Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a blog to provide information and a forum for feedback about its public hearings on “Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade,” to be held November 6-8, 2006...

Improving consumer access to broadband Internet service is an important goal for federal, state, and local governments. The possibility of competitive risks arising from municipal participation in...

Commission approval of amended complaint: The Commission has approved the filing of an amended complaint in the matter concerning Nationwide Connections, Inc. The original complaint, filed in March...

Commission approval of staff comments to the Virginia House of Delegates: The FTC has approved the filing of comments by the staffs of the Bureaus of Competition and Economics and the Office of Policy...

An Internet business that advertised and sold consumers’ phone records and records of credit card accounts to third parties has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated...

An insulation seller will pay a $104,257 civil penalty to settle charges that it made false and misleading performance claims about its insulation product known as “The Barrier.” The settlement...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its decision to intervene in the formation of United Launch Alliance, L.L.C. (ULA), a proposed joint venture between The Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice concerning two recent petitions asking the FTC to amend the call abandonment...

Qchex, an Internet-based check creation and delivery service, has agreed to a temporary restraining order to halt its unfair business practices. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court, the...

The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that protecting the privacy of consumers’ telephone records requires a...

The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters to 166 advertisers and 77 media outlets warning them that their advertisements targeting Hispanics are potentially deceptive. The ads were spotted during...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its latest law enforcement actions against scammers targeting Hispanics with their unlawful business practices. The cases, part of the FTC’s Hispanic...

The Federal Trade Commission, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, and the Manhattan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will hold a...

As requested by the Federal Trade Commission, a federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against a nationwide operation that claimed it could reduce consumers’ debt by up to 60 percent...

The Federal Trade Commission today told the U.S. Senate that access to Whois databases – the directories that contain information about Web site operators – are "critical to the agency’s consumer...

The federal district court in Chicago has ruled for the Federal Trade Commission in its case against the marketers of the Q-Ray ionized bracelet following a bench trial earlier this summer. In a...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice today submitted a joint comment to the Virginia State Bar urging against adoption of the Bar’s proposal to prevent non-lawyers and...

WASHINGTON – The President’s Identity Theft Task Force has adopted interim recommendations on measures that can be implemented immediately to help address the problem of identity theft, Attorney...

An operation that promised to help consumers register for and obtain postal employment, but allegedly did neither, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated federal law...

Filing of FTC comments with the Federal Reserve Board: The Commission has approved the filing of comments with the Federal Reserve Board on the Board’s recent notice regarding “The Home Equity Lending...