Press Releases

What: PRESS CONFERENCE Who: William J. Baer, Director FTC Bureau of Competition When: 2:30 P.M, Monday, June 8, 1998 Where: Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Room 432 Washington...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received applications for approval of transactions from the following. The FTC is seeking public comments on the applications for 30 days, until...

Consumers have little privacy protection on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission said today as it released its "Report to Congress on Privacy Online." The report, a comprehensive analysis of the...

Representatives of the United States and the European Communities today signed an agreement clarifying the circumstances under which they will refer cases of anticompetitve activities to each other...

In testimony today before the House Committee on the Judiciary, William J. Baer, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, outlined, on behalf of the Commission, the agency’s...

Gary Walton, doing business as Pinnacle Financial Services, has agreed to settle federal charges that he allegedly assisted Canadian telemarketers in their fraudulent advance fee loan scheme directed...

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

The Federal Trade Commission joined with other federal agencies and filed comments on May 29, 1998, with the Federal Reserve Board (Board) advocating changes in its Regulation B and Regulation C. The...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission filed a comment on May 29, 1998, with the Maine Department of the Attorney General and Public Utilities Commission regarding "The Interim Report on Market...

What: Federal Trade Commission Report on Privacy Online The report assesses the current state of industry self-regulation as a means of protecting consumer privacy -- including children's privacy --...

Konrad King, and his company, Konrad King, Inc. of Las Vegas, Nevada, have settled Federal Trade Commission charges stemming from their role in the FTC's case against Woofter Investment Corporation...

Southwest Marketing Concepts, Inc., d/b/a The Journal -- The Voice of Law Enforcement, and its principal, Stephen Inmon, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they misrepresented...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received applications for approval of a transaction from the following entity. The FTC is seeking public comments on the applications for 30 days...

Companies that used celebrities, including Robin Leach, to tout luxury vacations in tropical settings, have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with operating a scam in violation of federal...

Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a public comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition from the following: The Commission has granted a petition from...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged a New York-based drycleaning operation with providing wedding gown manufacturers with care labels that violate the Care Labeling Rule, and with falsely...

The Federal Trade Commission has denied a petition from the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) proposing the Commission initiate a rulemaking proceeding to prohibit the issuance of travel agent...

Five institutional pharmacies have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they unlawfully fixed prices, leading to higher reimbursement levels for serving Medicaid patients in Oregon...

The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate subcommittee that legislation to combat credit identity theft could help consumers by defining identity theft as a crime and providing for consumer...

A company that claimed consumers could earn big money by investing in its home-based medical "billing center" business opportunity has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its...