Press Releases 2002

New York, NY -- The Federal Trade Commission's Northeast Regional Office and John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York are teaming up to announce "Project Credit Smarts...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) formally has released its Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks. The Guidelines consist of nine principles...

PeoplePC, Inc., a San Francisco, California-based seller of personal computers, computer peripherals, software, and Internet service, will pay a $100,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade...

On-line sellers of generic and remanufactured inkjet printer cartridge refills have agreed to pay a $40,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they engaged in deceptive...

What: News Conference: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service with the Federal Trade Commission is announcing a national fraud prevention campaign to help senior citizens, who are often targets of...

American Career Services, Inc. (ACS), a Mobile, Alabama-based corporation, and Douglas Holcomb, its president, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and deceptive...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted for public comment a proposed order with Libbey Inc. and Newell Rubbermaid Inc. (collectively, the respondents) to resolve alleged anticompetitive effects in...

System Health Providers (SHP) and its parent corporation, Genesis Physicians Group, Inc. (GPG), most of whose approximately 1,250 members are physicians practicing in the eastern part of the Dallas...

The Commission has approved the issuance of a final consent order in the matter concerning Biovail Corporation and Elan Corporation, plc, and authorized a response letter to be sent to the one...

Eight Denver, Colorado, area physician practice groups specializing in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYNs), along with their non-physician agent and his corporation, have agreed to settle Federal...

– The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amicus brief in the action currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama captioned Carter v. ICR Services Inc....

In comments provided last week at the request of New York Governor George Pataki, staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and Office of Policy Planning noted that two pieces of...

MSC.Software Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that its 1999 acquisitions of Universal Analytics, Inc. (UAI) and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp....

The Commission has approved the final accounting by the divestiture trustee in the matter concerning the merger of Chevron Corporation and Texaco Inc. The order required ChevronTexaco, before...

Microsoft Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges regarding the privacy and security of personal information collected from consumers through its "Passport" web services. As...

FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris will announce the settlement terms of a Commission enforcement action at a press conference on THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2002 at 11:00 a.m. in Room 432 of the FTC. What: Press...

The Federal Trade Commission has released an agenda for the workshop on competition law and policy for health care financing and delivery, which will be held on September 9-10, 2002, in Washington, D...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has settled two cases - one against Philips Electronics North America Corporation (Philips) and the other against TimWofford (Wofford), president...

A scheme that used deceptive "rebate" checks to dupe consumers into unwittingly signing up for Internet service violates a federal law that bars unfair and deceptive practices according to a federal...

The Commission has received an application for approval of a proposed divestiture concerning its April 15, 2002, consent agreement with Biovail Corporation (Biovail) . Under the terms of the proposed...