Federal Trade Commission
Recent News About Federal Trade Commission
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Soderstrom: 'The Commission’s order provides innovative and comprehensive relief to protect competition'
The Federal Trade Commission responded to antitrust concerns surrounding a $5.2 billion cash-and-stock deal between Quantum Energy Partners, a private equity firm, and EQT Corporation, a natural gas producer.
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Experian Consumer Services to settle charges by Federal Trade Commission
Experian Consumer Services, a division of Experian offering consumers access to their credit information, will settle charges by paying $650,000, as mandated by the Federal Trade Commission, for allegedly sending unsolicited emails without providing recipients the option to opt out, as required by the CAN-SPAM Act.
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Vedova: 'The proposed order is a victory in creating a fair and competitive playing field in the e-prescription drug market'
The Federal Trade Commission reached a proposed settlement with Surescripts in an illegal monopolization case that aims to address anticompetitive actions resulting in increased prices, hindered innovation and limited customer choices in the e-prescription market.
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Kubasik: 'We are moving forward to close the transaction on or about July 28'
The Federal Trade Commission confirmed regulators will not block L3Harris’s Aerojet Rocketdyne acquisition.
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FTC: 'Online sites and services directed to children under 13 must obtain parental consent'
The Federal Trade Commission has requested commentary from an Entertainment Software Rating Board application in relation to a new procedure used to obtain parental consent under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule.
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Venkatasubramanian: 'It’s the fear of these systems and our lack of understanding of them that is making everyone have a collective freak-out'
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission submitted an extensive Civil Investigative Demand to the maker of ChatGPT.
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Garland: 'These updated merger guidelines respond to modern market realities'
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are now accepting public commentary after the most recent guideline draft update.
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Vedova: 'Protecting competition in the emerging health care programmatic advertising market plays a critical role in lowering health care costs'
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against IQVIA Holdings Inc. in an effort to block its Propel Media Inc. acquisition.
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Vedova: 'It’s critical that the market for health care product advertising remains competitive'
The Federal Trade Commission recently initiated legal action in order to block IQVIA's acquisition of Propel Media, with the goal of preventing a significant increase in market concentration within the healthcare programmatic advertising industry.
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Levine: We will pursue 'those who prey on individuals struggling with alcohol or other substance use disorders'
The FTC has taken legal action against the manufacturers of Sobrenix supplement, who made deceptive claims about the supplement's ability to reduce alcohol cravings and utilized fraudulent endorsements.
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FTC's Levine: Patients 'should not have to worry that their most private and sensitive health information' is disclosed online
Nationwide, the FTC and HHS have issued warnings to hospital systems and telehealth providers concerning the privacy and security risks posed by online tracking technologies.
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Garland: 'These updated merger guidelines respond to modern market realities'
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission recently updated the merger guidelines.
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Levine: 'The FTC and its law enforcement partners will not rest in the fight against illegal telemarketing'
The Federal Trade Commission has partnered with federal and state law enforcement agencies and all 50 states' attorneys general, in 180 enforcement actions targeting illegal telemarketing calls.
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Samuel Levine, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection: 'Marketing edible THC products that can be easily mistaken by children for regular foods is reckless and illegal'
In early July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has issued cease and desist letters to companies that sell edible products containing Delta-8 THC. Many of these products are packaged in a manner that closely resembles food commonly consumed by children.
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Vedova: Pharmaceutical industry consolidations give ‘powerful companies a pass to exorbitantly hike prescription drug prices’
The Federal Trade Commission is suing to block a large pharmaceutical corporation from acquiring a specialty biotech firm to avoid giving the corporation undue control over essential medicines.
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Khan: 'Vigorous antitrust enforcement is critical' to equitable economic growth
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is reporting that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is readying a potential antitrust lawsuit against tech giant Amazon Inc. on the grounds that many of its business practices are "anticompetitive."
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McGinnis: 'There must be careful review of the FTC and SEC leave usage'
A report released by the Functional Government Initiative showed a significant drop in federal employees using annual and sick leave in several finance and trade agencies since 2018, raising questions about teleworking abuse.
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NetChoice urges FTC not to supersede scope of authority on 'commercial surveillance and data security'
In August of this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that they were exploring rules to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security. In what the FTC called its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), the agency sought public comments on the harms of businesses collecting, analyzing and monetizing information about people. NetChoice, a trade association of leading internet businesses, raised concerns not about cracking down on commercial surveillance and data security, but that the FTC is not the proper government body to implement these rules and/or regulations.
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Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission seek to strengthen enforcement against illegal mergers
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a joint public inquiry to deal with illegal mergers.