Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated the largest civil penalty ever obtained in a settlement of alleged violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). Franklin Acceptance Corporation...

Dell Computer Corp. and Micron Electronics, Inc. have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their computer lease advertisements violated federal laws. According to the agency, both...

"Since 1995, the Federal Trade Commission has encouraged online firms to offer privacy protections to consumers to encourage broad participation in electronic commerce. Last year, the FTC reported to...

Fitness Quest, Inc., based in Canton, Ohio, and its president, Robert R. Schnabel, Jr., have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made numerous unsubstantiated claims in...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal district court judge has permanently barred Inetintl.Com, Inc., doing business as Inet International, and two individual defendants from...

National Credit Management Group of Fort Lee and Edgewater, New Jersey, and its principals, Glen Buzzetti and Joseph Ferguson, have agreed to settle charges brought against them by the Federal Trade...

Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson testified today on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission before a House Subcommittee on deregulation and competition in the electric power industry. Thompson spoke to...

In another effort to address children's online privacy, the Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement with Liberty Financial Companies, Inc., the operator of the Young Investor website...

A federal court has entered an order against Equity Funding & Associates, Inc., also known as Equity Funding Insurance Agency, Inc., and its president, John Cini of Bloomfield, Michigan. The order...

The Federal Trade Commission announces the following actions. FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky will present Commission testimony today before the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights...

In the latest law enforcement initiative targeting ads that use deceptive performance claims to tout motor oil additives, the Federal Trade Commission has charged the marketers of Dura Lube Super...

American Urological Corporation and several other companies have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they lied about the effectiveness of products to treat impotence. The FTC had...

In a wholesale crackdown on scam artists who promise consumers a new credit identity without telling them that if consumers take their advice, they'll be violating federal law, the Federal Trade...

The substantive elements of an antitrust cooperation agreement between the United States and Japan were announced today in Washington, D.C. The agreement, which will be finalized in the near future...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced it is beginning a review of its Trade Regulation Rule on Funeral Industry Practices ("Funeral Rule"). The proposed action is part of the FTC's ongoing...

The FTC has set September 13-14, 1999, as the dates for its public workshop examining the competition and consumer protection issues involved with deregulating and restructuring the U.S. electric...

Under the terms of a proposed consent announced for public comment today by the Federal Trade Commission, Rohm & Haas Company will be required to divest certain assets it would acquire in its purchase...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it had charged an "information broker" with illegally obtaining and selling consumers' private financial information. The case against Touch Tone...

Two Florida companies and three individuals who marketed and sold laundry detergent substitutes have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated advertising...

A recent, informal surf of 150 Internet sites using environmental advertising claims found that most of them were in compliance with the Federal Trade Commission's "Guides for the Use of Environmental...