The Federal Trade Commission is planning to survey identity theft victims to learn how their experience went.

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Adware distributor Zango, which has tangled with the FTC, laid off 68 employees — about a third of its workforce — earlier this week, according to a senior executive.

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The Federal Trade Commission wants the power to punish and fine spyware purveyors.

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The Federal Trade Commission has opened an antitrust investigation into chip maker Intel.

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By the time you finish reading these tips, another 100 American identities will be stolen. ID theft tops the list of consumer complaints at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It has become so prevale…
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The Federal Trade Commission has put a permanent halt to an operation that allegedly obtained consumers’ confidential phone records without their knowledge or consent, and then sold them to third parties, according to a statement by the FTC.

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A Florida firm connected to the 2006 Hewlett-Packard spying scandal has been ordered to stop the sale of personal telephone records, and the defendants in the case must pay more than $605,000 in fines.

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Concerns about identity theft are escalating. According to the Federal Trade Commission, as many as nine million Americans fall victim to this crime annually, resulting in businesses and individuals l…
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The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order that settles charges an online clothing retailer failed to properly secure its customers’ personal information.
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The FTC asked for mechanism that would keep advertisers from being able to collect information from users.

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Two consumer groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday to create a “do not track list” that would allow computer users to bar advertisers from collecting information about them.
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In addition to settling its case against discount retailer TJX, the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced a settlement with data brokers Reed Elsevier and Seisint on charges that they failed to provide reasonable and appropriate security for sensitive consumer information, leading to identity theft.
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