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FTC to Host Cloud Computing Discussion on May 11

Date

May 10, 2023

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will host a virtual panel discussion with a diverse set of experts to discuss the business practices of cloud computing providers including issues related to...

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FTC to Host Virtual Panel Discussion on Cloud Computing, Extends Comment Deadline

Date

May 4, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a virtual panel discussion on May 11, 2023 with a diverse set of experts to discuss the business practices of cloud computing providers including issues related...

Press Release

FTC Seeks Comment on Business Practices of Cloud Computing Providers that Could Impact Competition and Data Security

Date

March 22, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission staff are seeking information on the business practices of cloud computing providers including issues related to the market power of these companies, impact on competition...

Press Release

FTC Launches New Office of Technology to Bolster Agency’s Work

Date

February 17, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission today launched a new Office of Technology that will strengthen the FTC’s ability to keep pace with technological challenges in the digital marketplace by supporting the...

Technology Blog

Consumer Facing Applications: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI

Date

April 24, 2024

The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI 1 convened three panels that highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and consumer-facing applications. This third...

Technology Blog

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

Date

April 17, 2024

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

Date

April 17, 2024

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

Date

April 8, 2024

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...

Technology Blog

Government Agencies Act to Elevate and Build Tech and Digital Capacity

Date

March 26, 2024

The FTC’s Office of Technology (“OT”) was founded in 2023 with the purpose of strengthening and supporting law enforcement investigations and actions, advising and engaging with FTC staff and the...

Technology Blog

Best Practices in Building Tech Capacity in Law Enforcement Agencies

Date

March 26, 2024

It is increasingly important to use existing legal and enforcement tools in digital and technology cases and develop and implement new or updated tools and approaches to strengthen investigations and...

Technology Blog

Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book

Date

March 14, 2024

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...

Technology Blog

AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive

Date

February 13, 2024

You may have heard that “data is the new oil”—in other words, data is the critical raw material that drives innovation in tech and business, and like oil, it must be collected at a massive scale and...

Technology Blog

A few key principles: An excerpt from Chair Khan’s Remarks at the January Tech Summit on AI

Date

February 8, 2024

At the FTC’s Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Chair Khan previewed how the FTC is using its experience and expertise to establish rules of the road for AI. In her remarks , she noted that “as...

Technology Blog

Keeping Your Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) Promises

Date

February 1, 2024

A look into multi-party computation and oblivious proxies The landscape of digital privacy is constantly evolving as companies and researchers implement new methods to enhance user privacy. For...

Technology Blog

Tick, Tick, Tick. Office of Technology’s Summit on AI

Date

January 18, 2024

The launch of OT coincided with another type of technology’s rapid growth: Artificial Intelligence. And, on January 25th, OT will hold the FTC Tech Summit on AI to lead discussions among individuals...

Technology Blog

AI Companies: Uphold Your Privacy and Confidentiality Commitments

Date

January 9, 2024

Data is at the heart of AI development. Developing AI models can be a resource intensive process, requiring large amounts of data and compute, [1] and not all companies have the capacity to develop...

Technology Blog

Interoperability, Privacy, & Security

Date

December 21, 2023

In the face of concerns about anticompetitive conduct, companies may claim privacy and security reasons as justifications for refusing to have their products and services interoperate with other...

Jan25

Event

FTC Tech Summit

January 25, 2024 | 12:00PM - 4:30PM

The FTC’s Office of Technology is hosting the FTC Tech Summit with the goal of facilitating a dialogue amid a dynamic innovation landscape. This half-day virtual summit is focused on artificial...

Technology Blog

Preventing the Harms of AI-enabled Voice Cloning

Date

November 16, 2023

Today, the FTC is announcing the Voice Cloning Challenge to address the present and emerging harms of artificial intelligence- or “AI”-enabled voice cloning technologies. Speech synthesis has been...

Nov16

Event

Open Commission Meeting -November 16, 2023

November 16, 2023 | 11:00AM - 1:00PM

Business Before the Commission: Voice Cloning Challenge Announcement and Presentation on Public Comments on Business Practices of Cloud Computing Providers.

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