Telemarketing Call Rule Slated for FTC Update to Fight Fraud (1)

The Federal Trade Commission voted to update its rule governing telemarketing to consumers, looking to take on fraudulent business-to-business calls and introduce requirements for easily canceling sales made through such calls.

The updates are meant to fill “critical gaps” in the agency’s telemarketing sales rule that leave consumers and small businesses susceptible to fraud, FTC Chair Lina Khan said at a commission meeting Thursday. Not all of the calls that the FTC hears complaints about are currently covered by the rule, she said.

The agency’s four commissioners voted unanimously to approve a pair of notices for taking initial steps toward ...