March 31, 2011
Two recent consent orders in Section 5 enforcement cases with Google Inc. and Chitika, Inc. and comments from top FTC officials indicate that the agency wants businesses to implement the recommendations in its preliminary privacy framework, though the Commission has not issued a final privacy report.
March 31, 2011
AT&T has announced an agreement to purchase T-Mobile USA, a deal valued at close to $39 billion.
March 31, 2011
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill explained how her background influences her approach to consumer protection and antitrust enforcement and offered advice to parties who appear before the agency.
March 31, 2011
Over 140,000 consumers contacted the FTC to complain about debt collectors in 2010, comprising 27 percent of all complaints to the agency last year.
March 31, 2011
Thirty-eight state attorneys general have settled with the maker of an anti-psychotic drug, resolving charges of misleading marketing for the medication.
March 31, 2011
Mississippi lawmakers should reconsider language in a proposed Bill that could raise drug prices for consumers, the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning and Bureaus of Competition and Economics have...
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