FTC

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over consumer risks, with formal demands for documents and executive testimony expected within weeks.

The FTC voted 2-0 to open comment through July 31 on a proposed statement treating undisclosed ideological AI output-steering as deception and calling Colorado's AI Act impliedly preempted.

The 6-3 ruling lets presidents fire FTC commissioners at will, reshaping the agency that leads U.S. privacy and AI enforcement.

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson told corn farmers in Texas the agency has opened a compulsory-process antitrust investigation into surging fertilizer prices.

The FTC finalized a consent order barring Rollins from enforcing noncompetes against more than 18,000 workers, marking its post-rule enforcement pivot.

The FTC settled for $930,000 total after CMG and two partners falsely claimed their 'Active Listening' service captured real-time smart-device voice data to deliver hyper-local ads — it was actually resold email lists.

The FTC launched enforcement of the TAKE IT DOWN Act on May 19, sending warning letters to fifteen platforms — including Snapchat, TikTok, Meta, and X — that have not yet built compliant removal processes for nonconsensual intimate images and AI deepfakes.

The FTC settled its 2022 lawsuit against Kochava and subsidiary Collective Data Solutions, barring the companies from selling precise location data without affirmative express consent in the most significant U.S. enforcement action against a location data broker.

Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 on April 28, prohibiting large food retailers and delivery apps from using personal data to set individualized prices, but consumer advocates say loopholes and a 45-day cure period weaken the bill.

The Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of eight states secured a proposed consent order banning the three holding companies from coordinating brand safety standards or maintaining shared exclusion lists.

A new GOP-backed bill would create a national consumer privacy framework but preempt stronger state laws like California's CCPA, reigniting a years-long battle over whether federal rules should be a floor or a ceiling.

The Federal Trade Commission's March 30 consent order would permanently prohibit OkCupid and Match Group from misrepresenting their data practices after sharing nearly 3 million user photos with facial recognition firm Clarifai in 2014, but levies no civil penalty and no privacy program obligations.