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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 exploita ....
Who can easily log on in the first place. As for the other half, well, thats a different story, as david pogue explains this morning. Reporter during the pandemic, highspeed internet has been the foundation of work, school, and doctor visits, which is great if you have highspeed internet. But about half of americans dont. To get online to do your research or your correspondence, you park at a taco bell . I do. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, the Great AmericanInternet Access crisis. Pauley she is a legend of country music, tanya tucker. And back before the pandemic shut most concerts down, she shared some stories with our bob schieffer. Delta dawn reporter she was once country musics wild child, a breakout star at the ripe old age of 13, tanya tucker has been riding high for five decades. With a grammywinning album that is getting the best reviews of here career. If that ....
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 ....
One, in general. In general, i think when two companies are negotiating you are negotiating not just the amount of money that is going to change hands but also what youre going to get in exchange for the amount of money. That ask a fundamental way business works. To do you see at least to outsiders that would look like a structural conflict of interest . You are using your control over access to peoples living rooms essentially, youre using that in order to obtain leverage in terms of getting Creative Content that you want . Are you essentially converting power in one domain into power in another domain where it doesnt belong . I think what i should do is offer to get you information. I will get it to your office for you because im not, not familiar enough with this. I could imagine there would be scenarios, if were just talking abstract where it would be inappropriate and i can imagine scenarios where it would be very normal bu ....
Role, on the Long Distance round table, ben levisohn, carlton english and jack howe. The fed has been sometimes blamed for propping up the market, but it looks like fridays selloff may have been in part due to what the fed was saying and doing. Thats right. I think the fed made a mistake. They released the results of their a bank stress tests, and at first they looked just fine. The dividends were capped for the third quarter, but that wasnt much of a surprise. Normally the suspension of buybacks because no ones really buying back banks anymore, but they left a lot of uncertainty about future quarters. As investors looked at those numbers, they a really started to get a bit afraid of what it meant for bank stocks, and then they started to fall on friday. And it really isnt good for the market at this point or investors. Tech is about 27 of the s p 500 right now. If thats near dot. Com levels. Investors really need other choices bes ....