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Trump administration's dismissal of FTC member Rebecca Slaughter was overturned by a D.C. judge who cited the agency's century-old independence safeguards.
The scammers posed as agents of the Federal Reserve and told a woman that to protect her money and bank accounts accessed through the computer, she should purchase gold bars.
The move marks a departure from the regime of former chair Lina Khan and former president Joe Biden’s tougher antitrust policies. The January ruling took place shortly before Donald Trump’s second ...
The Supreme Court cleared the way for mass Education Department layoffs, bolstering President Donald Trump’s federal workforce cuts while legal battles continue.
A US federal appeals court has struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s Click-to-Cancel rule, effectively blocking ...
The FTC’s "click-to-cancel" rule would have required companies to make canceling a subscription as simple as signing up. But ...
A federal appeals court dealt a blow to consumer protection efforts, ruling that services do not have to make it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions.
A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions ...
The rule in question would have required streaming video platforms to make the subscription cancellation process take as few steps as signing up.
In 2024, there were an estimated 50,000 vacation rental scams reported to the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in losses ...
Just days before it was supposed to go into effect, the rule was struck down by an appeals court in St. Louis.