Press Releases 2021

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a settlement with a mortgage industry data analytics firm that will require the company to bolster its data security protections and oversight...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Clarence L. Werner, founder of the Omaha, Nebraska-based truckload carrier Werner Enterprises, Inc. will pay a $486,900 civil penalty to settle...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that restaurant chain owner and investment fund operator Biglari Holdings Inc. will pay a $1.4 million civil penalty to settle charges that two...

Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that the Alabama Board of Dental Examiners, a body controlled by licensed dentists, violated...

The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order banning a stalkerware provider and its CEO f rom the surveillance business to settle allegations the company secretly harvested and shared data on...

Global Partners LP and Richard Wiehl have agreed to divest to Petroleum Marketing Investment Group, LLC, seven stores that sell gasoline and diesel fuel in five local markets in Connecticut, to settle...

The Federal Trade Commission joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Board of the Federal Reserve in an amicus brief filed with the United States Court...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that Lois C. Greisman, Associate Director for Marketing Practices, Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP), has received the 2021 Presidential Rank Award. “I...

The Federal Trade Commission launched a rulemaking today aimed at combating government and business impersonation fraud, a pernicious and prevalent problem that has grown worse during the pandemic...

MyLife.com, Inc. and its CEO, Jeffrey Tinsley, have been banned from engaging in deceptive negative option marketing and will pay $21 million following allegations that they tricked consumers with...

California-based online advertising platform OpenX Technologies, Inc. will be required to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company collected personal information...

A group of phantom debt collectors will be permanently banned from the debt collection industry and required to surrender the contents of numerous bank and investment accounts under the terms of a...

Today, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan announced that an open meeting of the Commission will be held virtually on Thursday, December 16, 2021. The open meeting will begin at 1pm ET and...

The Federal Trade Commission is returning an additional $25 million to consumers who lost money to a business coaching scheme that used the names Coaching Department and Apply Knowledge, among others...

A new Federal Trade Commission data spotlight shows that in the first nine months of 2021, consumers reported losing $148 million in scams where gift cards were used as the form of payment. That...

Leadership of the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission launched the EU-US Joint...

The Federal Trade Commission and its state co-plaintiffs , New York, California, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, filed an order in court today that shuts down an illegal...

The Federal Trade Commission filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts advising the court that the FTC’s Franchise Rule does not address and cannot be...

Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition Director Holly Vedova issued the following statement regarding the report that Great Outdoors Group, LLC and Sportsman’s Warehouse Holdings, Inc. have...

Leadership of the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice attended meetings in London this week as part of the Competition Enforcers Summit, which took place...