The Federal Trade Commission banned businesses from writing and buying their own reviews in an August ruling. Now, it's ...

Americans shouldn’t accept a reality where their phones are sleeper agents for stalkers and fundamentalist politicians.

The FTC alleged that social media companies have engaged in "vast surveillance" and privacy violations. In a 2023 lawsuit, ...

An FTC rule banning phony online reviews is now in effect. Those who violate the measures face a civil penalty of up to ...

The FTC warned Lyft in October 2021 that its practices were illegal, and it must stop — but it continued them, and the result is this order and penalty. Of course, $2.1 million is a drop in the ...

In this context, a recent report from the FTC’s inspector general on news leaks are especially troubling and worthy of further investigation. As a law enforcement agency, the FTC is privy to ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is probing whether John Deere used unfair practices related to the repair of its agricultural equipment that might violate the FTC Act. The investigation into ...

Ellen Greenberg, a Philadelphia teacher, died on Jan. 6, 2011, during a nor'easter that shut down much of the city. She had 20 stab wounds, including 10 to the back of her head and neck, but ...

Last year, we wrote about the FTC’s proposal to massively expand the Negative Option Rule to cover any goods or services involving a negative option or automatic renewal plan, including free ...

Tired of jumping through hoops to cancel subscriptions? The FTC's new rule aims to make unsubscribing easy. It can be so easy to sign up for memberships and subscriptions. But canceling them?

Companies will be required to provide customers easy access to cancel memberships and subscriptions following the Federal Trade Commission’s approval of the final “click-to-cancel” rule ...

The existence of the FTC’s investigation into Deere was made public Thursday in a filing by a data processing company that is a third party in the case.