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FTC: every development we track
3 developments and 5 rules, in date order. Built automatically from every development involving this organisation.
- Rule · In forceUSTAKE IT DOWN Act
- FTC orders seven firms to explain how AI companion chatbots protect children
It put the largest consumer chatbot providers on notice that companion features and teen use are a federal consumer-protection priority, ahead of state companion-chatbot laws taking effect.
- Trump executive order targets state AI laws with litigation and funding pressure
It does not void any state law by itself, but it opened a federal legal and financial campaign against state AI statutes such as Colorado's and California's.
- Rule · In forceUSState AI law preemption EO
Also on Transparency, not licensing, Can an algorithm deny your care?
- FTC begins enforcing TAKE IT DOWN Act's 48-hour removal duty for intimate deepfakes
Any US service hosting user images or video, including AI image generators, now needs a working notice-and-removal channel or faces FTC civil penalties.