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FTC Asks Supreme Court to Let It Take Funds From Payday Lender

The Federal Trade Commission should be able, under current law, to order a payday lender to hand over its so-called ill-gotten gains after its leader was convicted of usury, fraud, ...

January 13, 2021BY Matthew Vadum

Sen. Blackburn Urges FTC to Interview Former Facebook Officials

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a tough critic of the big tech companies, urged the Federal Trade Commission on ...

November 13, 2020BY Reuters

Bipartisan Senate Report Calls for Strengthened, Mandatory Federal Oversight of Chinese Telecoms in US

Congress should move quickly to strengthen the federal government’s ability to oversee the activities of China’s major telecommunications ...

June 9, 2020BY Mark Tapscott

The New FTC Investigation May Curb Big Tech’s Intellectual Property Theft

Commentary The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Feb. 11 that it would look more closely at America’s ...

February 28, 2020BY Kristen Osenga

One of Amazon’s First Employees Calls for the Breakup of Jeff Bezos’ Company

One of Amazon’s first-ever employees, who was part of the founding team that set up the company in ...

December 24, 2019BY Katabella Roberts

For-Profit University Settles for $191 Million in ‘Deceptive’ Advertising Lawsuit

The University of Phoenix (UOP) and its parent company, Apollo Education Group, have reached a record $191 million ...

December 12, 2019BY GQ Pan

Cruz, Hawley Ask FTC to Examine Big Tech’s Censoring of Content, Make Results Public

WASHINGTON—Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) want the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate how major ...

July 15, 2019BY Mark Tapscott

FTC Approves About $5 Billion Fine for Facebook Over Privacy Violations: Report

The FTC has voted to approve a fine of about $5 billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the ...

July 12, 2019BY The Associated Press

Stopping Facebook’s Privacy Violations

Commentary Because of widely expected action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Facebook, for the first time, will ...

May 7, 2019BY Peter J. Ferrara

Popular Chinese Video-Sharing App TikTok Fined For Illegally Collecting Data on Children

Popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok has agreed to pay a $5.7 million fine to settle U.S. government charges ...

February 28, 2019BY Frank Fang

Trump’s Antitrust Enforcer Considers Shifting Up a Gear

WASHINGTON–The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which stops mergers it believes will push up prices, signaled Sept. ...

September 13, 2018BY Reuters

Regulator Cracks Down on ‘Free Trial’ Scammers

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is shutting down a group of online marketing firms that offer consumers deceptive ...

July 9, 2018BY Emel Akan

Online Lender Charged With Deceiving Consumers

WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued one of the largest online lenders, Lending Club Corp., for misleading ...

April 27, 2018BY Emel Akan

FTC Says AT&T Misled Customers With Unlimited Data

AT&T is being sued by the government over allegations it misled millions of smartphone customers about its unlimited ...

October 28, 2014BY Jennifer C. Kerr

Some Green Products Not Really So Green

On Oct. 29, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced enforcement actions against six companies marketing a product with ...

November 1, 2013BY Conan Milner

Nielsen Adding Radio, Mobile Ratings

Nielsen Holdings NV will soon expand its platform reach to radio with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) approval ...

September 23, 2013BY Catherine Yang

FTC Ends Google Anti-Trust Investigation

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decided to end what was anticipated to become the anti-trust investigation of ...