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In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has oversight of franchising, rather than the US Securities and Exchange Commission. [citation needed] [clarification needed] The FTC administrates oversight via the FTC franchise rule. [1] The FTC announced an update to the franchise Rule on January 23, 2007, becoming effective July 1, 2007. [2]
Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act; Other short titles: Financial Literacy and Education Improvement Act: Long title: An Act to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes.
A 2015 study released by the Federal Trade Commission found that 23% of consumers identified inaccurate information in their credit reports. [6] Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), an amendment to the FCRA passed in 2003, consumers are able to receive a free copy of their consumer report from each credit reporting ...
The 129-page report found that several social media and video streaming platforms carried out practices… FTC says social networks’ data privacy, safety policies are ‘woefully inadequate ...
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said it issued warnings to two food and beverage industry groups, as well as a dozen online influencers, for failing to adequately disclose paid social ...
Since self-regulatory initiatives fall short of ideal implementation of the principles (the 2000 FTC Report noted, for example, that self-regulatory initiatives lacked meaningful monitoring and enforcement policies and practices), the Commission recommends that the United States Congress enact legislation that, in conjunction with continuing ...
Social media companies gather data through tracking technologies used in online advertising and buying information from data brokers, and other means, the FTC said.
A franchise disclosure document (FDD) is a legal document which is presented to prospective buyers of franchises in the pre-sale disclosure process in the United States.It was originally known as the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC) (or uniform franchise disclosure document), prior to revisions made by the Federal Trade Commission in July 2007.