May12
Hispanic Consumer Outreach Forum
The FTC and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime hosted a workshop on strategies for effective and high-impact education and enforcement to protect Hispanic consumers from...
We regularly host workshops, webinars, social media chats, conferences, and other events on topics related to our mission to protect consumers and promote competition. Examples include our annual PrivacyCon and Microeconomics conferences and workshops on vertical mergers, voice cloning, and identity theft. Find information on past and future FTC events and speaking engagements involving FTC officials.
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Apr19
Monitoring Software on Your PC: Spyware, Adware and Other Software
The FTC hosted a public workshop to explore the issues associated with the distribution and effects of software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their...
Apr16
Health Care Information and Competition conference
This quasi-academic conference, organized by Stanford health economist Dan Kessler, brought together academics and health policy makers to examine the production of and use of health care market...
Apr15
Ideas into Action: Implementing Reform of the Patent System
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The FTC, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology co-sponsored a conference to address patent reform and how it might be implemented. The event brought...
Feb17
FTC/DOJ Joint Workshop on Merger Enforcement
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This three-day workshop brought together prominent practitioners, academics and enforcement officials to discuss the Horizontal Merger Guidelines. The workshop explored state-of-the-art application of...
Oct29
Marketing Violent Entertainment To Children: A Workshop on Industry Self-Regulation
The FTC hosted a public workshop to examine issues relating to the marketing of violent entertainment to children. The workshop provided a forum for discussing the state of self-regulation in the...
Feb26
Health Care and Competition Law and Policy Hearings
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The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice will commence public hearings in Washington, D.C. on February 26, 2003 on the implications of competition law and policy for health care...
Sep09
Green Lights & Red Flags: FTC Rules of the Road for Advertisers
The FTC and regional experts gathered for a "back to basics" workshop about complying with truth-in-advertising laws. Sponsored by the FTC, the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, and six regional...
Sep04
Roundtable with Former Directors of the Bureau of Economics
The roundtable commemorates the 100th anniversary of the FTC's predecessor agency, the Bureau of Corporations. It was sponsored by the FTC's Bureau of Economics (BE) and focused on BE history and...
Jun18
Information Flows: Costs and Benefits Related To the Collection and Use of Consumer Information
The FTC hosted a public workshop to examine the costs and benefits to consumers and businesses of the collection and use of consumer information. In order to facilitate closer examination of the...
Jun04
Technologies for Protecting Personal Information (Workshop 2: The Business Experience)
The workshops focused on the role technology plays for both consumers and businesses. Consumers may have more technologies available to help them protect their personal information, but it is unclear...
May14
Technologies for Protecting Personal Information (Workshop 1: The Consumer Experience)
The workshops focused on the role technology plays for both consumers and businesses. Consumers may have more technologies available to help them protect their personal information, but it is unclear...
Apr30
FTC Spam Forum
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The FTC hosted a public forum to explore the issues regarding the proliferation of and potential solutions to unsolicited commercial email ("UCE" or "spam"). The forum also looked at how the unique...
Feb19
Public/Private Partnerships to Combat Cross-Border Fraud
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The FTC held a public workshop on how to build public/private partnerships to combat cross-border fraud against consumers. The workshop explored how the private and public sectors can work together to...
Jan14
Green Lights & Red Flags: FTC Rules of the Road for Advertisers
The FTC and regional experts gathered for a "back to basics" workshop about complying with truth-in-advertising laws. Sponsored by the FTC, the Electronic Retailing Association, the Promotional...
Nov19
Workshop on Deception in Weight Loss Advertising
The FTC held a workshop to explore alternate approaches to reducing deceptive claims in advertising for weight-loss products. Following up on the issuance of the FTC staff report, Weight-Loss...
Feb02
Competition and IP Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy Hearings
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A series of FTC and DOJ hearings.
Oct08
Possible Anticompetitive Efforts to Restrict Competition on the Internet
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The FTC hosted a public workshop to explore how certain state regulations and private business practices may be having significantly anticompetitive effects on e-commerce. Some private estimates...
Sep09
Workshop on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy
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The FTC held a public workshop on the implications of competition law and policy for health care financing and delivery. The workshop considered the impact of competition law and policy on the cost...
Jun03
FTC Merger Best Practices
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The FTC held a series of public workshops regarding modifications and improvements to the Commission's merger investigations process and its use of specific remedy provisions. The Commission used this...
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