Federal Trade Commission, U.S.

When the FTC was created in 1914, its purpose was to prevent unfair methods of competition in commerce as part of the battle to “bust the trusts.” Over the years, Congress passed additional laws giving the agency greater authority to police anticompetitive practices. In 1938, Congress passed a broad prohibition against “unfair and deceptive acts or practices.” Since then, the Commission also has been directed to administer a wide variety of other consumer protection laws, including the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the Pay-Per-Call Rule and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. In 1975, Congress gave the FTC the authority to adopt industry-wide trade regulation rules.

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    • BC Civil Penalty Actions in U.S
      दिसम्बर 2020
      Source: Federal Trade Commission, U.S.
      Uploaded by: manish pandey
      Accessed On: 02 अक्तूबर, 2021
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      This data set includes information on all civil penalty actions under the Competition Mission brought by the Federal Trade Commission from fiscal year 1996 to fiscal year 2019. The data set contains descriptive information on the characteristics of each matter as well as URLs to the individual case pages that are published on the FTC's web site and that contain public documents pertaining to each case.
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