The Federal Trade Commission approved a final order settling its complaint against Rytr for selling an artificial intelligence “Testimonial & Review” service. The regulator alleged that Rytr violated the FTC Act by providing subscribers to this service with a means to generate false and deceptive...
Grubhub will pay $25 million and make several changes to its operations to settle charges that it violated consumer protection and competition laws. The proposed settlement covers charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Illinois attorney general, the FTC said in a Tuesday...
The FTC has unveiled a rule blocking “bait-and-switch” pricing for hotels and concert tickets. Such tactics, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday (Dec. 17) are used by the live-event ticketing and short-term lodging sectors to mask total prices and hide junk fees. “People deserve to know up-front...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning consumers about a “massive jump” in a form of online job scams called “task scams.” The FTC received 20,000 consumer reports about task scams in the first half of 2024 — a figure that was up from 5,000 in...
November 06, 2024
If the past few months have shown us anything it’s that the frictions between the regulators and the regulated — in this case, FinTechs — frequently are being played out in the courts. And in just the latest example, the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against digital banking platform Dave spotlights some of the key areas […]
March 29, 2024
The proliferation of voice-activated technology, from virtual shopping assistants to speech recognition in smartphones and smart homes, is reshaping how consumers interact with devices. Advancements in this field are continually expanding the possibilities...
April 07, 2023
Almost no one doubts that some subscription companies make it difficult for their customers to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is recommending a streamlined path toward subscription cancellations, and...
April 22, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are working on new horizontal merger guidelines, which may be ready by the end of the year, that could...
December 20, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order requiring Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to implement a comprehensive information security program. This final order settles the FTC’s charges announced in October that the companies deceived customers by claiming to have reasonable data security, when in fact they did not, the FTC said […]
December 18, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission approved a final order settling its complaint against Rytr for selling an artificial intelligence “Testimonial & Review” service. The regulator alleged that Rytr violated the FTC...
December 17, 2024
Grubhub will pay $25 million and make several changes to its operations to settle charges that it violated consumer protection and competition laws. The proposed settlement covers charges from the...
December 17, 2024
The FTC has unveiled a rule blocking “bait-and-switch” pricing for hotels and concert tickets. Such tactics, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday (Dec. 17) are used by the live-event ticketing and...
