Cyber-Security Media Briefing
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WHAT: The role of business in promoting a "culture of security" - media briefing. WHO: Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission Thomas Niles, President, U.S. Council for International...
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Announced Action for November 1, 2002
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Applications for proposed divestiture: The Commission has received two applications from Bayer AG (Bayer) for proposed divestitures concerning the recent merger of Bayer AG and Aventis S.A. (Aventis)...
FTC Begins Distributing Redress Checks to Purchasers of Buying Club Memberships
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The Federal Trade Commission has begun distributing refund checks to over 243,000 consumers who allegedly were misled into accepting trial club memberships from a group of buying clubs including Triad...
FTC Issues Report on Nutrition and Health Claims in Advertising
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The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics today released a staff report titled Advertising Nutrition & Health, Evidence from Food Advertising 1977-1997 by economists Pauline M. Ippolito and...
FTC Chairman Muris Presents the FTC's New Five-Point Plan For Attacking Cross-Border Fraud and Highlights Links Between Competition and Consumer Protection
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FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris today presented the FTC's new Five-Point Plan for attacking cross-border fraud and highlighted the complementarities of consumer protection and competition policies...
Miami Company That Operated a Phony Work-at-home Business Opportunity Settles FTC Charges
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A Miami company that advertised for home workers to assemble "Native American" or "hand-crafted bracelets" agreed to a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that permanently bans it from...
United States and European Union Antitrust Agencies Issue "Best Practices" for Coordinating Merger Reviews
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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division Charles A. James, and European Union (EU) Competition Commissioner...
VNR on Information Security Available from the FTC
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What: Produced video news release providing consumer tips on cyber security, featuring FTC Commissioner Orson Swindle and Richard A. Clarke, Chairman, President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection...
Bogus Cancer Cure Guru Settles FTC Charges
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An Internet entrepreneur who marketed bogus cancer cures claiming they made other conventional cancer treatments unnecessary has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that his claims were...
Announced Action for October 25, 2002
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Commission authorization to file for dismissal of relief defendant: The Commission has authorized the staff to file a stipulation discontinuing its action against a relief defendant in an Internet...
FTC Competition Director Speaks on Merger Matters
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Stresses Continued Aggressive Enforcement The Federal Trade Commission's current antitrust enforcement efforts were placed in historical perspective in a major speech delivered yesterday by Joe Simons...
Deceptive Spammers Settle FTC Charges
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Operators who used spam, deceptive earnings claims, and fictitious testimonials to sell spam e-mail lists as business opportunities have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their...
New Jersey Laboratory Charged with Providing False Test Results for Bogus Anthrax Test Kit
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A New Jersey-based testing laboratory has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges over its role in providing false test results for a purported do-it-yourself home anthrax test. Sani-Pure...
Announced Action for October 23, 2002
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Approximately 1,800 Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio consumers will receive letters this week notifying them they may qualify to receive redress under the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission's...
Turn Back the Clock and Move Forward with Internet Security
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What: NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY DAY Who: The Federal Trade Commission’s Cyber Security Web site provides tips, brochures, a "Kidz Quiz," "Dewie" the e-turtle mascot, and consumer education material...
Federal Trade Commission Votes to Challenge Hicks, Muse's Proposed Acquisition of Claussen Pickle Company
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The Federal Trade Commission today authorized its staff to seek a preliminary injunction in federal district court to block the proposed acquisition of Claussen Pickle Company (Claussen) by private...
Canadian Company Targets U.S. Citizens with Phony Credit Card Offers for an Advance Fee
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged a Toronto-based company with eight telemarketing boiler rooms with operating a fraudulent advance-fee credit card business. The defendants' telemarketers told...
Statement of Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy Muris on the FDA's Proposals to Improve Consumer Access To Lower-Cost Generic Drugs
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Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed to clear away unnecessary roadblocks to the approval of generic drug products. I am encouraged by the FDA's important action to address the...
FTC Staff Opposes Ohio Bill To Allow Physician Collective Bargaining
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According to the staff of the Federal Trade Commission, a bill pending before the Ohio legislature that seeks to authorize competing physicians to engage in collective bargaining with health plans...
FTC and DOJ to Hold Roundtable Discussions To Conclude Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy
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The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced times, location, and participants for final roundtable discussions in their joint hearings on...
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