Laptop Lockup
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FTC Offers Tips for Laptop Security Consumers can take many measures to make their laptop secure from hackers, viruses, and other potential threats, such as installing firewalls, updating antivirus...
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Concluding Two-Year Rulemaking, FTC Announces New EnergyGuide Label
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced it has concluded a two-year review of the FTC’s Appliance Labeling Rule (16 C.F.R. Part 305) and, after substantial public comment and consumer research...
FTC Stops Prepaid Stored-Value Card Sellers From Improper Debiting
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal judge has temporarily halted an operation marketing Visa- and MasterCard-branded stored-value cards from making unauthorized debits from...
FTC to Host Town Hall to Examine Privacy Issues and Online Behavioral Advertising
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The FTC will host a two-day Town Hall to bring together consumer advocates, industry representatives, technology experts, and academics to address the consumer protection issues raised by the practice...
Refunds for Consumers Who Purchased Xenadrine EFX
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From August 6 until September 15, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission will be accepting refund requests from consumers who bought Xenadrine EFX. The FTC alleged that Xenadrine EFX was advertised with...
Commission Rules that Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp.s Acquisition of Highland Park Hospital Was Anticompetitive
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In an administrative opinion and order made public today, the Federal Trade Commission ruled that Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp.’s (ENH) acquisition of Highland Park Hospital (Highland Park)...
FTC, Subprime Mortgage Servicer Agree to Modified Settlement
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has reached an agreement with a major subprime mortgage servicer to modify certain terms of a 2003 court settlement, providing substantial benefits...
FTC Asks Court to Order Ab Belt Makers to Return Money to Consumers
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The Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal district court to order the marketers of Ab Force to return money to consumers who purchased their belts based on the marketers’s advertising claims...
FTC Testifies on Fighting Fraudulent and Abusive Telemarketing
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The Federal Trade Commission today told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety that targeting fraudulent and...
FTC Seeks Comments on the Uses of Social Security Numbers in the Private SectorGoal to Reduce ID Theft
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comments on the uses of Social Security numbers in the private sector to reduce the overall incidence of ID theft, which often relies on SSNs. The FTC also...
FTC Charges Puerto Rico Optometrists Group, Two of its Leaders, With Orchestrating Price-Fixing Conspiracy
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A group representing all optometrists in Puerto Rico, along with two of its leaders, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the FTC Act by orchestrating and carrying...
Cross-Border Telemarketers Face FTC Charges for Deceptive Phone Card Pitches
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged a group of Canadian telemarketers with deceiving U.S. consumers through the sale of telephone calling cards. According to the Commission, Fusion Telekom and...
FTC Testifies Before U.S. House Subcommittee on Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data and FTC Lending Enforcement Program
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The Federal Trade Commission today told the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, that the agency is conducting several fair lending investigations of...
FTC Stops Massive, Deceptive Telemarketer
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The Federal Trade Commission, with assistance from local police and the United States Postal Inspection Service, today halted the operations of a massive, Largo, Florida-based telemarketing scheme...
FTC Releases Report on Effects of Credit-Based Insurance Scores
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The Federal Trade Commission today released a report presenting the results of a study concerning credit-based insurance scores and automobile insurance. The study found that these scores are...
Commission Approves Issuance of FY2006 HSR Premerger Notification Report
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Release of Commission report: The Commission, with the concurrence of the U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, has authorized the release of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Report to Congress...
FTC Testifies on Potential Risks of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
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The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that consumer use of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology can be risky and discussed the work the FTC has...
Business Opportunity Marketers Pay $122,000 to Consumers to Settle FTC Charges
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Prohibited from Making False Earnings Claims, Similar Deceptions in the Future An operation that was charged with deceptively marketing candy vending machine business opportunities will give back $122...
FTC Issues Clarification to Consumers Who Received a Refund Check from the USA Immigration Services Redress Program
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Commission Clarification: On July 9, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission began issuing refund checks to certain customers of USA Immigration Services. The letter accompanying those checks stated that...
Federal and State Agencies Announce Pilot Project to Improve Supervision of Subprime Mortgage Lenders
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Three federal agencies and two associations of state regulators will cooperate in an innovative pilot project to conduct targeted consumer-protection compliance reviews of selected non-depository...
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