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FTC Recommends Congress Require the Data Broker Industry to be More Transparent and Give Consumers Greater Control Over Their Personal Information
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In a report on the data broker industry, the FTC finds that data brokers operate with a fundamental lack of transparency.
May23
Native American Common Ground
Join the Federal Trade Commission, the office of the Attorney General from New Mexico, legal services attorneys, and other consumer advocates at this free event to discuss issues facing consumers...
Commission Letter From Jessica L. Rich, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Filed With the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York -- in In re ConnectEDU, Inc., No. 14-11238 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.)
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Jessica L. Rich, Former Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection
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Text of the Commission Letter
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FTC Seeks Protection for Students’ Personal Information in Education Technology Company ConnectEdu’s Bankruptcy Proceeding
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The Federal Trade Commission has authorized staff of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection to send a letter to the court overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings of education technology company...
FTC Testifies on Patent Assertion Entities and Legislation to Prohibit Deceptive Patent Demand Letters
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The Federal Trade Commission testified on consumer protection issues involving patent demand letters, patent assertion entities (PAEs), and proposed legislation to prohibit deceptive patent demand...
Debt Collectors Who Posed as Process Servers and Intimidated Consumers Settle with FTC
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A Southern California debt collection operation, Asset Capital and Management Group, will surrender more than $4 million for consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it...
Public Statement
Working Together to Protect Consumers
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Working Together to Protect Consumers
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FTC Charges Green Coffee Bean Sellers with Deceiving Consumers through Fake News Sites and Bogus Weight Loss Claims
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The Federal Trade Commission has sued a Florida-based operation that capitalized on the green coffee diet fad by using bogus weight loss claims and fake news websites to market the dietary supplement...
FTC Puts Texas-based Operation Permanently Out of the Debt Collection Business After It Allegedly Used Deception, Insults, and False Threats against Consumers
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The owner of a Houston-based debt collection operation that the FTC charged used insults, lies, and false threats of imprisonment to collect on payday loans will surrender his assets, estimated to be...
FTC Staff: Missouri and New Jersey Should Repeal Their Prohibitions on Direct-to-Consumer Auto Sales by Manufacturers
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FTC staff submitted written comments to Missouri State Rep. Michael J. Colona and New Jersey State Assemblyman Paul D. Moriarty...
FTC Outlines Recommendations for Online Advertising In Testimony Before Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee
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The Federal Trade Commission testified before Congress today on the agency’s ongoing efforts to protect consumers from emerging threats related to online advertising, as well as the Commission’s...
FTC Settlement Bans Pyramid Scheme Operators From Multi-Level Marketing
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The operators must also surrender assets totaling at least $7.75 million, which will be returned to consumers.
FTC Sends Full Refunds to Consumers Duped by Marketers of Bogus ‘$10,000 Credit Line’
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The FTC is mailing checks totaling over $3.7 million to 26,176 consumers whose bank accounts were debited without their consent by EDebitPay LLC, Dale Paul Cleveland and William Wilson. The defendants...
FTC Approves Final Consent Orders Settling Charges that Companies Deceptively Claimed Their Genetically Modified Nutritional Supplements Could Treat Diseases
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Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved final consent orders settling charges that two marketers of genetically customized nutritional supplements deceptively...
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