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FTC Wants More Power Against Net Scammers

Anne Broache writes on C|Net News.

Past and present Federal Trade Commission officials on Monday renewed their call for Congress to expand the agency's international Internet policing powers and its ability to slap fines on wrongdoers.

The suggestions came at a conference here organized by the Center for American Progress. The organization, which bills itself as a nonpartisan research institute that "challenges conservative thinking," intended the event to outline issues expected to emerge at a four-day series of mostly public hearings about the Internet and consumer protection that the FTC plans to sponsor this fall.

Those hearings, planned for Nov. 6 to 9, have been described as the first major endeavor of the sort by the FTC since 1996, although the agency has also held about 40 workshops and conferences on consumer protection issues since then.

posted by Fergie @ 7/24/2006 03:57:00 PM