By: Debbie Feinstein | Mar 16, 2015 9:15AM
From time to time, the Commission revises its rules of practice in the interest of fairness, flexibility and efficiency—in other words, to improve the process it relies on for its investigations, studies and adjudicative proceedings. For instance, in 2009, the Commission made comprehensive changes that overhauled the Commission’s Part 3 adjudicative proceedings with the main goal of addressing concerns that they were too protracted.
Rent-to-Own: Consider your alternatives
By: Colleen Tressler | Mar 23, 2015 5:29PM
Booting up a new research office at the FTC
By: Ashkan Soltani, Chief Technologist | Mar 23, 2015 11:00AM
Calling all Technologists! The FTC has job opportunities available in its newly formed Office of Technology Research and Investigation (OTRI), an office designed to expand the FTC’s capacity to protect consumers in an age of rapid technological innovation.
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BCP’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation: The next generation in consumer protection
By: Jessica Rich, Bureau of Consumer Protection | Mar 23, 2015 2:01AM
The FTC keeps its finger on the pulse of markets, channeling its resources to protect consumers from deceptive and unfair practices involving new technologies. A few years ago, we created the Mobile Technology Unit to help bring consumer protection into the mobile era. Staffers assist the Bureau of Consumer Protection and FTC regions with law enforcement investigations and lend their expertise to the development of consumer protection policy.
COPPA and schools: Updated FAQs from FTC staff
By: Lesley Fair | Mar 20, 2015 4:58PM
Parents and educators have been thinking a lot lately about the interplay between schools and the FTC’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. So we’ve revised our COPPA FAQs to address the questions you’re asking.
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Don’t pay for a vacation to nowhere
By: Aditi Jhaveri | Mar 19, 2015 5:57PM
By: Amy Hebert | Mar 19, 2015 2:39PM
Can imported laminate wood floors make you sick?
By: Colleen Tressler | Mar 19, 2015 12:26PM
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FTC to BMW: Don’t MINImize Mag-Moss warranty compliance
By: Lesley Fair | Mar 19, 2015 11:17AM
If your company offers warranties, a proposed FTC settlement with BMW of North America’s MINI Division suggests that a compliance check-up could be warranted.
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Been hacked or hijacked? Read this.
By: Amy Hebert | Mar 18, 2015 12:45PM
By: Jennifer Leach | Mar 18, 2015 11:00AM
