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Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission staff is seeking public comments on the issues raised at a recent FTC workshop exploring facial recognition technology and the privacy and security implications raised by its...

Following a public comment period, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has finalized a settlement order with online advertiser ScanScout, which the FTC alleged deceptively claimed that consumers could opt...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission reached a settlement putting a stop to the phony claims of marketers who told consumers their fuel economy device could boost automobile gas mileage by at least 50 percent...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is pleased to announce that Jessica Rich, currently a Deputy Director of the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection, will take over as head of the Bureau's Division of...

The heads of the antitrust agencies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico – Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis A. Pozen of the Department of...

At the request of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, a federal court has ordered one of the individuals behind a payday lending scheme and two companies he controlled to pay $294,536 for illegally trying...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is taking action against a telemarketing operation that allegedly made illegal robocalls, called phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and masked Caller ID...

An Illinois-based telemarketing firm will pay $500,000 to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it interfered with consumers' requests to be placed on company-specific do not call lists and...

Brian L. Roberts, the Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation, has agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that he violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that oversees Internet domain names, expressing concern that the...

Six defendants have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they participated in a fraudulent mortgage modification and foreclosure relief scheme. The settlement orders require five...

Seeking to maintain competition in markets for key industrial finishing equipment, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission challenged Graco Inc.'s proposed $650 million acquisition of ITW Finishing LLC from...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, finding supplement marketer Lane Labs-USA Inc., and its president Andrew Lane in contempt of a court order that bars them from...

FTC Approves Trustee's Request for a 90-Day Extension of Deadline to Sell Tops Supermarket in Bath, New York The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has approved an application by the Divestiture Trustee in the...

Protecting competition in the market for three topical dermatology drugs, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has approved orders requiring Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. to divest three drugs...

The Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, Richard Feinstein, issued the following statement regarding today's ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit...

Starting this week, more than 300,000 consumers who were victims of a "scareware" scam will receive refunds resulting from Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission settlements with Innovative Marketing and other...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission will require laboratory testing companies Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) and Orchid Cellmark Inc. (Orchid) to divest a portion of Orchid's paternity...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is mailing approximately 75,000 refund checks to consumers who were deceived by an online marketing operation that sold work-at-home opportunities. The FTC brought the...

In testimony today before a U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission detailed its work to promote competition and benefit consumers, including preventing...