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The �鶹��ý Trade Commission will host a two-day Town Hall meeting to explore the evolving mobile commerce (M-commerce) marketplace and its implications for consumer protection policy. The Town Hall...

Commission approval of staff comments: The FTC’s Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Competition, and Bureau of Economics have submitted comments to Antonio Silva Delgado of the Treasury and...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission, International Association of Privacy Professionals, and Northwestern University School of Law will co-host a one-day public workshop on April 15, 2008 on how businesses...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission has asked a U.S. district court to hold three Internet pagejackers in contempt and order them to give up their ill-gotten gains for violating a previous order barring...

Criminals are hard at work thinking up creative ways to get malware on your computer, warns the �鶹��ý Trade Commission. With appealing Web sites, desirable downloads, and compelling stories, these...

Sellers of the “Centro Natural de Salud Obesity Treatment” have agreed to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated claims that their product causes rapid...

The operators of imbee.com, a social networking site specifically targeting kids and “tweens,” have agreed to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that their data-collection practices violated...

An online advertiser that drove traffic to its Web sites using spam e-mails with misleading subject lines has agreed to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that it failed to disclose that...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division today announced that they will host a joint workshop entitled, “2008 International Technical Assistance Workshop...

Dietary supplement marketers must run more frequent and prominent advertising disclosures after violating a court order entered against them two years ago. The original order settled �鶹��ý Trade...

Commission approval of amicus brief filing: The FTC’s Office of General Counsel has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the �鶹��ý Circuit in the matter of In re Ciprofloxacin...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission today announced a complaint and proposed consent decree settling charges that a California-based “voice broadcaster” made over 46 million unlawful telemarketing calls. The...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission has submitted a staff comment to the Department of the Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (“TTB”) concerning a proposed rulemaking on alcohol labeling...

A federal judge has barred the illegal operation of an information broker who advertised and sold confidential consumer telephone records to third parties without the consumers’ knowledge or consent...

A federal court has entered a final order against a Florida debt collection agency, its principals, and its attorney, settling a �鶹��ý Trade Commission action that alleged that the defendants...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission has issued its annual report to the �鶹��ý Reserve Board on FTC enforcement activities in 2007 related to the Truth in Lending Act, Consumer Leasing Act, Equal Credit...

In a decision announced today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of the �鶹��ý Trade Commission, denying a petition by Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I) to review an...

An operation marketing Visa- and MasterCard-branded prepaid debit cards to subprime consumers has agreed to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that it made unauthorized debits from consumers’...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission today announced a complaint and settlement with Negotiated Data Solutions LLC (N-Data), which allegedly violated federal law by engaging in unfair methods of competition...

Commission approval of �鶹��ý Register notices: The Commission, by a vote of 5-0, has authorized publication of a �鶹��ý Register notice announcing the revised thresholds for Section 8 interlocking...