Commission Actions

“I am highly encouraged by the Council of Better Business Bureaus’ initiative on children’s food and beverage advertising, and I commend the Council for taking these important steps. The Federal Trade...

Commission authorization of staff amicus brief filing: The Commission has voted to join in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court by the United States in the consolidated cases of Safeco Insurance...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today announced that Mary Beth Richards will join the agency as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. Richards comes to the FTC...

A U.S. district court has shut down an operation that secretly downloaded multiple malevolent software programs, including spyware, onto millions of computers without consumers’ consent, degrading...

Two Canadian brothers and their companies, charged by the Federal Trade Commission in 2003 with deceptively telling elderly U.S. consumers they had won the Australian or other foreign lotteries, have...

An operation that sold worthless prep materials for post office jobs that didn’t exist will give up almost all of their assets to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the scam violated federal...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division today announced that the latest in a series of joint public hearings designed to examine the implications of...