Commission Actions

The sixth annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW) is February 1-7, 2004. Each year, NCPW highlights consumer protection and education efforts across the country. The theme for this year’s...

La semana del 1º al 7 de febrero de 2004, marca la Semana Nacional de Protección del Consumidor (National Consumer Protection Week, NCPW) por sexto año consecutivo. Cada año, la semana llamada NCPW...

The United States Federal Trade Commission and 36 additional agencies in 26 countries today announced “Operation Secure Your Server,” an international effort to reduce the flow of unsolicited...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Competition, and Bureau of Economics have sent a letter to Alabama House of Representatives Speaker Pro Tempore, Demetrius C. Newton...

In response to an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission has submitted a comment to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) addressing how “qualified...

The Federal Trade Commission today issued its third quarterly summary announcement detailing the agency’s continued enforcement against telemarketing fraud and abuse. The quarterly enforcement summary...

As required by the CAN-SPAM Act, the Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposal to establish a mark or notice that will be required for inclusion in spam that contains sexually oriented...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new consumer alert, “Who’s Spamming Who? Could it be You?,” that warns consumers of spammers who may be compromising other people’s computers to send...

Beginning January 29, 2004, telemarketers must transmit Caller ID information in order to comply with the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). This information will help...