Press Releases | Federal Trade Commission (2024)

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Refine your results FTC Announces Tentative Agenda for September 15 Open Commission Meeting FTC Approves Changes to Five FCRA Rules FTC Staff Opinion with Respect to Doylestown Health Physicians FTC Fines Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank for Repeatedly Violating Antitrust Laws FTC Bans SpyFone and CEO from Surveillance Business and Orders Company to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data FTC Sends Refund Checks to People Targeted in Computer Financing Scheme Telemarketer Fees to Access the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry to Increase in 2022 FTC Alleges Facebook Resorted to Illegal Buy-or-Bury Scheme to Crush Competition After String of Failed Attempts to Innovate Public Access to Illumina/Grail Trial Provided via Teleconference Due to ongoing COVID-19 Concerns FTC, Georgia Attorney General Sue Stem Cell Institute of America Co-Founders for Deceptive Joint Pain Cure-All Marketing Scheme Federal Trade Commission Sending Refunds to More than 31,000 Consumers Allegedly Defrauded by Online Training Academy FTC Urges Federal Reserve Board to Require Debit Card Gatekeepers to Compete Fairly FTC Sues FleetCor and Its CEO for Fleecing Small Businesses With Mystery Fuel Card Fees Statement of FTC Office of Public Affairs Director Lindsay Kryzak on District Court’s Decision to Grant Preliminary Injunction Halting New Jersey Hospital Merger Aristotle Removed from List of FTC-Approved Children’s Privacy Self-Regulatory Programs FTC Adjusts its Merger Review Process to Deal with Increase in Merger Filings Refunds Coming to Consumers Who Bought Deceptively Marketed Willow Curve Device FTC Sends Checks to People Who Were Deceived into Buying Worthless Online Marketing Services Federal Trade Commission Withdraws Remaining Case against AbbVie after Supreme Court Decision Strips Consumers of Relief FTC Sends Nearly $2.3 Million in Refunds to People who Lost Money to Credit Card Debt Relief Schemes References

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FTC Announces Tentative Agenda for September 15 Open Commission Meeting

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Today, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina M. Khan announced that an open meeting of the Commission will be held virtually on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. The open meeting will begin at 11 am ET and...

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FTC Approves Changes to Five FCRA Rules

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The Federal Trade Commission approved final revisions that would bring several rules that implement parts of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in line with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...

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FTC Staff Opinion with Respect to Doylestown Health Physicians

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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has issued an opinion advising Doylestown Health Physicians that an exemption under the Non-Profit Institutions Act applies to its proposal to sell discounted...

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FTC Fines Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank for Repeatedly Violating Antitrust Laws

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Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Richard Fairbank, CEO of Capital One Financial Corp., will pay a $637,950 civil penalty to settle charges that his acquisition of Capital One...

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FTC Bans SpyFone and CEO from Surveillance Business and Orders Company to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data

Today, the Federal Trade Commission banned SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance business over allegations that the stalkerware app company secretly harvested and shared data on...

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FTC Sends Refund Checks to People Targeted in Computer Financing Scheme

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending 4,505 checks to people who lost money in a financing scheme that targeted customers shopping for computers and related electronic devices. In 2008, the FTC...

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Telemarketer Fees to Access the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry to Increase in 2022

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The fees for telemarketers accessing phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry will increase incrementally in FY 2022 . All telemarketers calling consumers in the United States are...

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FTC Alleges Facebook Resorted to Illegal Buy-or-Bury Scheme to Crush Competition After String of Failed Attempts to Innovate

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Today, the Federal Trade Commission filed an amended complaint against Facebook in the agency’s ongoing federal antitrust case . The complaint alleges that after repeated failed attempts to develop...

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Public Access to Illumina/Grail Trial Provided via Teleconference Due to ongoing COVID-19 Concerns

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The administrative trial in the matter of Illumina, Inc., and GRAIL, Inc. (D- 9401 ) is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021 at 10 a.m. ET, following a prehearing conference on Monday, Aug. 23...

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FTC, Georgia Attorney General Sue Stem Cell Institute of America Co-Founders for Deceptive Joint Pain Cure-All Marketing Scheme

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The Federal Trade Commission and the Georgia Attorney General’s Office today sued the co-founders of the Stem Cell Institute of America for marketing stem cell therapy to seniors nationwide using...

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Federal Trade Commission Sending Refunds to More than 31,000 Consumers Allegedly Defrauded by Online Training Academy

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending checks totaling more than $5.4 million to 31,144 consumers who purchased an allegedly deceptively marketed investment training scheme offered by California...

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FTC Urges Federal Reserve Board to Require Debit Card Gatekeepers to Compete Fairly

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The Federal Trade Commission announced that staff have submitted a comment urging the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) to clarify and strengthen the implementation of debit...

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FTC Sues FleetCor and Its CEO for Fleecing Small Businesses With Mystery Fuel Card Fees

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The Federal Trade Commission has filed an administrative complaint against FleetCor and its CEO, Ronald Clarke, for charging customers hundreds of millions of dollars in mystery fees associated with...

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Statement of FTC Office of Public Affairs Director Lindsay Kryzak on District Court’s Decision to Grant Preliminary Injunction Halting New Jersey Hospital Merger

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Following the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey’s decision to grant a preliminary injunction against Hackensack Meridian Health, Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Englewood Healthcare...

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Aristotle Removed from List of FTC-Approved Children’s Privacy Self-Regulatory Programs

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Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Aristotle International, Inc. (Aristotle) has been removed from the list of self-regulatory organizations that police for compliance with the...

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FTC Adjusts its Merger Review Process to Deal with Increase in Merger Filings

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The Federal Trade Commission is adjusting its process for reviewing mergers to deal with a surge in merger filings. In a new blog post, FTC Bureau of Competition Director Holly Vedova notes , “for...

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Refunds Coming to Consumers Who Bought Deceptively Marketed Willow Curve Device

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending refund checks totaling more than $350,000 to consumers who bought Willow Curve, a device that applies low-level light and, according to the agency, was...

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FTC Sends Checks to People Who Were Deceived into Buying Worthless Online Marketing Services

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The FTC is sending checks totaling more than $1.5 million to more than 3,000 consumers who were deceived into buying worthless Internet-based marketing products and services by two companies called...

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Federal Trade Commission Withdraws Remaining Case against AbbVie after Supreme Court Decision Strips Consumers of Relief

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After the Supreme Court declined to review a ruling from the Third Circuit that AbbVie used sham litigation to illegally maintain a monopoly, the Federal Trade Commission has withdrawn the remaining...

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FTC Sends Nearly $2.3 Million in Refunds to People who Lost Money to Credit Card Debt Relief Schemes

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending refund checks totaling nearly $2.3 million to people who lost money to credit card debt relief schemes. In a complaint announced in July 2019 , the FTC and the...

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