The Federal Trade Commission will hold a public workshop on July 20, 1999, to explore appropriate methods to obtain parental consent in conjunction with the FTC's rulemaking on the Children's Online...

Albertson's, Inc. and American Stores Company have agreed to sell 144 supermarkets and five supermarket sites in order to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that Albertston's proposed...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky today told the House Judiciary Committee that a proposed antitrust exemption to allow physicians and other health care professionals to engage in...

The Federal Trade Commission will announce "Operation Cure.All," a comprehensive law enforcement and consumer education campaign to combat deceptive health claims on the Internet at a press conference...

In a crackdown on operations that targeted hundreds of thousands of small businesses, "cramming" charges onto their telephone bills for services that were supposed to be free, the Federal Trade...

What: Press conference to announce law enforcement initiative and public/private partnership to attack scams that target small businesses with the lure of "free" Internet services -- then cram...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Coupon Information Center (CIC) today announced the results of a Coupon Internet "Surf Day." Fifty-one Internet advertisements were identified as potentially...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following: Federal Register Notices : Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals and Pewter Industries The Commission has published a Federal Register...

In a deal that would provide more than $39 million in redress for U.S. consumers, American TelNet (ATN), one of the largest providers of "audiotext" services -- audio entertainment services offered...

Tiger Direct, Inc., a large mail order seller of computer products, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made false and misleading statements in its ads and promotional...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley, in introductory remarks today at the Federal Trade Commission's Workshop on Consumer Protection in the Global Marketplace, urged the...

Good morning. Welcome to the Federal Trade Commission's public workshop on consumer protection in the global electronic market place. When we address issues concerning the global electronic market...

Last month at the Commerce Department we had a similar packed house for a conference. We were discussing ways to include e-commerce in government statistics. The fact is, people in the private sector...

In an effort to determine whether domestic and foreign companies are disclosing important information to consumers online, the Federal Trade Commission staff conducted an informal International Web...

As many as 13,000 consumers in at least nine countries who were duped by a copycat Internet domain name registry will qualify for refunds under an agreement announced by Australian and U.S. consumer...

Administrative Law Judge Stuart A. Levin has dismissed Federal Trade Commission charges that VISX, one of the first companies to develop laser eye surgery equipment and technology, known as...

Consumer protection in the global electronic marketplace will be the subject of a two-day workshop at the Federal Trade Commission. The workshop to be held on Tuesday, June 8 and Wednesday, June 9...

The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection will hold a public forum titled, " The Consumer and Credit Scoring" on Thursday, July 22, 1999. The forum will provide an opportunity for...

The Federal Trade Commission, in a joint effort with the Department of Justice, will conduct a study on the marketing practices of the entertainment industry to determine whether and to what extent...

If someone stops you on the street, hands you a card, and tells you "you've got the look," you may be on your way to becoming the victim of a modeling scam, the Federal Trade Commission advises. That...