Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated a settlement agreement with an Atlanta, Georgia company, under which the company has agreed to pay $250,000 in consumer redress for allegedly misleading...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received applications for the approval of three transactions from the following: Exxon Mobil Corporation. The applications regard Exxon Mobil's...

Defendants who controlled and operated Screen Test U.S.A. -- a bogus model and talent operation doing business from Connecticut to Florida -- have been permanently banned from marketing and selling...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that David R. Thomas, most recently Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs in the Office of the Vice President, has been named Director of the Commission's...

Public statement on the FTC's 2000 Online Privacy Survey: Later this month, the FTC will conduct a survey of U.S. commercial Web sites to determine the extent to which these sites are collecting...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced it will seek a preliminary injunction in federal District Court to prevent the merger of BP Amoco p.l.c. and Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). The...

Siri Ram Singh Khalsa, one of the individuals named in the Federal Trade Commission's case against several gemstone companies, has accepted a ban from selling any investment opportunity or collectible...

Results of Scholarscam 2000 Internet surf released: Staff of the Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a "surf" of Internet sites that advertise college scholarship services. Called...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions: Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with...

Publication of Federal Register notices: The Commission has announced changes in the two threshold figures that define when it is unlawful for an individual to serve as an officer or director of two...

A Canadian telemarketing company targeting U.S. citizens in a lottery scheme has been temporarily shut down by the Federal Trade Commission and Canadian law enforcement officials. According to the FTC...

The Federal Trade Commission has named the members of its Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and announced that the Advisory Committee's first meeting will be held February 4. The...

The Federal Trade Commission has named the members of its Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and announced that the Advisory Committee's first meeting will be held February 4. The...

A federal judge has ordered Alpine Industries, Inc., a Greenville, Tennessee, manufacturer of ozone generating air treatment machines, and its president, William J. Converse, to stop claiming that...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged a supplier of HIV tests with falsely representing that its HIV tests accurately detected HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The company, Alfa Scientific Designs...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity: New England Tractor Trailer Training School of...

Three national consumer reporting agencies, Equifax Credit Information Services, Inc., (Equifax), Trans Union LLC (Trans Union), and Experian Information Solutions, Inc. (Experian), have agreed to a...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated an agreement containing a proposed consent order designed to remedy the anticompetitive effects arising from Fidelity National Financial, Inc.'s ("FNF")...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions: Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with...

The Bayer Corporation will launch a $1 million consumer education campaign to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made unsubstantiated claims in a series of aspirin ads, in violation of a...