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As a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, the operators of a telemarketing scam that called hundreds of thousands of consumers nationwide to pitch them expensive “extended automobile...
The Federal Trade Commission today proposed a “click to cancel” provision requiring sellers to make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up. That is just one of...
The Federal Trade Commission has made updates to its Rules of Practice, establishing a formal process by which the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority can submit its budget to the FTC for...
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale University will host the 16th Annual FTC Microeconomics Conference on November 2 and 3, 2023 in...