Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission has reached consent agreements with online retailers BUY.COM and Value America, and the Office Depot retail chain, over charges they engaged in deceptive practices in...

ACTION: Request for submission of comments regarding filtering, labeling or rating services in preparation for the July hearing of the Commission on Online Child Protection. SUMMARY: The Commission on...

Presenting Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the House of Representatives' Commerce Committee regarding recent gasoline price increases in the Midwest, FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky...

Information brokers who used deceptive methods to obtain private financial data about consumers and then sold the data through their Web site without the knowledge or consent of the consumers have...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a two day public workshop on June 29 and 30, 2000, to examine issues of competition policy that arise in connection with business-to-business ("B2B") electronic...

The Federal Trade Commission's annual report to Congress on cigarette sales and advertising for 1998 shows that cigarette sales fell from 1997 to 1998, but advertising and promotional expenditures...

The seven largest U.S. cigar companies have agreed to include warnings about significant adverse health risks of cigar use in their advertising and packaging in a settlement announced today by Federal...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Illinois inspected 14 used car dealers near the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Waukegan, North Chicago and Park City last Wednesday to...