2/11/2025 4:55:35 PM What Can You Buy For $53,088? By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission just announced the new civil penalty amounts for violations of the laws that the agency enforces, as...
2/10/2025 9:51:42 PM FTC Chair Announces Senior Staff Appointments By Jeff Greenbaum Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced that he has appointed Christopher Mufarrige as Director of the FTC's...
2/4/2025 12:49:23 AM FTC Closes Two "Made in USA" Inquiries By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission recently closed two investigations into marketers' “Made in USA” claims. Here's a quick recap. The FTC...
1/25/2025 11:21:41 PM FTC Chair Says "DEI is Over at the FTC" By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced that “DEI is over at the FTC." Ferguson explained, “DEI is a...
1/16/2025 10:55:32 PM FTC Proposes Earnings Claims Rulemaking, But Fate Is Uncertain By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking public comment on three proposals—two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and...
1/3/2025 4:40:51 PM Is it Time to Update Your Shipping and Return Practices? By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it entered into a more than $2 million settlement with online retailer GOAT,...
1/3/2025 2:06:36 PM Brain Claims Enjoined By Terri Seligman Back in 2017, the FTC and New York AG charged Quincy Bioscience and its founders with making false and unsubstantiated claims to market...
12/23/2024 5:06:22 PM Using AI For Product Reviews and Testimonials? By Terri Seligman First announced in September as part of its Operation AI Comply sweep, the final consent order against Rytr, an AI “testimonial and...
12/11/2024 1:52:38 PM Trump Picks Ferguson to be Next FTC Chair By Jeff Greenbaum President-Elect Donald J. Trump announced that he is picking FTC Commissioner Andrew N. Ferguson to be the next Chair of the Federal...
12/6/2024 6:14:40 PM Face Value: AI and Facial Recognition Technology Claims Draw FTC Scrutiny By Andrew Folks On December 3, 2024, the FTC took action against IntelliVision Technologies Corp., a developer of AI-powered facial recognition software...
12/3/2024 7:27:19 PM FTC Extends TSR’s Applicability to Inbound Calls for Tech Support Services By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission has adopted amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”) that will extend the Rule’s coverage to...
11/27/2024 11:02:04 PM Disclosed Obsolescence: FTC Scrutinizes Transparency in Smart Device Support By Andrew Folks The proliferation of connected devices has fundamentally altered the relationship between consumers and their purchased products. Smart...
11/18/2024 2:02:13 PM FTC Staff Publishes Guidance on the Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule By Terri Seligman As my colleague Hannah Taylor blogged about back in August, the FTC published its final Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer...
11/8/2024 4:27:23 PM FTC Charges Consumer Review Platform With Misrepresenting Product Reviews By Terri Seligman This week, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with GGL Products, dba Sitejabber, an artificial intelligence-enabled review platform....
10/16/2024 8:42:28 PM ‘Click to Cancel’ is Here, as FTC Announces Final Negative Option Rule By Kate Patton Terri Seligman The Federal Trade Commission today (finally) announced its final “click-to-cancel” rule, which imposes new requirements on negative...
10/16/2024 3:55:38 PM Democrats Raise Possibility of Federal Price Gouging Ban With FTC By Jeff Greenbaum Asserting that “[p]rice gouging laws are a widely used, important tool to protect consumers from corporate wrongdoing,” a group of...