Standard clauses buried in enterprise software agreements are giving artificial intelligence (AI) vendors sweeping rights to train models on source code, financial records, legal documents and customer data. Most companies don’t know the exposure exists. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) put companies on notice in...
A federal judge ordered payment processing company Cliq to pay $6.5 million in a long-running case related to its fraud prevention measures. The court found that the company violated a court order related to a 2015 case brought by the Federal Trade Commission, according to...
Federal regulators say they’ve temporarily halted an operation that allegedly tricks consumers seeking health insurance. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday (April 22) that a federal court in Florida had halted this operation, which the watchdog accused of impersonating the government and large insurance carriers. The goal...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and eight states have reached a settlement with three advertising agencies that they accused of unlawfully colluding on the placement of digital ads. According to the FTC’s complaint, beginning in 2018, ad agencies WPP, Publicis and Dentsu operated through trade...
April 21, 2025
Just as companies are ramping up their artificial intelligence (AI) deployments in areas ranging from customer service to manufacturing, the U.S. government is seeking to break up two of the biggest AI players, which could have repercussions for AI development and investment for years to come. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission began its anticompetition […]
April 16, 2025
Fraud is getting more sophisticated, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI). Fraud can be perpetrated in the form of deepfake videos or voice, with AI producing a clone of a family...
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...
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...
August 19, 2026
Federal regulators are warning that companies using consumers’ personal data to set prices could be violating the law. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published an enforcement bulletin on this topic Wednesday (Aug. 19), asking for public comment on the topic. “When consumers see a listed price, they expect it to be the same price that […]
May 18, 2026
A federal judge ordered payment processing company Cliq to pay $6.5 million in a long-running case related to its fraud prevention measures. The court found that the company violated a...
April 22, 2026
Federal regulators say they’ve temporarily halted an operation that allegedly tricks consumers seeking health insurance. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced Wednesday (April 22) that a federal court in Florida had halted this...
April 15, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and eight states have reached a settlement with three advertising agencies that they accused of unlawfully colluding on the placement of digital ads. According to...