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Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book for January - December 2012
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Sentinel CY-2012
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FTC Staff Report Recommends Ways to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosures
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The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s chief privacy agency, issued a staff report recommending ways that key players in the rapidly expanding mobile marketplace can better inform consumers about...
FTC Robocall Challenge Garners More Than 700 Submissions
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The Federal Trade Commission wrapped up a three-month submission period for the FTC Robocall Challenge , which seeks the best technical solution to block illegal sales robocalls on landlines and...
FTC to Present Report on Mobile Privacy, Announce Enforcement Action
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The Federal Trade Commission will host a call-in media availability Friday, Feb. 1, at 10:30 a.m. EST, to announce the publication of a new staff report that recommends ways in which mobile...
FTC Action Leads to Court Order: Home Insulation Marketer to Pay $350,000
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A federal court ordered a home insulation marketer to pay a $350,000 civil penalty for making deceptive and unsubstantiated claims about his products’ insulation capabilities. On the Federal Trade...
FTC Sends $7.4 Million in Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Scheme That Sold Allegedly Bogus 'Platinum' Credit Card
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On January 16, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission mailed 70,511 refund checks to consumers who lost money to a scheme that allegedly sold bogus "platinum" credit cards and illegally debited consumers’...
The First of Its Kind, FTC Study Shines a Light on the Debt Buying Industry, Finds Consumers Would Benefit from Use of Better Data in Debt Collection
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of the first empirical study of debt buyers – companies that are in the business of buying consumer debts and trying to collect on them. As the...
Settlement with FTC Bans Sellers of Alleged Fraudulent Auto Loan Modifications from Marketing Debt Relief Services
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In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, two California-based companies and their principals, who allegedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars from consumers, are banned from marketing...
FTC/DOJ Amicus Brief Supports Right of Private Parties to Pursue Relief Under the Antitrust Laws
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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has joined the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the right of private parties to pursue relief...
FTC Brings Seventh Action in Three Months Against Debt Relief Companies
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has temporarily shut down Innovative Wealth Builders, Inc. (IWB), which allegedly operated a...
Cord Blood Bank Settles FTC Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers Sensitive Personal Information
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The operator of a leading cord blood bank, Cbr Systems, Inc., agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to protect the security of customers’ personal information, and that its...
FTC Announces Action Against Alleged Pyramid Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission will co-host a press conference in Lexington, KY, today at 1 p.m. ET (Noon Central Time) , with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office, to announce a major action against...
FTC Approves Final Revised Energy Labeling Rule for Home Heating and Cooling Equipment
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The Federal Trade Commission is issuing changes to its Energy Labeling Rule, which will add regional information to the familiar yellow EnergyGuide label on residential furnaces and central air...
FTC Staff: Tennessee Supreme Court Should Decline to Adopt Proposals that Unnecessarily Restrict Truthful Attorney Advertising
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Federal Trade Commission staff, in response to a request for public comment from the Supreme Court of Tennessee, has provided comment on proposed amendments to the Tennessee Rules of Professional...
FTC Staff Warns 11 Jonesboro, Arkansas, Used Car Dealers for Not Displaying 'Buyers Guides'
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The Federal Trade Commission’s Southwest Region Office has warned 11 used car dealerships in Jonesboro, Arkansas, that their sales practices violate the FTC’s Used Car Rule , which requires used car...
FTC Seeks $22 Million from Wife and Parents of Ringleader Behind Alleged Utah-based Internet Billing Scheme I Works
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court for permission to charge three persons and five companies they control with improperly receiving at least $22 million from a scheme that...
Marketer of 9/11 Commemoratives to Settle FTC Charges
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National Collector’s Mint Inc., which sold 9/11-related coins and collectibles, including an “exclusively authorized” commemorative honoring the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, has...
FTC Settlement Obtains Permanent Ban Against Abusive Debt Collection Operation
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The remaining defendants in the Federal Trade Commission’s case against Rumson, Bolling & Associates have agreed to a settlement that permanently bans them from the debt collection business. Part of...
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