Federal Trade Commission

As millions of Americans begin receiving stimulus checks under the CARES Act, the Federal Trade Commission is now warning residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities to keep a close eye on their money. “A lot of nursing homes and assisted living facilities that are accepting Medicaid patients were taking the stimulus checks of their patients, thinking this was…

The Federal Trade Commission is warning residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities to keep a close eye on their money after complaints that stimulus checks have reportedly been taken.

If you were among the 147 million Americans who had their Social Security number and other private information exposed by the 2017 Equifax data breach, the deadline to file a claim for free credit monitoring or compensation is Wednesday.

State and federal authorities are suing imprisoned drug entrepreneur Martin Shkreli over tactics that shielded a profitable drug from competition after a price hike made the so-called “Pharma Bro” infamous

California’s attorney general says he has been investigating Facebook’s privacy practices since 2018.

AT&T will pay $60 million to settle the government’s allegation that it misled customers of unlimited-data plans by slowing down service for heavy users. The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that AT&T will automatically provide partial refunds to customers who signed up for unlimited wireless plans before 2011.

Janet Macari is enjoying her new flip phone, but it took months to get it. “My flip phone that I had for years broke into two pieces, so it was Memorial Day weekend, and I thought it was a good weekend to go shopping for a new flip phone,” explained Janet.

A woman who wanted a simple flip phone said she was given the run-around when she tried to exchange one she’d purchased.

“I thought I had just made an extra $350 to do something easy, and then I find out that all my savings, everything I had is wiped out, and now I owe the bank $2,000.”

What sounded like an easy way to make money turned out not to be the case for a recent University of Massachusetts Lowell graduate when she fell victim to a secret shopper scam.

E-cigarette vapor causes lung cancer and potentially bladder cancer in mice, damaging their DNA and leading researchers at New York University to conclude that vaping is likely “very harmful” to humans as well. “It’s foreseeable that if you smoke e-cigarettes, all kinds of disease comes out” over time, Moon-Shong Tang, the study’s lead researcher, said in an interview. “Long term,...

The Federal Trade Commission is suing the company that owns the dating site Match.com for allegedly tricking people into paying for a subscription.

Federal consumer watchdogs have ordered Juul and five other vaping companies to hand over information about how they market e-cigarettes, the government’s latest move targeting the industry. The announcement Thursday from the Federal Trade Commission comes amid a nationwide crackdown on e-cigarettes as politicians and health authorities try to reverse an explosion of underage vaping by U.S. teenagers. The FTC...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed the company’s challenges in two hours of leaked audio from internal meetings published in part by The Verge on Tuesday. The audio from two July Q&A meetings with employees provides a glance into Zuckerberg’s thoughts on key issues facing his company while not under the spotlight of press cameras or a congressional hearing. He also...

A 76-year-old woman was tricked into giving $125,000 to a man who pretended to be in a romantic relationship with her, New Jersey police said.

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Match Group for allegedly using notifications about phony profiles to trick consumers into paying for a subscription to dating site Match.com The site lets people create profiles for free but they need to pay for a subscription to respond to messages. Match sent emails to non-subscribers telling them they had received a response on...

Facebook is tackling a new frontier: love. Facebook Dating, a matchmaking service the company already offers in Brazil, Canada and 17 other countries , will arrive in the U.S. on Thursday. But after years of privacy missteps by the social network, will people trust it with their love lives? The mobile-only feature is part of Facebook’s ongoing attempt to reach...

New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday she is launching an investigation into Facebook for possible antitrust violations. Attorneys general of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia will join the probe, according to the announcement.

Google-owned YouTube will pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General that it earned millions for illegally collecting personal information from children without their parents’ consent. Shares of Google parent company Alphabet were up about 0.8% following the announcement.