Category Archives: FTC Compliance

Organic Consumers Association Files New Roundup Lawsuit Against Bigelow Tea

Organic Consumers Association Files New Roundup Lawsuit Against Bigelow Tea Posted by Roopal Luhana The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) recently filed a deceptive advertising lawsuit against tea-maker R. C. Bigelow, Inc., in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. It claims …

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A watchdog group says Gillette’s “Boston made” ad campaign is deceptive

A watchdog group says Gillette’s “Boston made” ad campaign is deceptive By Cale Guthrie Weissman Truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) has big problems with a recent Gillette national ad campaign. The company, in both commercials and on social media posts, highlighted its Boston headquarters, …

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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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Ancestry Made Its Privacy Policy More Transparent, but It Still Claims to Own Your DNA

Ancestry Made Its Privacy Policy More Transparent, but It Still Claims to Own Your DNA By Kristen V. Brown AncestryDNA, owned by the company behind family-tree website Ancestry.com, has taken at least one step toward making its policies more transparent. The …

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Why Data Privacy Matters Even More in an IoT World

Why Data Privacy Matters Even More in an IoT World By Juliet Childers Privacy is paramount, but as we further approach an IoT future, the lines of privacy and integration are blurring. Despite their page on data protection, Google repeatedly comes under fire every year for …

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City to seek $36.5 million in fines from Queens-based car dealer Major World for deceptive practices

City to seek $36.5 million in fines from Queens-based car dealer Major World for deceptive practices By Angela Matua The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) previously announced that they would seek more than $2 million from car dealer Major World for deceiving their customers, …

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What retailers should be aware of in developments in advertising law

What retailers should be aware of in developments in advertising law By Chad Finkelstein Having just survived peak shopping season, retailers — hoping to start 2018 off on a high note — are going to start vying for the public’s attention …

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All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You

All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You By David Nield The little pocket supercomputers we all constantly carry around with us aren’t just supplying us with useful information, they’re also collecting a host of data on us …

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Group Files FTC Complaint Against HSUS

Group Files FTC Complaint Against HSUS By Hoosier Ag Today The Center for Consumer Freedom filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding the Humane Society of the U.S. The non-profit CCF says the Humane Society is responsible for a …

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