9 Facts About Federal Trade Commission

1. The Federal Trade Commission ordered both respondents to cease and desist from using mock-ups in any "test, experiment or demonstration"—in the case of respondent Bates.

2. The Federal Trade Commission expressed the view that without this visible proof of Rapid Shave's moisturizing ability some viewers might not have been persuaded to buy the product.

3. The Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint against respondents Colgate and Bates charging that the commercials were false and deceptive.

4. The Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have had their identities stolen each year.

5. The Federal Trade Commission emerged from Progressive Era reformers' search for better means to manage large-scale industrial capitalism and to combat monopoly.

6. The Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to consider enacting privacy legislation that would be enforced by the FTC.

7. The US Federal Trade Commission is poised to begin a video game loot box investigation.

8. Under the FTC Act, the Federal Trade Commission has the authority, in most cases, to bring its actions in federal court through its own attorneys.

9. The new Federal Trade Commission would absorb the staff and duties of Bureau of Corporations, previously established under the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903.