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Technology Blog
P = NP? Not exactly, but here are some research questions from the Office of Technology.
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The scientific community has a history of creating and sharing lists of important or interesting questions. The mathematician Paul Erdős, for example, famously doled out his questions to students and...
Technology Blog
Consumer Facing Applications: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI
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The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI 1 convened three panels that highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and consumer-facing applications. This third...
Technology Blog
Data and Models: A Quote Book from the Tech Summit on AI
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The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI [1] convened three panels that each highlighted different layers of the AI tech stack: hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. This...
Business Blog
Business Blog’s Clear Eye on AI
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We like to think the FTC Business Blog offers an occasional notable quote – or quotable note – on the issues businesses and consumers are talking about. Right now no topic is more top-of-mind than...
Technology Blog
Approaches to Address AI-enabled Voice Cloning
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Today, the FTC announced four winners of the Voice Cloning Challenge, which was launched to address the present and emerging harms of artificial intelligence, or “AI”-enabled voice cloning...
Business Blog
FTC announces winners of Voice Cloning Challenge – and has a word or two for businesses
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Voice cloning: A boon for people with medical issues or an AI-enabled bonanza for scammers? The answer depends on who’s using the technology and how they’re using it. That’s why the FTC is taking a...
Technology Blog
Government Agencies Act to Elevate and Build Tech and Digital Capacity
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The FTC’s Office of Technology (“OT”) was founded in 2023 with the purpose of strengthening and supporting law enforcement investigations and actions, advising and engaging with FTC staff and the...
Technology Blog
Best Practices in Building Tech Capacity in Law Enforcement Agencies
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It is increasingly important to use existing legal and enforcement tools in digital and technology cases and develop and implement new or updated tools and approaches to strengthen investigations and...
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Reinvigorating Antitrust: Citizens, not just Consumers: A conversation between Lina Khan and Daron Acemoglu
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Chair Khan will participate in a conversation with Daron Acemoglu on the role of antitrust as a tool to check corporate power, what economics is interesting and useful to regulators dealing with power...
Technology Blog
Semiconductor Chips & Cloud Computing: A Quote Book
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The FTC’s Tech Summit on AI [1] highlighted three panels that reflect different layers of the AI tech stack – hardware and infrastructure, data and models, and front-end user applications. Today, we...
Business Blog
Revised rule and proposed amendment expand the fight against illegal telemarketing
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The FTC just announced final updates to the Telemarketing Sales Rule and there’s an important revision that will help protect small businesses from scammers making misrepresentations in B2B calls. But...
Business Blog
Ready, Set, PrivacyCon
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Where can you hear technology researchers discuss what’s new and what’s next in talked-about tech topics like AI, deepfakes, and health privacy? At the FTC’s eighth annual PrivacyCon. It starts this...
Business Blog
Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
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Landlords and property managers can’t collude on rental pricing. Using new technology to do it doesn’t change that antitrust fundamental. Regardless of the industry you’re in, if your business uses an...
Business Blog
PrivacyCon looks at latest research into AI, mobile device security, health privacy, deepfakes, and more
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If there were a bingo board that included just about every privacy and data security issue on the minds of consumers, academics, businesses, and government agencies, the FTC’s eight annual PrivacyCon...
Business Blog
FTC says Avast promised privacy, but pirated consumers’ data for treasure
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When uttered by a pirate, “Avast!” is a nautical term for “Listen up and cut it out.” And when the FTC says “Avast!” to software company Avast, it means the same thing. UK-based Avast Limited told...
Business Blog
New Impersonator Rule gives FTC a powerful tool for protecting consumers and businesses
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To turn the old adage on its head, imitation is the insincerest form of falsity. After years of fighting back against scammers who impersonate government agencies and companies, the FTC proposed a...
Technology Blog
AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive
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You may have heard that “data is the new oil”—in other words, data is the critical raw material that drives innovation in tech and business, and like oil, it must be collected at a massive scale and...
Technology Blog
A few key principles: An excerpt from Chair Khan’s Remarks at the January Tech Summit on AI
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At the FTC’s Tech Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Chair Khan previewed how the FTC is using its experience and expertise to establish rules of the road for AI. In her remarks , she noted that “as...
Business Blog
FloatMe claimed to rescue consumers struggling to keep their heads above water, but left many without a lifeline
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For consumers already underwater financially and desperate for just $50, cash advance company FloatMe’s services turned out to be more sink than swim. According to the FTC, the subscription-based...
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