Me submitting an FTC complaint on SimpliSafe requiring a conversation (chat or phone) to cancel a plan.

Read more about the Negative Option Rule here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/15/2024-25534/negative-option-rule

By the way, the FTC is currently accepting comments on amending the rule: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/03/ftc-seeks-public-comment-response-advance-notice-proposed-rulemaking-regarding-negative-option

#FTC #NegativeOptionRule

Is the #USA #FTC moving to take control of the home internet routing gear? It is of course, as clear as mud because the regulation is a little nonsensical. It could be about everything from collecting bribes to inserting #NSA backdoors to (hey why not) good intentions combined with ignorance like the California age "verification" law. Idk.

https://youtu.be/04oL0qVSWJE?si=cS2Me21c98n4a8Y0

Intuit beats FTC in court, ending restrictions on “free“ TurboTax ads

Biden-era punishment tossed; Intuit now has more friendly regulators under Trump.

Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/fzegi

#5th-circuit #ftc #intuit #policy #turbotax
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/intuit-beats-ftc-in-court-ending-restrictions-on-free-turbotax-ads/

FTC targets Xponential Fitness over alleged franchise misrepresentation.

$17M settlement
Disclosure failures
Risk transparency gaps
Compliance ≠ optional.

Source: https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2026/03/protecting-franchisees-ftcs-case-against-xponential-fitness

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“Google should just open up their search index and that is one of the US DoJ proposals now.”

“otherwise, if that doesn't happen, basically the expectation for any new search startup would be to rebuild the entire index of the web.
Which is a monumental task and super hard to do. So hard that Microsoft tried doing that for the last 20 years and spent 100 billion and still got nowhere. Like the quality is still pretty bad.”

“And I really think that that one would solve a lot of problems as well as proliferate a very healthy search landscape. Because if that happened, then anyone could basically bootstrap a search engine. And you would have a search engine for a small town that somebody would build just optimizing for that small town or a small niche, like cats.”

“it's almost impossible for a startup to do that. But it would be akin to asking a, someone before they put a train on the tracks to rebuild the entire track”

From Timetable: Episode 137: Vladimir Prelovac, May 29, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/timetable/id1072855651?i=1000710461091&r=1361
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#bigtech #antitrust #ftc #consumer #monopoly