the Federal Trade CommissionThe FTC’s new strategic plan, covering the next five years, amended the regulator’s mission statement by reinstating the phrase “without unduly burdening legitimate business activity,” FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson He wrote in a letter pitching the plan.
In his letter, which is among the first pages ofFTC Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2026-2030Released on Friday (April 3), Ferguson said the return of the phrase reflects “our commitment to ending over-regulation of American businesses that compete fairly and deal honestly with consumers.”
Highlighting another change in the new strategic plan, Ferguson said the FTC added language about protecting children online, adding that this is “one of the most important consumer protection issues of our time.”
Within the strategic plan, the FTC said some of its most valuable work is its ongoing efforts to enforce the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which prohibits certain website operators from collecting, using or disclosing children’s personal data without their parents’ consent.
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The FTC also said it is exploring how it can protect children and support families using its new authority under the FTC Take it law.
It was reported in January that the Take It Down Act, signed into law in 2025, makes it a crime to make non-consensual intimate posts. Deep fakes It imposes strict takedown obligations on covered platforms.
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The regulatory body is also publishing online safety tips for parents and children, according to the strategic plan.
The third change that Ferguson highlighted in his letter is that we improved our performance measures by eliminating those that did not provide actionable data, and by adding an improved measure of costs and benefits that would more clearly measure the FTC’s value to American taxpayers.
The Federal Trade Commission also announced Friday that it has brought forward fiscal year 2027 Budget request To Congress. The regulatory body said in a statement that it seeks $426.71 million and 1,183 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs for that fiscal year. press release.
The regulator used as its baseline the fiscal year 2025 that enacted the fiscal year 2026 appropriations level, which was $425.70 million and 1,183 FTE, according to the budget request.
