Commission Actions

Period Characterized by Rapid Structural Change that Transformed the Industry Staff of the Federal Trade Commission today released a report examining U.S. antitrust policy in the 1980s and early 1990s...

A new report issued by staff of the Federal Trade Commission highlights how the agency has worked to stop online fraud and deception, address the issue of online privacy and tailor its law enforcement...

The only two firms that market lasers to perform a new, and increasingly popular, vision correcting eye surgery, photorefractive keratectomy (“PRK”), were charged today by the Federal Trade Commission...

Every year, thousands of consumers respond to enticing classified ads in newspapers that tout “money to loan . . . regardless of credit.” The problem, according to the Federal Trade Commission and 15...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a public workshop on March 26 and 27, 1996 to discuss "Made in USA" advertising and labeling claims. This past July, the FTC announced that it would hold a...

A federal judge has ordered a magazine subscription seller to pay a civil penalty of more than $5.4 million and give up more than $1.6 million of his ill-gotten gains for violating a 1996 Federal...

Release of Commission report: The Commission, with the concurrence of the Acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, has authorized the release of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Report to...

Social networking Web site operators Xanga.com, Inc. and its principals, Marc Ginsburg and John Hiler, will pay a $1 million civil penalty for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy...

A U.S. district court has entered an order barring unlawful activities by an operation that allegedly crammed unauthorized charges on the phone bills of small businesses or nonprofits for Web site...

An operation that placed spyware on consumers’ computers in violation of federal laws will give up more than $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. Under a stipulated final judgment...

The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the agency protects health care consumers from anti-competitive conduct by enforcing antitrust laws, and that the FTC is...