The Federal Trade Commission banned businesses from writing and buying their own reviews in an August ruling. Now, it's ...

Hackers for months scooped up call logs, unencrypted texts and some audio in breach, allowing them to pierce America’s ...

Americans shouldn’t accept a reality where their phones are sleeper agents for stalkers and fundamentalist politicians.

The FTC alleged that social media companies have engaged in "vast surveillance" and privacy violations. In a 2023 lawsuit, ...

Perhaps counterintuitively given Republicans’ laser focus on the US border, Project 2025 recommends abolishing the Department ...

An FTC rule banning phony online reviews is now in effect. Those who violate the measures face a civil penalty of up to ...

The FTC warned Lyft in October 2021 that its practices were illegal, and it must stop — but it continued them, and the result is this order and penalty. Of course, $2.1 million is a drop in the ...

Federal and state researchers said there might be five million to 19 million tons of lithium, more than enough to meet the world’s demand for the battery ingredient. By Ivan Penn and Rebecca F ...

In this context, a recent report from the FTC’s inspector general on news leaks are especially troubling and worthy of further investigation. As a law enforcement agency, the FTC is privy to ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is probing whether John Deere used unfair practices related to the repair of its agricultural equipment that might violate the FTC Act. The investigation into ...

Last year, we wrote about the FTC’s proposal to massively expand the Negative Option Rule to cover any goods or services involving a negative option or automatic renewal plan, including free ...

Tired of jumping through hoops to cancel subscriptions? The FTC's new rule aims to make unsubscribing easy. It can be so easy to sign up for memberships and subscriptions. But canceling them?