Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission today unveiled a "roadmap" on the Web that will show consumers how to protect their personal information from public access. This "one stop shop" for consumer privacy...

The remaining two defendants sued by the Federal Trade Commission in 1995 as part of "Project Telesweep" -- a nationwide crackdown on business opportunity fraud -- have agreed to settle the federal...

Darryl André, and three other individual defendants, operating under a host of assumed names, including Premier Card Services, have agreed to settle federal and state charges that they deceptively...

A company that promised fabulous earnings for investors in an Internet website development business has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the FTC’s Franchise Rule. The...

Randolph W. Tritell has been named as the Federal Trade Commission’s Assistant Director for International Antitrust, effective immediately. Tritell, formerly of the law firm of Weil, Gotshal and...

Richard G. Parker has been named Senior Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust arm, the Bureau of Competition. Parker has extensive experience in antitrust and other litigation...

The principal defendant in one of the cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission's "Project $cholar$cam," a nationwide crackdown on fraudulent scholarship search services, has agreed to settle...

James P. Timony has been named Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Federal Trade Commission. Timony, who was appointed as an administrative law judge at the FTC in 1976, also has heard cases for 16...

Bogdana Corporation, a Beverly Hills, California company, and its officers, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated health claims in their...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment about a proposed telephone survey of consumers and their experience with the rent-to-own industry. The request for public comment, which was...

Agreements to ban price advertising for new farm equipment violated federal law, the Federal Trade Commission said today in announcing a settlement with Fastline Publications, Inc., a Kentucky...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on proposed amendments to the Care Labeling Rule, which requires labels to be placed on clothing and certain piece goods indicating instructions...