FTC Permanently Halts Pretexting Scheme; Defendants Barred From Obtaining or Selling Consumers Phone Records to Third Parties

The Federal Trade Commission has put a permanent halt to an operation that allegedly obtained consumers’ confidential phone records without…

16 years ago

FTC Issues Statement Regarding Solicitor Generals Amicus Brief Filing in Pacific Bell Telephone Company v. linkLine Communications

Today the Federal Trade Commission announced that it has decided not to join an amicus brief filed by the Department…

16 years ago

FTC Charges Home Buying Consulting Business with Credit Repair Violations

A home-buying consulting business that offers credit repair and home-buying consulting services has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade…

16 years ago

Keep Summer Fuel Costs From Burning Your Budget

FTC Provides Tips for Saving Money at the Gas Pump and Cooling Your Home For Your Information May 22, 2008…

16 years ago

FTCs Bureau of Competition Issues FY 2007 Summary of Pharmaceutical Company Settlement Agreements

The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition today issued a summary of agreements filed with the agency in fiscal year…

16 years ago

FTC Testifies Before U.S. House Subcommittee on Progress of Credit-Based Insurance Score Study

The Federal Trade Commission today provided Congress with an update on the progress of its study on the use of…

16 years ago

FTC Announces Operation Tele-PHONEY, Agency’s Largest Telemarketing Sweep

“The caller asked for my bank account information. I cannot remember everything he said. I just thought that I needed…

16 years ago

FTC Seeks Public Comments on a Model Order to Obtain Data for Study of the Effect of Credit-Based Insurance Scores on Consumers of Homeowners Insurance

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a resolution authorizing the use of compulsory process pursuant to Section 6(b) of the…

16 years ago

U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms FTC Decision That Texas Doctors Group Engaged in Illegal, Anticompetitive Price-Fixing

In a unanimous opinion issued on May 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a 2005…

16 years ago

FTC, Partners to Announce Operation Tele-PHONEY Law Enforcement Sweep

The Federal Trade Commission, together with more than 30 law enforcement partners from the United States and Canada, will announce…

16 years ago