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June 26, 2018
“According to the agenda released by the FTC, Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, will give opening remarks at the workshop followed by three panel discussions. The workshop is of utmost importance at a time when crypto scammers are more active with the consumer interest growing in recent times. The FTC says the scams include deceptive investment and business opportunities, bait-and-switch schemes, and deceptively marketed mining machines.”See the full story for yourself, here- http://www.rttnews.com/story.aspx?Id=2908080 It is great to see authorities in a part of the world responding to claims that education needs to be facilitated here. As with any new and emerging technologies, the general public needs to have access to a safe space through which we can learn to interact them. Imagine if nobody gave us access to computers for example, things would be very different now, you have to admit. Whilst we do hope to see more of this sort of stuff over the coming months, hopefully the authorities at DePaul University are going to spearhead a new informative movement which aims to keep people educated online, and, most importantly, up to scratch with this new, upcoming technology.