Commission Actions

Federal Trade Commission staff and the Justice Department today announced a letter urging the Massachusetts House of Representatives to adopt a bill that would enable nonlawyers to compete with...

What: Consumer agencies are hosting a one day conference with both law enforcement and community groups to discuss the scope and nature of the problems and ways of addressing it. Who: Elaine Kolish...

The Federal Trade Commission has asked a U.S. District Court to shut down a spyware operation that hijacks computers, secretly changes their settings, barrages them with pop-up ads, and installs...

FTC staff comments on Arkansas state contact lens laws: In response to an inquiry from Arkansas Representative Doug Matayo, Federal Trade Commission staff in the agency’s Office of Policy Planning...

Press conference to announce a law enforcement action targeting “spyware” – software that takes control of consumers’ computers or monitors their Internet use without their consent. Who: Lydia Parnes...

The Federal Trade Commission cooperates with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners in the fight against telemarketing fraud. As part of Protecting Older Americans from Fraud Month, the...

A relief defendant in a case against a defunct New Jersey collection agency charged with dunning consumers for debts they did not owe has agreed to turn over money she obtained as a result of the...