Commission Actions

Commission authorization of the filing of staff comment: The Commission has authorized the staffs of the Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Bureau of Economics to file a...

February 5-11 is the week to focus on consumer protection! Each year, National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) highlights consumer protection and education efforts across the country. During the week...

Consumer data broker ChoicePoint, Inc., which last year acknowledged that the personal financial records of more than 163,000 consumers in its database had been compromised, will pay $10 million in...

En el día de hoy la Comisión Federal de Comercio ( Federal Trade Commission, FTC ), el Servicio de Inspección Postal de EE.UU. ( U.S. Postal Inspection Service, USPIS ) y la Cámara Hispana de Comercio...

The Federal Trade Commission today released its annual report detailing consumer complaints about fraud and identity theft in 2005. Complaints about identity theft topped the list, accounting for 255...

FTC to Announce Multi-Million-Dollar Civil Penalty for Data Security Violations The Federal Trade Commission will hold a press conference on Thursday, January 26, 2006, at 11 am EST to announce a...

La Comisión Federal de Comercio (Federal Trade Commission, FTC) ha difundido hoy su informe anual en el cual se detallan las quejas de los consumidores sobre fraude y robo de identidad que fueron...

Commission approval of comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: The Commission has approved a comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about economically sound ways to...

The Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for Ohio hosted a workshop in Cleveland today to continue a nationwide campaign to find more ways...

Under a settlement reached by the Federal Trade Commission and announced today, a Georgia-based corporation, Entrepreneurial Strategies, Ltd., and its chief executive officer, Dale Allison, Jr., will...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged an employment-opportunity scammer and his companies with marketing a fraudulent U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employment program. Through advertisements and...

The Federal Trade Commission and the United States Postal Inspection Service will hold a media availability, following a one-day workshop for law enforcement, government, and community groups, to...