>The author seems to live in the UK, but a cursory search suggests there's something similar there as well.

> Maybe the whole world is not in the U.S

Not yet. Working on it, though.

Federal Trade Commission

An acronym as common as GDPR.

Now I'm curious, how is it called in the UK? I tend to use "FTC" as the general term when I want to refer to a trade regulatory body in a country, as in "UK's FTC equivalent". I wasn't aware it is so obscure?