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What to ask before buying internet-connected toys

Cristina Miranda

What’s on your holiday wish list? Perhaps a smart speaker for your kids’ bedroom, or a cuddly cool internet-connected smart toy to help them learn?

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2020 Census: Fact v Fiction

Colleen Tressler

The Federal Trade Commission is partnering with the U.S. Census Bureau to help you guard against potential census scams.

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How To Protect Your Phone From Hackers

Your cell phone holds some of your most sensitive personal information. Things like your passwords and account numbers, emails, text messages, photos, and videos.

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Where is your online search leading you?

Lisa Lake

Dishonest companies set up websites that look like legitimate places to get information on finding a job, joining the military, or getting government benefits.

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Is the American Community Survey legit?

Colleen Tressler

Here at the FTC, we always tell people to use caution when someone they don’t know asks them for personal information.