The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are cautioning hospitals and telehealth providers about the privacy and security risks...

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action under the FTC Act and the Opioid Addiction Recovery Fraud Prevention Act of 2018 (OARFPA) against the makers of Sobrenix, which was marketed to reduce and...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment on an application from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and others for a new mechanism for obtaining parental consent under the Children’s...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are releasing a draft update of the Merger Guidelines, which describe and guide the agencies’ review of mergers and acquisitions to...

The Federal Trade Commission and more than 100 federal and state law enforcement partners nationwide, including the attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, announced a new...

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with 101 federal and state law enforcers, will announce “Operation Stop Scam Calls,” a joint-agency crackdown on telemarketers, lead generators, and...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block IQVIA Holdings Inc. (IQVIA), the world’s largest health care data provider, from acquiring Propel Media, Inc. (PMI), alleging in an administrative...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today the withdrawal of two antitrust policy statements related to enforcement in health care markets: Statements of Antitrust Enforcement Policy in Health Care...

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring online counseling service BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million and prohibiting it from sharing consumers’ health data for advertising, resolving...

Today, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan announced that an open meeting of the Commission will be held virtually on Thursday, July 20, 2023. The open meeting will commence at 11am ET and...

The Federal Trade Commission testified today before the House Judiciary Committee on the agency’s work to ensure open, competitive, and fair markets and to protect consumers from fraud, scams and...

The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with bankrupt cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network that will permanently ban it from handling consumers’ assets and charged three former...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new blog post warning consumers about scammers who are impersonating FTC staff members. The post highlights a number of key lies that scammers tell when they...

A Federal Trade Commission lawsuit against the operators of a telemarketing scam that called hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide pitching “extended automobile warranties” will result in a...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Florida Attorney General are sending refunds totaling more than $540,000 to consumers nationwide who were defrauded by Life Management Services of Orange County...

As part of its ongoing monitoring of health-related advertising claims, the Federal Trade Commission today sent cease and desist letters – jointly with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – to...

On Friday, June 30, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission vacated the Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) initial decision in the administrative litigation challenging an alleged unlawful agreement between...

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan issued the following statement regarding nominees to the Commission announced by the White House today: “I congratulate Andrew Ferguson and Melissa Holyoak...

The Federal Trade Commission filed a friend-of-the-court (amicus) brief in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, clarifying legal standards that apply in antitrust cases...

Today, FTC Chair Lina M. Khan, and Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya unanimously issued a joint statement in response to an article in The Wall Street Journal regarding the...