Category Archives: FTC Claims

Child talent search agency improperly collected info on kids

Child talent search agency improperly collected info on kids, deceived customers: Feds By Bill Moak In the past couple of decades, the children’s talent industry has been booming. Although the number of children who actually land a profitable modeling or acting …

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FTC’s Aggressive Enforcement of “Made in USA” Claims

FTC’s Aggressive Enforcement of “Made in USA” Claims By Jeffrey A Greenbaum (Frankfurt Kurnit Klein Selz) and Dorian Thomas (Frankfurt Kurnit Klein Selz) The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has continued to aggressively prosecute advertisers for making “Made in USA” claims that the FTC …

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FTC Sues Companies That Touted Get-Rich-Quick Scheme On Facebook

FTC Sues Companies That Touted Get-Rich-Quick Scheme On Facebook By Wendy Davis  The Federal Trade Commission has obtained an order against companies that allegedly ran ads on Facebook and Instagram to market a bogus get-rich-quick scheme. Digital Altitude, Aspire Processing and …

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Minneapolis marketing agency to pay $2 million to settle complaint on deceptive ads

Minneapolis marketing agency to pay $2 million to settle complaint on deceptive ads By Nicole Norfleet A Minneapolis advertising agency agreed to pay $2 million to the Federal Trade Commission and Maine’s attorney general office to settle a lawsuit in which …

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NY sues fentanyl drug maker for $75M

NY sues fentanyl drug maker for $75M By Claude Solnik New York State Attorney General’s office has filed a lawsuit charging that Insys Therapeutics used false advertising to market Subsys, a drug that includes fentanyl, a highly addictive drug. The law …

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Vtech settles FTC lawsuit over children’s data privacy

Vtech settles FTC lawsuit over children’s data privacy By David Lumb Two years ago, kids electronics maker Vtech suffered a data breach that exposed the personal info of five million customers (over half of whom were not adults). Naturally, the DOJ on behalf of …

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Marketers Barred from Making Deceptive Claims about Products Ability to Mitigate Side Effects of Cancer Treatment

Marketers Barred from Making Deceptive Claims about Products Ability to Mitigate Side Effects of Cancer Treatment By IVN CellMark Biopharma, LLC and its CEO have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false or unsupported claims regarding two …

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Supplement Companies Actually Claim Their Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs Can Help Reduce Opioid-withdrawal Symptoms

Say it Ain’t So: Supplement Companies Actually Claim Their Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs Can Help Reduce Opioid-withdrawal Symptoms By David Schardt Experts say that the supplements make no difference in relieving opioid withdrawal. “There’s no credible evidence that dietary supplements can help with the prevention of opioid …

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Court calls dodgy science publisher ‘deceptive,’ issues injunction

Court calls dodgy science publisher ‘deceptive,’ issues injunction By Tom Spears A U.S. court has ordered the world’s biggest fake science publisher — a company that accepted a ridiculous paper on flying pigs submitted by this newspaper — to stop its “deceptive” …

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Sears Petitions to Change Its 8-Year-Old FTC Privacy Settlement Order

Sears Petitions to Change Its 8-Year-Old FTC Privacy Settlement Order By Wendell Bartnick  On October 30, 2017, Sears Holding Management Corporation (“Sears”) petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to reopen and modify the settlement to which they agreed in 2009.  At that time, …

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