FTC Deceptive Advertising Complaint Settled By WholeFoods Magazine Staff The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says a network of online marketers and the three people behind it have agreed to settle charges they sold more than 40 weight-loss, muscle-building, and wrinkle-reduction …

YouTube’s new profiles for children have privacy experts very concerned By Kari Paul Children’s video streaming may have just gotten more invasive. YouTube is now allowing parents to make profiles for their children that personalize content based on a child’s age and …

Medical school advertisements ‘can be misleading’ By Richard Wakeford & Chris McManus This week, an Advertising Standards Agency crackdown on deceptive claims by universities identified several institutions that it believes have misled students. Chief executive of the ASA, Guy Parker, said that the …

How to know when holiday advertising lies to you By Jeanette Kazmierczak In many cases, consumers are lured by many weeks’ worth of retail ads, marketing special holiday deals and the “best prices” of the holiday shopping season. Advertisements may …

Do your homework to protect privacy with popular DNA test kits By Tammy Palmer  DNA test kits are popular gifts during the holidays. Many people order them just to see where their ancestors are from. But there are other ways …

Conant Auto Retail Group to pay $1.4 million to settle FTC claims By Jamie LaReau Norm Reeves, Inc. and other entities managed by Conant Auto Retail Group have agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle charges that they violated a 2014 …

‘There is no such thing as soy milk’ By Frank Chung The ad watchdog has dismissed a complaint against Vitasoy after an upset TV viewer questioned the brand’s right to describe soy milk as “milk”. The ad in question features sweeping …

UPDATE: FDA Declines to Stop Coke, Pepsi from Advertising Artificially Sweetened Soda as “Diet” By Gary Ruskin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has denied a petition asking it to stop Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. from using the term “diet” in advertising, branding and …

These $5 ‘celebrity’ skin cream trials could cost you hundreds By Jackie Callaway Deceptive ads disguised as celebrity news have been luring and hooking consumers around the country. Theresa Sonberg signed up for a trial of the KA eye serum after …

Google Fixes ‘Creepy’ Docs Problem But Spying Fears Persist By Jeff John Roberts A glitch in the popular Google Docs service resulted in users getting locked out of their documents, according to a message, they had violated the company’s terms of service. …