Commission Actions

May 14, 1999 Welcome to the FTC workshop on our consumer protection rules and guides. Our goal today is to discuss how they apply to newer forms of electronic media, with particular emphasis on the...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated the largest civil penalty ever obtained in a settlement of alleged violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). Franklin Acceptance Corporation...

Dell Computer Corp. and Micron Electronics, Inc. have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their computer lease advertisements violated federal laws. According to the agency, both...

Fitness Quest, Inc., based in Canton, Ohio, and its president, Robert R. Schnabel, Jr., have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made numerous unsubstantiated claims in...

"Since 1995, the Federal Trade Commission has encouraged online firms to offer privacy protections to consumers to encourage broad participation in electronic commerce. Last year, the FTC reported to...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal district court judge has permanently barred Inetintl.Com, Inc., doing business as Inet International, and two individual defendants from...

National Credit Management Group of Fort Lee and Edgewater, New Jersey, and its principals, Glen Buzzetti and Joseph Ferguson, have agreed to settle charges brought against them by the Federal Trade...