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Advocacy Letter to Oregon Legislature: Oregon’s House Bill 4130
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Matter Number
P261201
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Letter to Oregon Senator Patterson
(3.99 MB)
FTC Action Leads to Ban for Company and Its Owner Who Failed to Ship PPE ‘Next Day’ at Height of Pandemic
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As a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, Kevin Lipsitz, who defrauded consumers by falsely promising “next day” shipping of facemasks and respirators to consumers at the height of the COVID...
NY Unfairness Letters from Samuel Levine and Hannah Garden-Monheit
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Matter Number
P261201
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NY Unfairness Letter Governor Hochul
(225.01 KB)
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NY Unfairness Letter Senate
(228.51 KB)
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NY Unfairness Letter Assembly
(236.2 KB)
FTC Takes Action Against Tax Prep Company H&R Block For Wiping Consumers’ Data, Deceptively Marketing ‘Free’ Online Filing
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The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against tax preparation company H&R Block for unfairly deleting consumers’ tax data and requiring them to contact customer service when they downgrade to...
FTC Finalizes Order with Global Tel*Link Over Security Failures that Led to Breach of Sensitive Data
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The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order with prison communications provider Global Tel*Link Corp. and two of its subsidiaries settling charges they failed to secure sensitive data of...
Global Tel Link Corporation
The FTC alleged that Global Tel*Link Corp. and two of its subsidiaries failed to secure sensitive data of hundreds of thousands of users stored in a cloud environment and failed to alert all those affected by the incident.
Type of Action
Administrative
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
2123012
Case Status
Pending
ViiV Healthcare Company (DOVATO HIV Treatment Medication)
Date
By
Courtney A. Estep, Chief of Staff for Advertising Practices
File
Resolution Letter
(150.08 KB)
Statement of Chair Lina M. Khan Joined by Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya in the Matter of Avast Limited
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By
Lina M. Khan, Former Chair and Commissioner;
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Former Commissioner;
Alvaro Bedoya, Former Commissioner
FTC Order Will Ban Avast from Selling Browsing Data for Advertising Purposes, Require It to Pay $16.5 Million Over Charges the Firm Sold Browsing Data After Claiming Its Products Would Block Online Tracking
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The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle...
Letter from Chair Khan to Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Regarding the FTC's Investigation of Potential Third-Party Access to the Information of Twitter Users
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By
Lina M. Khan, Former Chair and Commissioner
Matter Number
P210100
FTC Sends Almost 160,000 Claim Forms to Consumers Who Could Receive Money Under a Settlement with LasikPlus Providers Over Deceptive Price Advertising
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The Federal Trade Commission is sending claim forms to consumers who may have been misled by deceptive bait-and-switch advertising by Ohio-based LCA-Vision, doing business as LasikPlus and Joffe...
FTC Staff Provides Annual Letter to CFPB On 2023 Equal Credit Opportunity Act Activities
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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has provided the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) an annual summary of its enforcement and related activities on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act...
FTC, California DFPI Case Leads to Ban Against Operators of Mortgage Relief Scam Home Matters USA
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A federal court has issued an order banning the operators of the Home Matters USA mortgage relief scam from the telemarketing and debt relief businesses and requiring them to turn over $19 million as...
Statement of Chair Khan, Joined by Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya, Regarding the Final Trade Regulation Rule on Impersonation of Government and Businesses
Date
By
Lina M. Khan, Former Chair and Commissioner;
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Former Commissioner;
Alvaro Bedoya, Former Commissioner
Matter Number
R207000
FTC Proposes New Protections to Combat AI Impersonation of Individuals
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking that would prohibit the impersonation of individuals. The proposed rule changes would extend...
FTC Order Will Ban California-based Company from COVID-19 Advertising Claims
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposed settlement that would ban California-based Precision Patient Outcomes, Inc. (PPO) and the company’s CEO Margrett Priest Lewis from claiming that...
Precision Patient Outcomes
In November 2022, the FTC filed a complaint in court seeing civil penalties against California-based Precision Patient Outcomes, Inc. and the company’s CEO Margrett Priest Lewis for marketing an over-the-counter dietary supplement containing nothing more than vitamins, zinc, and a flavonoid as an effective treatment to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. In February 2024, the FTC announced an order settling its allegations that bars the defendants from the alleged deceptive practices.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
2123137
Case Status
Pending
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