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
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President obama has officially nominated Ashton Carter to be the next secretary of defense. His task is to make the military more efficient. Going forward, our armed forces are necessarily going to need to be leaner. As commanderinchief, i will make sure we have a military that is second to none and that continues to be the greatest critic the greatest fighting force in the history of the world. He was the number two civilian at the pentagon and has expense and budgeting and buying weapons systems. Cisco systems is suing a rival rista networks for patent infringement. They say the Networking Company infringed on 14 of its patents and copied other intellectual property. Many of our rest is a executives are former cisco employees and they said they took short cuts. Nbcs live production of the musical peter pan was not a highflying hit. The show starring Alison Williams and Christopher Walken drew 9. 1 Million Viewers which is happy audience for last july production of the sound of music.