The Federal Trade Commission will co-host a workshop on May 14-15, 2026, with George Mason University Law School’s Institute for Consumer Financial Choice (ICFC) focusing on developments in the financial services marketplace in the five years since the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law
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The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Kochava and its subsidiary from selling, sharing or disclosing sensitive location data without consumers’ affirmative express consent to settle allegations the companies sold location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could be used to trace the movements of individuals
The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against high-level participants in a multilevel marketing (MLM) company over allegations they used false or baseless earning claims to recruit workers, most of whom did not earn any money
New data from the Federal Trade Commission show that, in 2025, nearly 30% of people who reported losing money to a scam said that it started on social media, with reported losses reaching a staggering $2
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a U
Following an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has ordered one of the key operators of a timeshare exit operation to pay $140 million and has permanently banned him from marketing similar services in the future over allegations the scheme defrauded consumers—mostly older adults—out of more than $90 million
The Federal Trade Commission has obtained a temporary restraining order against an alleged student loan debt relief scheme and its operators over allegations they pretended to be affiliated with the U
The Federal Trade Commission testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation today to highlight the agency’s accomplishments in the last year and a half and its ongoing work to protect consumers and promote competition on behalf of the American people
Operators of multilevel marketing (MLM) company Forever Living will be permanently prohibited from making deceptive earnings claims to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company deceived consumers into believing that they could earn profits from the venture when the vast majority of participants made little or no money
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced law enforcement actions involving three companies that deceived American consumers by falsely claiming, in advertising and labeling, that their products were made in the United States
