Federal Trade Commission Reports Nationwide Fraud Losses Topped $10B in 2023 February 12, 2024 Consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud in 2023, marking the first time that fraud losses have reached...
FTC Privacy Settlement With Facebook Could Set Record February 20, 2019 By David McLaughlin, Ben Brody Facebook Inc. is in talks with U.S. regulators over alleged privacy violations that could force the social-media giant to pay...
FTC Conducting Probe of Auto Lenders’ Kill Switches February 21, 2017 By Matt Scully A U.S. regulator is looking at whether auto finance companies that use sophisticated technology like ignition kill switches are illegally...
Federal Appeals Court Rules That FTC has Power to Police Cybersecurity August 26, 2015 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. appeals court said the Federal Trade Commission has authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity, and may pursue a lawsuit...
FTC Member Says Lawsuits Focus on Cyber System Failures September 24, 2014 One of the five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission says her organization has investigated hundreds of cyber security breaches...
More Transparency for Data Brokers Needed May 29, 2014 By JENNIFER C. KERR Companies are collecting billions of pieces of information about consumers to create individual profiles to more effectively target individuals for...
Online Background Checks May Violate Fair Credit Law: FTC May 9, 2013 By Anne Flaherty Federal regulators this week warned several companies that the quick, easy background checks they are providing online might violate the...
Five Percent of Consumers Had Credit Report Errors: FTC February 12, 2013 One in twenty American consumers had mistakes on their credit reports that would have increased their interest rates on loans...
FTC Finds POM Wonderful Health Claims Deceptive January 17, 2013 POM Wonderful made deceptive advertising claims in saying that its pomegranate juice and other products would make users healthier, the...
FTC Targets Car Dealers for Misleading Ads March 16, 2012 By JENNIFER C. KERR Beware of car dealer ads that promise to pay off the loan on your trade-in. In a first-of-its-kind case, the...