{"id":3548,"date":"2009-10-29T16:22:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:49:44","slug":"ftc-to-get-new-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/10\/29\/ftc-to-get-new-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC to get new powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3549\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/FTC-Logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FTC Logo\" width=\"201\" height=\"201\" \/>Congress is moving to give the Federal Trade Commission new <a title=\"powers\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125677809189114853.html\" target=\"_blank\">powers<\/a> to oversee and punish violators of FTC regulations aimed at protecting consumers.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Michael Salinger\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/SalingerMichael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Salinger<\/a>, a former FTC director, says the authority to impose civil penalties will help, but cautions that\u00a0the ban on &#8220;unfair trade practices&#8221; in the FTC Act is vague.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The combination of large penalties and uncertain legal standards can be a big problem.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Michael Salinger, 617-353-4408, <a href=\"mailto:salinger@bu.edu\">salinger@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is moving to give the Federal Trade Commission new powers to oversee and punish violators of FTC regulations aimed at protecting consumers.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Michael Salinger, a former FTC director, says the authority to impose civil penalties will help, but cautions that\u00a0the ban on &#8220;unfair trade practices&#8221; in the FTC Act is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491,1],"tags":[943,1902,1901],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8384,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/8384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}