FTC to Boost Efforts to Limit Junk Fees, Corporate Surveillance

The Federal Trade Commission plans to heighten its focus on junk fees and consumer privacy violations through potential new rules and enforcement actions, a top agency official said.

“We’re very focused on both law enforcement and seeing if there’s a need for market-wide rules to protect consumers throughout the economy,” Samuel Levine, the director of the FTC’s Division of Consumer Protection, said in a Monday interview with Bloomberg Law.

Levine’s unit, which also oversees consumer privacy, continues to push back against commercial surveillance techniques that companies use to track consumers’ behavior online and deliver personalized advertisements.

The commission has a ...