Commission Actions

Commission authorization of staff amicus brief filing : The Commission has voted to join in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court by the United States in the consolidated cases of Safeco...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today announced that Mary Beth Richards will join the agency as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. Richards comes to the FTC...

Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today announced several recent appointments and promotions that reinforce the agency’s commitment to maintaining a leadership role in competition enforcement and policy...

The Federal Trade Commission is presenting half-day “back to basics” workshops on complying with truth-in-advertising laws, Green Lights & Red Flags : FTC-BBB Rules of the Road for Advertisers &...

“I am highly encouraged by the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ initiative on children’s food and beverage advertising, and I commend the Council for taking these important steps. The Federal Trade...

A U.S. district court has shut down an operation that secretly downloaded multiple malevolent software programs, including spyware, onto millions of computers without consumers’ consent, degrading...

Two Canadian brothers and their companies, charged by the Federal Trade Commission in 2003 with deceptively telling elderly U.S. consumers they had won the Australian or other foreign lotteries, have...

An operation that sold worthless prep materials for post office jobs that didn’t exist will give up almost all of their assets to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the scam violated federal...