Good morning and the meeting will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting consumers privacy, and security of the data. And harmful uses of technology in combating deceptive advertising and illegal protocols. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity, and predatory Business Practices and Consumer Education is an essential part of their mission. And its intended to inform customer choices help prevent americans from falling victim to fraudsters, cyber criminals another bad actor
Will come to work. Welcome todays hearing on the oversight of the general trade commission. On extended a welcome and thank you for appearing. You will all appear roughly this morning. Include fcc chairman joe simons, and noah phillips. Commissioner chopra pretty commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. Cc the established in 1914. Under federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting consumers privacy, and security of the data. And harmful uses of technology in combating deceptive advertising and illegal protocols. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity, and predatory Business Practices and Consumer Education is an essential part of their mission. And its intended to inform customer choices help prevent americans from falling victim to fraudsters, cyber criminals another bad actors. And recently discussed and
Agency established in 1914 by the federal trade commission act. The ftc is chiefly responsible from protecting consumers from unfair, deceptive or fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace. This includes protecting business privacy and the security of their data from any harmful uses of technology and combating deceptive advertising and illegal robo calls among other issues. The ftc is also responsible educating consumers about predatory Business Practices. It is intended to inform customer choices and help prevent americans from falling victim to scammers, fraud centers, cyber criminals and other bad actors. As was recently discussed at chairman marans subcommittee hearing the coronavirus has created an avenue for scammers to take advantage of consumers. The surge in internet use in particular because of stay at home orders has been a prime target for exploitation. I appreciate the commissions ongoing efforts to protect consumers from identity theft, email phishing schemes and
We extend a special welcome to our witnesses and thank them for appearing. Remotely all appear this morning. Commissioner noah phillips, commissioner Christine Wilson and rebecca slaughter. This agency was established in 1914 by the federal trade commission act. The fcc is chiefly responsible for protecting consumers from unfair, fraudulent Business Practices in the marketplace, including protecting Consumer Privacy and the security of their data, preventing harmful uses of technology and combating deceptive advertising and illegal robo calls, among other issues. The fcc is also responsible for educating consumers about fraudulent activity and theatory business practice fcc is intended to help prevent americans from falling victim to frauds fraudsters and other actors. Recently discussed, the subcommittee hearing on covid19 scams last month, coronavirus becauseted a new avenue of stayathome orders, a prime target for exploitation. I appreciate the ongoing efforts to protect consumers f
But large gatherings are still banned in the country. And International Donors pledged more than a 1000000000. 00 in aid for war ravaged yemen but its not enough to stave off a catastrophe as the country faces the coronavirus pandemic. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of new york city peacefully calling for an end to Police Brutality after the death of george floyd the white Police Officer filmed kneeling on his neck for nearly 9 minutes has been charged with murder there have been nationwide demonstrations for the last week and on tuesday some protesters in new york defied curfew to loot shops across the city including the Department Store macys in response to violent protests president donald trump. Valid to use military force to end the protests if necessary. Well our Washington Bureau chief alexandra phenomena is a standing by and near the white house alexandra i see people there looking like theyre ready to march standing