Press Releases

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 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...

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 Federal Trade Commission has obtained agreements with three companies addressing concerns that recent coupon and cash rebate offers were either false or misleading. Through the first proposed...

Federal Trade Commission staff today announced the results of their second "surf" of sites that advertise and sell jewelry on the World Wide Web. Although compliance with the FTC's Jewelry Guides...

Publication of Federal Register notice regarding regulatory reviews for calendar year 2000 : The Commission has voted to publish a notice in the Federal Register listing its regulatory reviews...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public forum to review the "do-not-call" provision of the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The "do-not-call" provision prohibits sellers or telemarketers...

Online auction house ReverseAuction.com, Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated consumers' privacy by harvesting consumers' personal information from a competitor...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent agreement that would allow RHI AG (RHI) to acquire Global Industrial Technologies, Inc. (Global), while addressing the competitive concerns...

Appointment of hold separate trustee : The FTC has approved the appointment of Deloitte Consulting LLC as a hold-separate trustee in the following matter: Exxon Mobil Corporation. This trustee is...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a consent order, subject to final Commission approval, that would allow the purchase of Polyfibron Technologies, Inc. by MacDermid, Inc., while resolving the...

Applications for approval of transactions : The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following: Exxon Mobil Corporation. The application regards Exxon Mobil's...

In an ongoing sweep of pyramid scams on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission and 26 state law enforcers have targeted over 600 Internet pyramid sites for law enforcement action. "We're keeping a...