October 30, 2012
You just sat down to dinner and the phone rings. Who is it? The annoying interruption is from a robocall—one of those prerecorded telemarketers making a pitch. These days more and more people across the country hear the voice of someone who says she’s Rachel from Cardholder Services. She advises that it is urgent that you call back and that even though you don’t have bad credit, she can lop off the interest rate on your credit cards and reduce your mortgage payments. Just press 1 and help is on the way.
October 30, 2012
Taking money from U.S. taxpayers was standard operating procedure, hardly worth trying to hide, at Swiss-owned bank UBS, according to an FTC:WATCH analysis of testimony in the month-long trial of...
October 30, 2012
More people are headed to jail in the widening municipal bond corruption scandal, which involved more than a half-dozen major financial services firms.
October 30, 2012
The FTC has issued a staff report with new guidelines for the emerging field of facial recognition technology, following a one-day conference in December on how improvements in imaging capabilities...
October 30, 2012
In late October, McDonald’s Corp. shut down one practice that critics said violated children’s privacy, and in the process illuminated a wide range of issues affecting the field.
October 30, 2012
The setting for the talk was extraordinary—the L’Auberge Del Mar hotel in Southern California—and the content of the speech by outgoing FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch was equally noteworthy.
October 30, 2012
What do best-selling authors John Grisham, Dan Brown, Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz and Patricia Cornwell have in common with millions of their readers? An implicit stake in the proposed merger of two...
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