Sentences with phrase «states federal trade»

The United States Federal Trade Commission is also pursuing litigation.

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Facebook over its use of people's personal data, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

The United States Federal Trade Commission on Monday confirmed it's investigating Facebook's data privacy scandal involving American data research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

The United States Federal Trade Commission in January accused Qualcomm of violating the FTC Act by using anticompetitive tactics and abusing its patent portfolio to remain the dominant supplier of LTE chips for smartphones, and in June, a judge ruled that Qualcomm will face an antitrust lawsuit.

United States Federal Trade Commission (this statement was quoted and endorsed by Judge Posner in last week's ruling)

The January 2018 resolution and settlement of VTech data breach enforcement actions by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the United States Federal Trade Commission provide important guidance for data security and compliance with personal information protection laws.

In addition, the United States Federal Trade Commission estimates that 1 in 5 Americans have a mistake on their credit report.

In addition, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommends that you check your credit report at least once a year to prevent identity theft and ensure your information is accurately reported to the credit bureaus.

The United States Federal Trade Commission has created a Web site, OnGuard Online, which provides general tips about navigating the Internet.

The United States Federal Trade Commission has created a website, OnGuard Online, which provides general tips about navigating the Internet.

After investigations by the United States Federal Trade Commission and Canada's Competition Bureau in 2010, 4 US bamboo companies were charged, and 78 warnings were issued for misleading advertising claims related to «bamboo fabrics».

The other 8 submissions posted since 21 July were from eBay, Global Shippers» Forum, NSW Taxi Council, Recruitment and Consulting Services Association, Sigma Pharmaceuticals Ltd, The Industry Group, The Infrastructure Group and the United States Federal Trade Commission (focus on misuse of market power, price signaling, and merger notification and review procedures).

The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) calls one of the core elements of its business «an abusive practice.»

Not exact matches

Advertising Standards Canada, the organization that will be enacting the guidelines later this year or by early 2017, says they will closely reflect the rules administered in the United States by the Federal Trade Commission.

He also spent more than three years as a federal prosecutor at the United States attorney's office in Manhattan, where he focused on insider trading and other financial fraud cases.

That's likely an extreme case, but other investigations by state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission have routinely found debt - settlement companies with completion rates of 10 % or less.

He knew he was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in the United States.

Though thick, lavishly illustrated Sunday papers became popular in the United States during the late 19th century as a form of weekend leisure, religious pressure to ban labour and trade on Sundays assured that Saturday papers remained the more popular weekend reading in Canada — something cemented by the passing of the federal Lord's Day Act in 1906.

Several of the financial filings note that the state and federal prosecutors want information regarding specific insulins for specific dates in relation to «trade practices.»

The Trade Agreement Act of 1979, Public Law 96 - 39 (July 26, 1979), prohibits Federal agencies from engaging in any standards or related activities that create unnecessary obstacles to the foreign commerce of the United States.

There's just no good outcome there,» said Richard Patch, vice president of federal affairs for the ASPCA, which pursues regulation of wild - animal ownership and trade at both the federal and state level.

To keep a step ahead of emerging scams, the Call Center also collaborates with a number of key leaders and community partners including the Attorney General's Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the Washington State Crime Prevention Association, the Better Business Bureau, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

The Federal Trade Commission and some states are beginning to test that premise.

The panel consists of the heads of federal agencies, including the departments of Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and State, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Showing unfair practices, Meal said, requires regulators to prove substantial consumer injuries, according to the Federal Trade Commission regulations state laws are based on.

Lawmakers and regulators have a range of options to choose from, including a major fine from the Federal Trade Commission, new federal legislation, state - level action, and even revising a federal statute that ensures platforms aren't responsible for the content posted oFederal Trade Commission, new federal legislation, state - level action, and even revising a federal statute that ensures platforms aren't responsible for the content posted ofederal legislation, state - level action, and even revising a federal statute that ensures platforms aren't responsible for the content posted ofederal statute that ensures platforms aren't responsible for the content posted on them.

Muni funds are usually traded by people with in the higher tax bracket because these funds are except from federal taxes... Sometimes even escape state taxes as well.

U.S. federal and state securities laws have catch - all provisions regarding secondary liability for aiding and abetting a violation of securities laws, which could apply for facilitating trading through an unregistered exchange.

While most secondary trades (as long as the seller isn't an «affiliate» of the issuer) are able to rely on the «resale exemption» at the federal level, there is a complete patchwork of regulation at the state level.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

In the Hertz deal, the Federal Trade Commission has played a major role in preserving competition in airport car rental markets by requiring Hertz to sell its Advantage Rent a Car business and the rights to operate about 30 Dollar Thrifty locations in airports throughout the United States.

Previously, she worked in government affairs at the Insured Retirement Institute, a financial services trade association, focusing on state and federal retirement matters.

The Federal Trade Commission, charged with regulating credit bureaus like Equifax, has declined to state whether it will launch an investigation after the hack.

While some state - level authorities have taken action including the Texas State Securities Board and NY Attorney General's Office, there have also been major actions on the federal level, including efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Cstate - level authorities have taken action including the Texas State Securities Board and NY Attorney General's Office, there have also been major actions on the federal level, including efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CState Securities Board and NY Attorney General's Office, there have also been major actions on the federal level, including efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

A coalition of at least 74 investors have filed proposals at 50 companies asking for lobbying reports that include federal and state lobbying payments, payments to trade associations used for lobbying, and payments to any tax - exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.

I mean Treasury, Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC], Justice Department, possibly the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and not to mention state attorneys general, or state regulators.

Industry trade groups like ICI have taken issue with the DOL's plan to boost workers» access to retirement plans through state - run programs, arguing that such plans will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

Industry trade groups like the Investment Company Institute and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association have come out against state - run plans, arguing that they will spur a «confusing, state - by - state patchwork of savings programs» that could lack strict federal controls.

Growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions of Facebook users by the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The use by respondents of a multilevel marketing program, which is in the nature of a lottery, is contrary to the public policy of the United States and is an unfair act and practice and an act of unfair competition within the intent and meaning of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

In addition to carbon capture and storage laws, Mr. Hill's registration filing states he's speaking to the government about natural gas infrastructure projects, harmonizing provincial and federal greenhouse gas reporting regulations and cap and trade issues.

Chapman expects it will develop into a prolonged recession caused largely by the bursting of the housing bubble and the weakness in the dollar attributable to the United States» large federal budget deficit and international trade imbalance.

BEIJING Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert Kaplan said on Tuesday he is quite hopeful that despite the recent trade skirmish between the United States and China, the rhetoric will de-escalate.

The SEC appreciates the assistance of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

On March 6, 2018, Judge Jack B. Weinstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that virtual currencies are commodities under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and therefore subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) anti-fraud and anti-manipulation enforcement authority.1 Granting the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction against the defendants who allegedly engaged in deception and fraud involving virtual currency spot markets, Judge Weinstein noted that «[u] ntil Congress clarifies the matter,» the CFTC has «concurrent authority» along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over transactions in virtual currency.2

The news broke over the weekend and has ignited a full - blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.

US Federal staff including Jay Clayton, the chair of the SEC, and his head of trading and markets division, Brett Redfearn, have gone on record several times stating that ICOs such as these should be policed in the same way as traditional securities (stocks, bonds and shares).

In a 2006 Scripps Howard / Ohio University poll, 36 percent said it was «very likely» or «somewhat likely» that «federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them because «they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East».»

NABI has been active in harmonizing the practices and procedures of international suppliers with the requirements for trade at the federal and state level in the American market.