issues." 600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC
January 13
FTC Commissioner Noah Joshua Phillips will participate in a fireside chat at the TechFreedom privacy forum titled, “Will Children’s Privacy Break the Internet?” U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center, 110 Maryland Ave., NE, Washington, DC
January 16
FTC Commissioner Christine S. Wilson will deliver the keynote address at the Council for Affordable Health Coverage conference titled, “The Price of Good Health: 2020 and Beyond.” International Spy Museum, 700 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC
January 22
FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra will speak on a panel on global innovation and regulation at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. Davos Congress Centre, Talstrasse 49a, Davos Platz, Switzerland. The event will be livestreamed at https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-...
Commission Meeting Closed to the Public: Consideration of a nonpublic law enforcement matter, 3:00 PM EDT at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20580. The vote to close the meeting for the law enforcement matter was 5-0. Expected to attend the closed meeting are the...
January 23
FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra will speak on a panel on safeguards in the digital world at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. Davos Congress Centre, Talstrasse 49a, Davos Platz, Switzerland. The event will be livestreamed at https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-...
January 24
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter keynote speaker at UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, “Algorithmic Criminal Justice” Symposium. Los Angeles, CA 4:00PM (Pacific Standard Time)
January 28
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...
January 29
The FTC, Veterans Administration and U.S. Postal Inspection Service co-host a webinar on identity theft, tax identity theft, and government imposter scams, how to protect yourself, and how to recover if fraud happens to you. The program – open to the public – will include scam...
