A complaint filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) brought the RemoteSpy software to the FTC ’ s attention.

* FTC consumer complaint form

A complaint was made to the Federal Trade Commission of the United States in hope that the FTC would prevent its publication.

If the results of the investigation reveal unlawful conduct, the FTC may seek voluntary compliance by the offending business through a consent order, file an administrative complaint, or initiate federal litigation.

Traditionally an administrative complaint is heard in front of an independent administrative law judge ( ALJ ) with FTC staff acting as prosecutors.

Gateway settled the complaint by entering into a consent decree with the FTC that required it to surrender some profits and placed restrictions upon Gateway for the following 20 years.

* February 2012: EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC about Google's new consolidated Privacy Policy saying it allowed advertising companies easier access to the data the user viewed in Google services.

In the US, the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) has expanded Phone Spam regulations to cover also Voice Spam — mostly in form of prerecorded telemarketing calls — commonly known as robocalls ; victims can file a complaint with the FCC.

Contrary to claims in the association ’ s advertising, indoor tanning increases the risk of squamous cell and melanoma skin cancers, according to the FTC complaint.

Whenever the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) has reason to believe that any person has violated 15 USC section 13, 14, 18 or 19, it must issue and serve on that person and on the Attorney General of the United States, a complaint stating its charges in that regard.

According to the FTC ’ s complaint, these claims are false or unsubstantiated.

A complaint filed in April 1997 by the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) alleged " unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the making of false advertisements ".

On January 4, 2007 the U. S. Federal Trade Commission announced that the marketers of TrimSpa had agreed to pay a settlement of $ 1. 5 million in response to an FTC complaint of making unsupported claims in advertisements, and were also prohibited " from making any claims about the health benefits, performance, efficacy, safety, or side effects of TrimSpa, Hoodia gordonii, or any dietary supplement, food, drug, or health-related service or program, unless the claims are true, not misleading, and substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence.

In 2012, Skechers agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $ 40 million based on an FTC complaint that it had misled customers with its Shape-Ups ads.

The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) also issued a letter in 2002 about the importance of disclosure of paid advertising on search engines, in response to a complaint from Commercial Alert, a consumer advocacy group with ties to Ralph Nader.

The FTC alleges that the defendants promoted cortisol control as “ the answer ” for

The FTC alleges that the defendants claimed that CortiSlim: ( 1 ) causes weight loss of 10 to 50 pounds for virtually all users ; ( 2 ) causes users to lose as much as 4 to 10 pounds per week over multiple weeks ; ( 3 ) causes users to lose weight specifically from the abdomen, stomach, and thighs ; ( 4 ) causes rapid and substantial weight loss ; ( 5 ) causes long-term or permanent weight loss ; and ( 6 ) causes weight loss.

The FTC also alleges that the defendants claimed that the effectiveness of CortiSlim and its ingredients is demonstrated by over 15 years of scientific research.

In March 2006, the FTC obtained its largest settlement to date-a $ 900, 000 consent decree against Jumpstart Technologies, LLC for numerous alleged violations of the CAN-SPAM act.

The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) gave its antitrust approval of the deal in late September ; as a result, that October 1, Sinclair took over the management of the stations from the Nexstar Broadcasting Group through time brokerage agreements Cerberus would then pay Nexstar a portion of Sinclair's purchase price —$ 6. 7 million — to terminate the outsourcing agreement, which was set to expire in March 2012, five months early.

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The FTC ruled in March 1973 that Litton had to divest itself of Triumph Adler.

The latest report from the FTC showed that ID theft increased by 21 % in 2008.

In 2007 and 2008, the FTC worked on ratifying the guides to address changes in social media.

The 2009 report indicated that the FTC received 78, 838 consumer complaints about third party debt collectors in 2008, which is an increase from the 70, 951 received in 2007.

In the 2008 / 09 season, however, FTC finally secured its return to the NB I.

On December 2, 2008, the U. S. Federal Trade Commission (“ FTC ”) filed a Complaint in federal court against Innovative Marketing, Inc., ByteHosting Internet Services, LLC, as well as individuals Sam Jain, Daniel Sundin, James Reno, Marc D ’ Souza and Kristy Ross.

The WildStang FTC team, " MiniStang ", has won the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Illinois State Championship with an undefeated record.

On October 11, 2007, it was announced that VG Holding Corp., the owners of BioWare and Pandemic Studios, would be acquired by Electronic Arts as of January 2008, subject to FTC approval.

In the mid-1990s, the FTC launched the fraud sweeps concept where the agency and its federal, state, and local partners filed simultaneous legal actions against multiple telemarketing fraud targets.

In 1990, alternative health vendor Nature's Way signed an FTC consent agreement not to misrepresent in advertising any self-diagnostic test concerning yeast conditions or to make any unsubstantiated representation concerning any food or supplement's ability to control yeast conditions, with a fine of $ 30, 000 payable to the National Institutes of Health for research in genuine candidiasis.

" personal-computer upgrade that seemed as if it would never materialize eventually caught the attention of the Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ), who started investigating Mattel Electronics for fraud and false advertising.

In one case, that against Seismic Entertainment Productions, the FTC accused the defendants of developing a program that seized control of PCs nationwide, infected them with spyware and other malicious software, bombarded them with a barrage of pop-up advertising for Seismic ’ s clients, exposed the PCs to security risks, and caused them to malfunction.

The FTC has been involved in the oversight of the online advertising industry and its practice of behavioral targeting for some time.

* FTC regulation of behavioral advertising

In 2002, the FTC charged the company's owners and Harris ' promoters, Steven Feder and Peter Stotz, with deceptive advertising, billing and collection practices ; Harris was not indicted.

Notwithstanding their efforts to present a seamless transition, the company came under much scrutiny by the FTC throughout the 60's, and ultimately was forced to change their advertising and branding policies to clearly indicate that they weren't directly related to the original Waltham company, and that their products were not made in America.

In 1994 the company was featured on the program " Dateline NBC " with an official from the FTC attacking the company for " deceptive advertising.

In keeping with FTC rulings, Enzyte is not allowed to claim these benefits in its advertising.

All commercial acts may be deceptive, not just advertising, but noncommercial activity such as advertising for political candidates is not subject to prosecution under the FTC Act.

The FTC found that the memory system would not enable users to achieve a photographic memory, and the advertising claims were false.

The FTC later claimed that in 2005, cigarette companies spent $ 13. 11 billion on advertising and promotion, down from $ 15. 12 billion in 2003, but nearly double what was spent in 1998.

The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) in America is re-examining and will probably update its " Green Guides " used to regulate green advertising claims.