Commission Actions

Issuance of Commission report: The Commission has issued its annual report to the Federal Reserve Board on FTC enforcement actions in 2005 related to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Consumer Leasing...

An automated phone dialing service hung up on more than 64 million people and called more than a million others whose numbers were listed on the National Do Not Call Registry, according to the Federal...

False promises of a pre-approved, guaranteed MasterCard for a fee have been halted by a U.S. District Court at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC is also announcing today charges...

Investigations closing: The Commission’s Bureau of Competition has closed its investigation into the acquisition by Comcast Corporation (Comcast) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) of the cable assets...

WHO: Federal Trade Commission U.S. Postal Inspection Service State of Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions Consumer representative WHEN: Thursday, February 2, 2006 10:30 AM WHERE: Federal Trade...

The Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California are hosting a...

The creator of allegedly false and misleading advertising for Gero Vita International’s dietary supplements has settled Federal Trade Commission charges. Chase Revel is required to post a $1 million...

February 5-11 is the week to focus on consumer protection! Each year, National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) highlights consumer protection and education efforts across the country. During the week...

Commission authorization of the filing of staff comment: The Commission has authorized the staffs of the Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Consumer Protection, and Bureau of Economics to file a...

Consumer data broker ChoicePoint, Inc., which last year acknowledged that the personal financial records of more than 163,000 consumers in its database had been compromised, will pay $10 million in...

En el día de hoy la Comisión Federal de Comercio ( Federal Trade Commission, FTC), el Servicio de Inspección Postal de EE.UU. ( U.S. Postal Inspection Service, USPIS) y la Cámara Hispana de Comercio...