Federal Trade Commission

FTC Proposes New Limits in Children's Online Protection Privacy Act to Restrict Tracking, Push Notifications

FTC Proposes New Limits in Children's Online Protection Privacy Act to Restrict Tracking, Push Notifications

Get informed about how the FTC is stepping up to protect your children's online privacy. Read about ...

Dec 20, 2023 11:16 PM EST

US Federal Court Overrules Meta in FTC Privacy Battle

US Federal Court Overrules Meta in FTC Privacy Battle

Discover the latest twist in Meta's privacy battle: US Federal Court sides with the FTC. Learn how t...

Nov 27, 2023 09:51 PM EST

Buying Consumers’ Web Browsing History From ISPs, Advertisers Are Now Free From Privacy Rules

The recently introduced Congressional Review Act resolutions would overturn the Federal Communicatio...

Mar 28, 2017 11:24 AM EDT

Stratford Career Institute Settles Charges Over Diploma Scandal

Students were deceived into paying $989 for a diploma program, offered by Stratford Career Institute...

Feb 06, 2017 08:09 AM EST

Qualcomm Faces FTC Lawsuit For Forcing Apple Into Exclusive Chip Deal

Qualcomm is under fire in yet another lawsuit for monopolizing the market and extracting high revenu...

Jan 18, 2017 01:58 PM EST

Volkswagen plans to increase monetary fund intended for Dieselgate scandal

German automaker Volkswagen is now planning on increasing the budget it had intended for the the Die...

Apr 21, 2016 01:24 AM EDT

DOJ and FTC Urge Competition for Defense Contractors

In order to preserve a healthy competition between contractors, the U.S. regulators, namely The Just...

Apr 13, 2016 05:13 AM EDT

Federal Trade Commission settled cases against General Motors, 2 other car dealers

General Motors along with two other car dealers are being sanctioned by the FTC regarding their acti...

Jan 31, 2016 09:04 PM EST

Albertsons to pay Haggen $5.75M to settle billion-dollar lawsuit

Albertsons agreed to pay $5.75 million to settle a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by grocery retailer ...

Jan 25, 2016 08:22 AM EST

Fedex, TNT win U.S. approval to merge

Tennessee-based Fedex Corp (FDX.N) and Dutch counterpart TNT Express (TNTE.AS) have won U.S. antitru...

Nov 24, 2015 11:31 PM EST

FTC offers first-ever guidance on 'unfair competition'

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday released unprecedented guidance on a section of busine...

Aug 14, 2015 02:35 AM EDT

Sysco not in talks to settle U.S. lawsuit to stop merger: lawyer

Sysco Corp (SYY.N) is not holding settlement talks with the U.S. government to resolve a lawsuit aim...

Feb 21, 2015 07:18 AM EST

Online payday lenders in $21 million accord with U.S. regulators

Two online payday lending companies linked to a professional racecar driver have agreed to pay a rec...

Jan 17, 2015 05:25 AM EST

20 states join U.S. antitrust probe of Family Dollar merger

Some 20 state attorneys general have joined the federal antitrust investigation of competing bids by...

Jan 11, 2015 09:34 AM EST

Antitrust regulators face clashing missions in U.S. cigarette deal

Cigarette maker Reynolds American's (RAI.N) proposal to buy smaller rival Lorillard Inc (LO.N) prese...

Oct 30, 2014 03:03 AM EDT

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