Affilate Marketing Inside Scoop
The FTC has showed no signs of slowing down when it comes to data breach investigations and enforcement actions. In doing so, the Commission utilizes concepts of “unfairness” and “deception.” Companies that tell consumers they will safeguard their personal information are forced to live up to those representations. To establish that a
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A health products company and its owner have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Maine that they deceived consumers with promises that their products could treat everything from arthritis to memory loss. The proposed federal court order bars the defendants from engaging in
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President Trump has chosen Joseph J. Simons, an antitrust lawyer who has represented a number of tech companies, including Microsoft, to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Other seats at the agency have also been filled, one of which by Rohit Chopra, a fellow at a consumer advocacy group. The nominations are
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GDRP Impact on Digital Marketing The General Data Protection Regulation is a regulation that is intended to strengthen data protection for individuals within European Union countries. At its core, the GDPR is intended to provide individuals more control over and additional safeguards with respect to their personal data, including the right
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Last month, reports surfaced that Equifax, Inc., one of the nation’s leading credit reporting services, was the subject of a historic cyberattack that compromised the security of financial and other personal information of more than 143 million U.S. consumers. The data breach involved names, social security numbers, birth dates, addresses,
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FTC Defense Attorney Alert: “Influencer” Actions Make News The Federal Trade Commission has alerted influencers and those in control of them to three developments, including the FTC’s first law enforcement action against individual online influencers for their role in misleading advertising practices. According to the FTC, the respondents deceptively endorsed the online
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Shortly after being named the acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Maureen Ohlhausen stated that a consumer protection priority during her tenure will be stopping fraudulent schemes targeting vulnerable individuals, including the elderly. The Commission is making good on that promise. In May 2017, the FTC announced a broad-sweeping nationwide and
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