Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission staff took action earlier this week to increase compliance with the Contact Lens Rule by sellers of non-corrective, decorative/cosmetic contact lenses. In 2003, Congress...

Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has authorized the publication of a Federal Register notice soliciting public comments on the Recycled Oil Rule, as part of the FTC’s ongoing...

The Federal Trade Commission today called on social networking sites to make sure children visiting their sites can stay safe and their parents can protect them. Testifying for the FTC, Commissioner...

Transmission of joint FTC/DOJ comments: The Commission has authorized the filing of comments, prepared jointly with the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, with the New York State...

The Federal Trade Commission today told a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that access to the Whois databases is “critical to the agency’s consumer protection laws...

Reaching an important milestone in the NorVergence telecommunications fraud case, the Federal Trade Commission today announced it has settled charges against the company’s founders and principals...

Petition to reopen and modify Commission order: The Commission received a petition from The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams), requesting that the FTC reopen and modify a 1998 order, with the docket...

The Commission today announced it is notifying approximately 110 individuals that two FTC laptop computers, one of which contained some of their personally identifiable information, were stolen from a...

A Southern California-based mortgage broker will pay $50,000 under a court order filed today on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly calling tens of thousands of consumers who are on...

As the number of phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry surpassed 125 million, the Federal Trade Commission today reiterated that despite the claims made in e-mails circulating on...