Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission and 24 state agencies today announced a crackdown on 33 operations that deceptively claim they can remove negative information from consumers' credit reports, even if that...

The Federal Trade Commission will suspend enforcement of the new “Red Flags Rule” until May 1, 2009, to give creditors and financial institutions additional time in which to develop and implement...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved a final consent order in the matter concerning Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA/Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd. The vote approving the...

An invention promotion marketer has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he violated federal law by duping consumers with false promises. The proposed settlement bans him from...

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic announced today the release of a report from the President’s Identity Theft Task Force on...

The Federal Trade Commission, in cooperation with 24 state agencies in 22 states, will hold a press conference to announce a crackdown on operations that deceptively claim they can remove negative...

Commission issuance of order in matter of Rambus, Inc. - The Commission has issued an order in Rambus, Inc., Docket No. 9302, authorizing Rambus to receive royalties in excess of maximum allowable...

In their latest effort to defraud the public, con artists claiming to work for the Federal Trade Commission are calling consumers and claiming that they have won a lottery or sweepstakes. As the...

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is hosting a Town Hall meeting on medical identity theft at the...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its final U.S. roundtable to be held as part of the ongoing agency initiative “FTC at 100: Into Our Second Century.” The event, which is free and open to...

A U.S. district court has ordered a halt to the operations of a vast international spam network that peddled prescription drugs and bogus male-enhancement products. The network has been identified as...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its third U.S. roundtable to be held as part of the ongoing agency initiative “FTC at 100: Into Our Second Century.” The event, which is free and open to...

Online scammers are taking advantage of tough economic times. While e-mails phishing for sensitive data are nothing new, scammers are taking advantage of upheavals in the financial marketplace to...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced a consent agreement and order that settle charges that Golf Galaxy, a subsidiary of Dick’s Sporting Good’s Inc., violated federal law by illegally...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that Joel Winston, Associate Director for Privacy and Identity Protection in the agency’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, has received the 2008 Presidential...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a free two-day Fraud Forum on February 25 and 26, 2009, in Washington, DC. The Forum will examine how the FTC can more effectively protect consumers from...

A federal judge has banned Kevin Trudeau from infomercials in which he has an interest for three years and ordered him to pay more than $5 million in profits from his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the agenda and panelists for its upcoming workshop on Section 5 of the FTC Act. The workshop will be held on October 17, 2008, and will consider the...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dedman School of Law will host a half-day public workshop in Dallas on Thursday, November 13, 2008, on how businesses can...

Hexion LLC has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed $10.6 billion acquisition of rival chemical manufacturer Huntsman Corporation would violate antitrust laws by...