Report
Financial Privacy Notice: A Report on Validation Testing Results (Kleimann Validation Report)
Date
A summary of the results of a small-scale study to validate the final set of changes to the prototype privacy notice.
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Companies Agree to Pay $2.25 Million as Part of FTC Crackdown on Fraud in the Prepaid Calling Card Industry
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Major prepaid calling card companies have agreed to pay $2.25 million as part of a settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims to consumers about the number of...
FTC Targets Weight-Loss Marketers Allegedly Bogus Free Sample Offers
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Two dietary supplement marketers that lured consumers on the Internet with allegedly deceptive weight-loss claims and bogus “free” sample offers, and then debited their bank accounts or charged their...
Court Rules in Favor of FTC in National Urological Group Case; Orders Marketers of Thermalean, Lipodrene, and Spontane-ES to Pay More Than $15 Million
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A federal district court has ordered the marketers of three dietary supplements to pay more than $15 million for deceiving consumers about the products’ safety and effectiveness. The court imposed the...
Dinamica Financiera LLC
Type of Action
Process Enforcement
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
082 3103
Case Status
Closed
FTC Settles Charges with Telemarketers Who Duped Elderly Consumers
Date
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal district court has entered orders settling charges against three telemarketers who allegedly duped consumers, most of whom were elderly, into...
FTC Issues Report on Social Security Numbers and Identity Theft
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The Federal Trade Commission issued a report today recommending five measures to help prevent Social Security numbers from being used for identity theft. Principal among the report’s recommendations...
Report
Quantitative Research - Levy-Hastak Report
Date
File
quantitative_research_-_levy-hastak_report.pdf
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Sony BMG Music Settles Charges Its Music Fan Websites Violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Sony Music) has agreed to pay $1 million as part of a settlement to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act...
Sony BMG Music Entertainment, a general partnership subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, United States of America (For the Federal Trade Commission)
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
082 3071
Court Orders Halt to Sale of Spyware
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court has issued a temporary restraining order halting the sale of keylogger spyware. According to the FTC’s complaint, the Florida...
Mortgage Company Settles Data Security Charges
Date
A Texas-based mortgage lender has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable security to protect sensitive customer data. The lender made...
Tips for Smart Holiday Shopping
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In these tough economic times, smart shopping during the holiday season is more important than ever. Whether consumers are shopping online, by phone, or in stores, the Federal Trade Commission, the...
FTC Stops Fake 'Yellow Pages' Marketers Who Bilked Spanish-Speaking Businesses in Cross-Border Scam
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court judge has frozen the assets of a Canadian operation and ordered a halt to its allegedly unlawful practices - billing businesses in...
'Operation Clean Sweep': FTC and State Agencies Target 36 'Credit Repair' Operations
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The Federal Trade Commission and 24 state agencies today announced a crackdown on 33 operations that deceptively claim they can remove negative information from consumers' credit reports, even if that...
Sep25
Consumer Protection and the Debt Settlement Industry
The Federal Trade Commission staff will hold a workshop on September 25, 2008 to explore the growth of the for-profit debt settlement industry and to analyze how its model is affecting consumers and...
Sep23
Transatlantic RFID Workshop on Consumer Privacy and Data Security
The Federal Trade Commission staff will hold a workshop on September 23, 2008, to explore emerging applications of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and their implications for consumer...
FTC Sweep Stops Peddlers of Bogus Cancer Cures
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced 11 law enforcement actions challenging deceptive advertising of bogus cancer cures. The FTC charged the companies with making unsupported claims that their...
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