05.11.17
The range of products targeted in recent false advertising class actions ran the gamut from baseball bats to a messaging app to soup.
05.04.17
Changes may be coming to TRUSTe’s safe harbor program under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule, and the Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment.
04.27.17
In what appears to be the first time a consumer protection law was used to object to a company engaging in GPS-based ad targeting, Copley Advertising settled with Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Martha Healey after she challenged the company's targeting of women near health clinics.
04.20.17
Amazon and the Federal Trade Commission have agreed to drop their appeals in a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of billing consumers for unauthorized in-app charges incurred by children.
04.13.17
The Federal Trade Commission banned the operators of an office supply business from telemarketing pursuant to a settlement deal in Texas federal court.
04.06.17
For going back on its promise to abide by the terms of a Federal Trade Commission order, Upromise will pay a $500,000 civil penalty to the agency.
03.30.17
The drama surrounding the Federal Communications Commission's privacy rules continues.
03.23.17
A distributor of pulley block systems agreed to stop making what the Federal Trade Commission said were false, misleading and unsupported claims that its products are “Made in USA.”
03.16.17
On March 1, Google updated its Play Store policies with a host of changes that take effect on March 15, 2017, including a requirement that app developers post a privacy policy to the store listing and provide certain in-app privacy disclosures.
03.02.17
The Federal Trade Commission demonstrated its intention to fight for the power to regulate data security by filing a 111-page brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in which it argued that the agency properly found that LabMD's practices ran afoul of the law.