‘We’re not trying to remake the economy’: FTC’s Mufarrige charts new course on tech enforcement

**Executive Summary:** The interview with FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Chris Mufarrige describes the agency's current enforcement focus—emphasizing children's privacy through COPPA and age verification, monitoring Meta for compliance, pursuing actions against data brokers, preparing guidance for the Take It Down Act, and prioritizing fraud and data misuse concerns related to AI—while shifting away from broad rulemaking toward targeted traditional consumer-protection enforcement.