WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, from a July 29, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Deception Machine: Deepfakes, Chatbots, and the New Frontier of Senior Fraud": * * * Thank you, Chair Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and Members of the Committee. My name is Ben Winters, and I am the Director of AI and Privacy at the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), one of the nation's leading non-profit consumer or more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America, from a July 29, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Deception Machine: Deepfakes, Chatbots, and the New Frontier of Senior Fraud": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) The CFPB, which both took on big financial bad actors and talked to the everyday victims of scams and online crime, has been decimated and repeatedly attacked from those that are supposed to run it.85 They even more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Matthew F. Ferraro, partner at Crowell and Moring LLP, from a July 29, 2026, hearing entitled "The AI Deception Machine: Deepfakes, Chatbots, and the New Frontier of Senior Fraud": * * * Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting me to testify before the Committee on this important topic. It is an honor to be before you today. My name is Matthew F. Ferraro. I am a partner at the law firm Crowe more PR