Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate subcommittee that legislation to combat credit identity theft could help consumers by defining identity theft as a crime and providing for consumer...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission have advised Phoenix Medical Network, Inc., a proposed physician network in Erie, Pennsylvania, that they have no present intention to recommend a challenge to...

A business that claimed it could obtain unsecured credit cards -- even for consumers with past credit problems -- for up-front "processing fees" of up to $129 has agreed to settle Federal Trade...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission today filed a comment with the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) in response to its request for comments about the "Market Structure, Market Power...

The Federal Trade Commission today unveiled a "roadmap" on the Web that will show consumers how to protect their personal information from public access. This "one stop shop" for consumer privacy...

The remaining two defendants sued by the Federal Trade Commission in 1995 as part of "Project Telesweep" -- a nationwide crackdown on business opportunity fraud -- have agreed to settle the federal...

Darryl André, and three other individual defendants, operating under a host of assumed names, including Premier Card Services, have agreed to settle federal and state charges that they deceptively...