The Federal Trade Commission today informed the founders of the proposed Covisint business-to-business (B2B) venture that the Commission has closed its investigation of whether the formation of...

Commission Calls for Additional Industry Steps to Improve Existing Rating Systems The Federal Trade Commission today released its report titled "Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Review...

What: Press conference to release and discuss FTC report entitled "Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: A Review of Self Regulation and Industry Practices in the Motion Picture, Music...

The Federal Trade Commission presented a statement yesterday on the following subject before the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Board), in San Francisco, California: Predatory...

The Federal Trade Commission has won a $37.5 million verdict against a California-based adult Web site operation the FTC charged with operating an illegal billing scam. The agency alleged the...

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection today released a report titled "Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace: Looking Ahead." The report looks at several...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced two proposed agreements settling charges that Consumer Money Markets, Inc. (CMM), Continental Direct Services, Inc. (CDS) and several individuals and firms...

Innovative Productions, based in Dallas, Texas, and its owner, Shane D. Walls, have agreed to a court order prohibiting them from making false or misleading claims about income, profit or sales volume...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following: Bertelsman Music Group; EMI/Capitol Records; Sony Music...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed charges in federal court against several participants involved in the allegedly deceptive advertising of "The Enforma System" weight loss products. The complaint...

Publication of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the following: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Privacy Act -- Safeguards...

Calls answered by the Federal Trade Commission's Identity Theft hotline have tripled in the last six months according to FTC testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Technology...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a modified consent agreement with the following: BP Amoco p.l.c., et al. The modification made...

Commission action regarding prior FTC order: The Commission has approved an action regarding a final order concerning the following: Hoechst AG, et al. The terms of FTC Docket No. C-3919, finalized on...

Action Loan Company, Inc., of Louisville, Kentucky, and its owner and president, Gus Goldsmith, have agreed to pay a $350,000 civil penalty and up to a total of $37,000 in consumer redress as part of...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposed settlement with a California-based debt collection agency, Performance Capital Management, Inc. (PCM), under which the company would be fined $2...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that for the third time in four years it has completed a law enforcement sweep of the United States travel industry. The FTC has been working together with...

The owners and operators of www.playgirl.com, www.highsociety.com and scores of other adult Web sites have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with illegally billing thousands of consumers...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has unanimously upheld a Federal Trade Commission decision ordering the maker of Doan's Pills to run corrective advertising. The Court's...

The Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice and 47 other federal, state and local law enforcement and consumer protection agencies have surfed the Web looking for illegal scams that...