Federal Trade Commission Seeks Greater Power to Fight Internet Scammers

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-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...

... public hearings, planned for Nov. 6 to 9....

Much of the focus of the hearings will be on devising ways to combat a host of unanticipated menaces--most notably, spam, spyware and phishing schemes--that have emerged in the last decade, said Eileen Harrington, deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Part of that work must occur on Capitol Hill, where politicians must adopt new legislation "to give us much-needed tools to do our jobs," particularly when investigating alleged violations that cross American borders, she said...

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