The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is working to regulate junk fees, or additional charges tacked onto the price of a good or service. Think concert ticket prices after the fees -- they usually ...

Last year, the FTC voted to ratify amendments to a regulation known as the Negative Option Rule, adding a new "click-to-cancel" rule that requires companies to be upfront about the terms of ...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has decided to back the Department of Justice (DOJ) in its attempt to break Google’s search monopoly. The FTC agrees with the proposed moves. Google ...

In October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized significant updates to the Negative Option Rule, which are slated to take effect on May 14, 2025. A negative option is a contract term ...

Increasing competition will put more pressure on Google to improve its privacy practices, the FTC said. Google has sought to block the DOJ's data-sharing proposal, which its CEO Sundar Pichai said ...

It came as the FTC on Wednesday lost a roughly three-year-long attempt to undo Microsoft's (MSFT) $69 billion acquisition of gaming giant Activision Blizzard on the grounds that the deal violated ...

A US court has denied the United States government's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appeal against the decision to allow Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard. As reported by Bloomberg ...

A three-judge panel unanimously rejected the FTC’s appeal and ruled the federal judge had applied the correct legal standards. The panel also found the FTC had not shown it was likely to succeed on ...

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that the agency has mailed checks totaling over $18 million to nearly 282,000 PCH consumers who the FTC says were misled by the Jericho, New York ...

The shopping and sweepstakes company was said by the FTC to have sent consumers misleading emails, leading many of them to purchase products from the company. The FTC said older and lower-income ...

The FTC sued a self described "free online sweepstakes and contests" website for using “dark patterns to mislead” consumers. Publishers Clearing House agreed to pay $18.5 million to wronged ...