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- Category: Blog
- [Whitepaper] Five Common Compliance Missteps of Financial Bloggers
- 2015 President's Club Award Winner
- A Note from the President
- A Rise in the Trade Industry
- Addressing the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials for Your Institution
- Avoiding Litigation: The win/win for Attorneys and Clients
- Avoiding TSR Violations
- Behind the Lines: Short Stories of Mystery Shopping Admissions Reps
- Big Data Talks at APSCU
- Compliant Landing Pages
- Compliant Website Checklist
- Conversions vs. Compliance
- Conversions vs. Compliance
- Copyright Infringement: Abuse vs. Fair Use
- Creating a Culture of Compliance
- Crowdfunding Introduced to Consumer Reviews
- Dear Admissions: High School Graduates Are Listening
- EDU Compliance for Email Marketing
- Employment Verification: Accuracy Required
- Employment Verification: Going the Extra Mile
- Financial Aid Fraud Rings: Is your school at risk?
- Fraudulent Advertising: What Nobody Tells You
- FTC Joins the Fight Against Private Sector Schools
- Gainful Employment Disclosure Template
- Gates Foundation Works to Save Pell Grants
- How the CFPB is Shaping the Short Term Lending Industry
- How the Good Get Punished: Online Marketing
- Identity Theft
- Industry Insight: New Placement Verification Research
- Inspect What You Expect—Monitoring Your Admissions Staff
- IntegriShield to Host Fraudulent Lead Generation Webinar
- Is Your School Prepared?
- Let's Talk About Best Practices and Regulations!
- LinkedIn for Higher Education
- Minimizing the Impact of Debt Relief Scams
- Minnesota Increases Scrutiny of For-Profit Colleges
- Not Your Average Defendant
- Penalties Increased and So Did Your Risk. How Exposed Are You?
- Revisiting TCPA Language
- Student Data Tells a Story
- Takeaways from DOE's Gainful Employment Ruling
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act 2013 Updates: Are You Prepared?
- The Danger of Not Knowing
- The Importance of Brand Management
- The Presidents Call to Action: Value, Affordability and Student Outcome
- The Risk of Infringement
- Trump Administration vs. Student Loans
- Understanding Bait and Switch Advertising in the EDU Sector
- VAWA Reauthorization: What it means for your school.
- VLOG: Compliance Trends in Lead Gen
- Vlog: TCPA Ruling
- Vlog: Text Messages and the FCC
- Vlog: The FTC and Updated Rules on Testimonials
- VLOG: Unauthorized Landing Pages - Free Advertising or Conversion Killers?
- Web Auditing Checklist for Higher Education
- When a Free Lead Can Cost You
- Your Mistakes Are Giving Prospects Cold Feet
- Category: In The News 2016
- ‘Smart’ Ways To Avoid FTC Internet Of Things Scrutiny
- “Education Department’s proposed rule for student debt forgiveness could threaten traditional colleges as well as for-profits, particularly over its broad view of what counts as misrepresentation.”
- “In the past, the FTC went to great lengths to calm fears that these individual bloggers would not be subject. But anybody can be held responsible for a failure to disclose.”
- “The Department of Education Staff on Wednesday recommended the revocation of ACICS’s recognition as an accreditation body.”
- $30.4 Million TCPA Settlement Against Wells Fargo
- $500 is the Max – The TCPA is Not a Fee Shifting Statute
- 3 Steps to Prepare for DOL Fiduciary Rule
- A.G. Schneiderman Announces $12 Million Settlement with DraftKings and FanDuel
- ACA Submits Comments Opposing the CFPB’s Payday Lending Proposed Rule
- Accreditor Puts 5 Colleges on Probation
- Advertising Through Social Media: Ten Tips For FTC & NAD Compliance
- Advisers plan to spend more for compliance and tech in 2017
- Advocacy Group Files FTC Complaint Over Kardashians’ Instagram Ads
- Airbnb Sues Anaheim Over Law That Makes Website Liable for Illegal Short Term Rentals
- Alert: FTC Increases Fees for National Do-Not-Call Registry
- Are B2B marketers in compliance with FTC native advertising guidelines?
- Are your website disclosures putting you at risk?
- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces $168.5 Million Settlement with K12 Inc., a For-Profit Online Charter School Operator
- Bank of America Will Pay $1M to Resolve a Class Action Suit for Violating TCPA.
- BBB WARNS SCAMMERS DEMANDING STUDENTS PAY FAKE ‘FEDERAL STUDENT TAX’
- Brown Mackie Will Close Most of Its Colleges
- Buckle Up: Ad Fraud’s Going to Take Us For a Wild Ride in 2017
- Career Point College students, teachers receive letter saying school’s shutdown
- CFPB Appealing Unconstitutional Ruling
- CFPB Can’t Force For-Profit School Accreditor To Turn Over Info
- CFPB Fines Dwolla 100k for Misrepresenting Data Security Practices
- CFPB Takes Action Against Reverse Mortgage Companies for Deceptive Advertising
- CFPB Warns Financial Companies About Sales and Production Incentives That May Lead to Fraud or Consumer Abuse
- CFPB Will Appeal Decision Blocking its Investigation into College Accreditation Organization
- CFPB: Unnecessary Obstacles for Lower Loan Payments
- CFTC Signs MOU with UK Financial Conduct Authority to Enhance Supervision of Cross-Border Regulated Firms
- Chairman Wheeler Applauds Robocall & Telemarketing Protections in TCPA
- Citigroup is suing AT&T on the grounds that its use of the term, “ThankYou”, amounts to a trademark infringement
- Citizens Bank to Pay Over $4.5 Million to Settle TCPA Suit
- Complaint Alleges T-Mobile and Subway Violated TCPA
- Court Finds CFPB’s `Unaccountable’ Structure Unconstitutional, Too
- Court Reinstates False Claims Suit Against For Profit College
- Cremation costs causing confusion for consumers
- Debt Collection Tops 2015 List of Most Common Consumer Complaints
- Debt collectors: You may “like” social media and texts, but are you complying with the law?
- Debt Relief Defendants Agree to Telemarketing and Financial Services Ban and Payment Processors Agree to Payment Processing Ban to Settle FTC Action
- DeVry settles claims of deceptive advertising for $100 million
- DeVry University Reaches Settlement Deal With Education Department
- DeVry voluntarily dials back revenue from federal student aid
- Digital Advertising Company Settles FTC Charges It Deceptively Tracked Consumers Both Online and Through Their Mobile Devices
- Do Consumers Know Better? Chobani, Facing False-Advertising Suit, Thinks So
- Dodd-Frank will be targeted, Mnuchin says
- Dorsey’s TCPA Team Earns First-of-Its-Kind Order Staying Individual TCPA Case Pending D.C. Circuit’s Ruling on Consolidated Appeal of the FCC’s 2015 Omnibus Order
- Dun & Bradstreet Settles TCPA Class Action Lawsuit for $10 Million
- ED terminates recognition of ACICS: Next Steps
- ED’s proposed rules for state authorization and distance learning
- Education malpractice and student litigation: New lessons learned
- Embattled for-profit college network under new scrutiny
- Extending Authorities to All Tobacco Products, Including E-Cigarettes, Cigars, and Hookah
- FCC Issues Declaratory Ruling That the Federal Government and Contractors Acting Within Agency Scope Are Not Subject to the TCPA
- Federal bill asks FTC to develop rules on photoshopping in ads
- Feds cut off financial aid funding to health-care trade schools in the Washington area
- Fintech Darling LendUp To Pay $6.3M In CFPB-Calif. Deal
- For-profit Bridgepoint Education forced to forgive $24 million in private student loans
- For-Profit University Can’t Block TCPA Class Claims Yet
- FTC Action: Texas Car Dealers to Pay $85,000 Civil Penalty
- FTC Acts on BBB Tip to Shut Down Insurance Fraud
- FTC Alerts Telemarketers that TSR Prohibits Certain Payment Methods; Warns Consumers that Use of the Payment Methods Is Illegal
- FTC Announces Second Federal Register Notice on Proposed Orders Requiring Electronic Cigarette Marketers to Produce Information about Sales and Marketing Expenditures
- FTC Approves Final Changes to Used Car Rule
- FTC approves final inflation amendments for maximum civil penalty
- FTC Approves Final Order Requiring Warner Bros. to Disclose Payments to Online Influencers
- FTC Approves Four Final Orders Barring Companies from Making False All-Natural Claims
- FTC bans mortgage relief operation from the industry
- FTC bans mortgage relief operation from the industry
- FTC Charges Los Angeles-Based Sage Auto Group With Using Deceptive and Unfair Sales and Financing Tactics
- FTC Charges Prepaid Card Company Deceptively Marketed Reloadable Debit Card
- FTC Charges Purported Insulated House Wrap Marketer with Making False Claims
- FTC Charges Tech Support Companies With Using Deceptive Pop-Up Ads to Scare Consumers Into Purchasing Unneeded Services
- FTC Is Cracking Down On Failure To Disclose Influencers’ Connections
- FTC Issues Final Rule Amendments Related to the E-Warranty Act
- FTC Releases Annual Summary of Consumer Complaints
- FTC Robocall Contest Rules Under Fire Again
- FTC Rules California Naturel, Inc. Misled Consumers, Violated the FTC Act
- FTC Staff Perspective Recaps Lead Generation Workshop
- FTC sues 1-800 Contacts over online search advertising
- FTC sues education lead generator for bogus job application process
- FTC Targets Brand Owner Policing Search Ad Keywords
- FTC Wins First Jury Verdict in Telemarketing Case
- FTC Wins Some, Loses Some at Second Circuit in LeanSpa Appeal
- FTC, Florida Attorney General Take Action Against Illegal Robocall Operation
- FTC’s Lord & Taylor Case: In Native Advertising, Clear Disclosure is Always in Style
- Funeral Home Settles FTC Charges it Violated Funeral Rule
- Funerals -Bring Transparency to the Purchase We All Have to Make
- Genie Bra, Total Pillow marketers fined, ordered to clean up their sales practices
- Give visually impaired better internet access
- Google AdWords Payday Loans Ban Now Goes Into Effect?
- Google to ban ads for payday loans
- Google-backed LendUp fined by regulators over payday lending practices
- GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling proposes overhaul of Dodd-Frank
- Govt. Wants Rehearing In Case Challenging CFPB Structure
- Grab the Rings and Go For the Gold, At Your Own Risk
- Green Coffee Adman Must Disgorge $29M In Fake Ad Suit
- Groups want funeral homes to post prices online
- Guess Text Recipient Seeks OK Of Deal To End TCPA Suit
- Heritage College Closes Abruptly; 10 US Campuses Shuttered Mid-Term
- House of Representatives Passes Consumer Review Fairness Act and Better Online Ticket Sales Acts
- How Do You Regulate the Digital Health Revolution?
- How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters
- Indiana: Push to shutter for-profit-college accreditor could hit 51,000 Hoosiers
- Interest-Based Advertising Disclosure Requirements Become More Clear—and Potentially More Burdensome
- Is This the End of Antibacterial Hand and Body Washes?
- Is Your Website ADA Compliant? Are You Ready for Potential New ADA Website Rules?
- ITT Technical Institute to Close After Government Cut Off New Funding
- ITT Technical Institute to Close After Government Cut Off New Funding
- JP Morgan Chase to Pay $3.75 Million to Settle TCPA Suit on Calls to Reassigned Phone Numbers
- Judge’s fraud ruling threatens to close Globe U, Minnesota School of Business
- Key Trademark and Copyright Issues Every Print or Digital Media Publishing Company Should Know: In Practical Terms
- Kohl’s TCPA Lawsuit Makes a Play for Class Certification
- Lead Generator Defendants in Tech-Support Scam Agree to Settlement With FTC and the State of Florida
- Lifestyle Blogging, Supplement Dust, and Third Party Liability
- MediaWorks pulls ads for payday lender Pretty Penny Loans from Mai FM
- MetLife to pay $25M penalty for annuity sales violations as reported by St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Milk Studios and Samsung Settle Lawsuit Out of Court
- MLM Industry ‘Income Averages’ And ‘Retail’ Sales Claims Are Part Of Deception FTC Must Halt
- National Association of Federal Credit Unions statement on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s payday lending proposal
- National Consumer Protection Week
- New Gainful Employment Disclosures. There was an excellent webinar series hosted by Thompson Coburn LLP.
- Nothing new under the sun as FTC seeks to expand power over solar
- Nursing Home Chain Inks Record $145M FCA Deal With DOJ
- Olympic Sponsors Must Follow Strict Social Media Rules
- Operators of AshleyMadison.com Settle FTC, State Charges Resulting From 2015 Data Breach that Exposed 36 Million Users’ Profile Information
- Payday-Lending Curbs: Thumbs Down From Banks
- Penalties Increased and So Did Your Risk. How Exposed Are You?
- Pfizer Nabs 9th Circ. Victory In Zoloft False-Ad Suit
- Pizza Hut Franchises Can’t Shake Fla. TCPA Allegations
- Publishers and Ad Industry caught between rock and hard place concerning FCC ruling
- Purina, Blue Buffalo False Ad Fight Ends With Settlement
- Regulators Raise Marketplace Lending Concerns at FTC FinTech Forum
- Regulators’ Next Target? Lenders’ Digital Marketing Compliance
- Reminder: Inflation increases for maximum civil penalty amounts start August 1, 2016. Click Read More to see the Federal Register for details on each citation
- Robocalls are a TCPA Violation even if made By or on Behalf of a Tax-exempt Nonprofit
- Rutledge Reaches Settlement with Online Payday Lender
- Sales Lead Generators Fined and Barred from Violating FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule
- Sallie Mae Again Dodges Suit In Culinary School Fraud Row
- Scorecard for Accreditors (with link to full report)
- Senator Durbin Statement on Department of Education Actions Against ITT Tech
- Senators Urge FTC To Examine Ad Fraud
- Small Agency, Big Impact
- Small Business Administration opposes payday lending rules
- Small-Dollar Loan Proposed Rule FAQs
- Stricter PRC online advertising regulation in response to search scandal
- Study about branded drug website risk disclosure gets FTC attention
- Study Finds Third Of Native Ads Fail To Comply, Perform Better Than Fed Guidelines
- Supreme Court denies POM’s request to review ruling that ads were deceptive
- Supreme Court Rejects Privacy Claim in Data Broker Case
- Sweeping New Federal Regulations for the Prepaid Industry
- T-Mobile Fined Millions for Selling Unlimited Data Plans that Weren’t Really Unlimited
- The Cost of Noncompliance: LifeLock Continues to Pay
- The Fight For Leads: Healthcare Marketing
- The FTC Is Coming For the Celeb Social Media #Sponcon Racket
- The NAD’s First Native Ad Case Since Issuance of FTC Native Ad Guides
- The Obama Administration Could Cause the Next Big For-Profit College Collapse
- The Risk of Unhealthy Telemarketing Practices
- The TCPA As Great Uniter? Democrats and Tea Party Republicans Join Forces, File Suit Seeking To Have The TCPA Declared Unconstitutional
- Trade group promises stricter scrutiny of payday loan ads
- Trump to Pay $25 Million to Settle Lawsuits Over ‘Trump U.’
- U.S. Government Cuts Off New Funding for ITT Technical Institute
- United States: Compliance Focus: FTC Begins Study Of Consumer Disclosures
- University May Remove Online Content to Avoid Disability Law
- Update: FCC Releases Consumer Advisory Committee’s Formal Recommendations on TCPA Proposed Rule
- Vet Your Vendors to Safeguard Customer Information
- Walgreen Co. to Pay $500k Fine for Misleading Ads
- Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Adequately Disclose It Paid Online Influencers to Post Gameplay Videos
- We’ve proposed a rule to protect consumers from payday debt traps
- Wells Fargo To Pay $185M Fine For Fraudulent Sales Tactics
- What Can Halt Undisclosed Marketing on Social Media?
- What You Need to Know about FTC Guidance for Collecting Consumer Health Data
- When Do “Made in USA” Claims Spark the FTC’s Attention?
- When too Much Control can Lead to Trouble with the FTC
- Why are payday loan ads still showing on Google after the ban?
- Why the Caribbean Cruise Line Record-Breaking TCPA Settlement Could Contribute to “The End of the [TCPA] World As We Know It” (and We Feel Fine)
- Wyndham Pays $7.3M To End Suit Over Recorded Calls
- Yahoo Urges Judge To Throw Out Robo-Texting Class-Action
- Category: In The News 2017
- ‘Excessive’ Shipping Fees May Be Next Target of Consumer Class Actions
- ‘Tis the season for stopping robocalls
- “Enter to Win!” Rules For Advertising Product Giveaways And Sweepstakes
- [U.K.] Opt-in–based marketing is more than just a GDPR problem
- $11M Settlement In Frontier TCPA Row Gets Final Nod
- 2nd Circ. Tosses TCPA Suit Against Auto Financial Co.
- Acting Chairman Ohlhausen Welcomes FCC Action as Important Step to Restore FTC Consumer Protections
- Acting FTC Chairman Announces Departure of Economics Bureau Director, Appointment of Acting Bureau Director
- Aetna Hit With Class Action Over HIV Drug Disclosure
- American Bar Association Cracks Down on Low-Performing Law Schools
- AT&T Lobbies For ‘Safe Harbor’ In Robocall Policy
- BBB revokes MyPillow accreditation over complaints, advertising violations
- Betsy DeVos Is Being Sued By 17 States Over For-Profit College Rules
- BREAKING: Fed. Circ. Rules Ban On ‘Scandalous’ Trademarks Unconstitutional
- BREAKING: Trump Appoints Ohlhausen As Acting FTC Chair
- CFPB announces handful of leadership changes
- CFPB fines TransUnion and Equifax for deceiving consumers with their marketing
- CFPB Issues Rule to Ban Companies From Using Arbitration Clauses to Deny Groups of People Their Day in Court
- CFPB Proposes Delay to Rule Governing Prepaid Accounts Under the Electronic Fund Transfer Act
- CFPB Report Warns That Taking Out a Reverse Mortgage Loan Can Be an Expensive Way to Maximize Social Security Benefits
- CFPB Takes Action Against Aequitas Capital Management for Aiding Corinthian Colleges’ Predatory Lending Scheme
- CFPB Takes Action Against Zero Parallel for Steering Consumers Toward Bad Deals
- CFPB Wins Full DC Circ. Review Of Leadership Ruling
- CFPB’s Change Of Payday Lending’s Heart?
- Class Rep. Payouts Cut In $14M American Eagle TCPA Deal
- Class Wins Cert. In DirecTV Telemarketing Suit
- Congressional Republicans use special maneuver to kill ‘arbitration rule’
- Consumers Get Cert. In Solar Co. Cellphone Robocalls Suit
- Cordray to resign from CFPB, clouding future of watchdog agency
- Cordray Vows To Maintain CFPB Independence Under Trump
- Costco Fax Recipients Get Class Cert. In TCPA Suit
- Court Finds Revocation of Consent Unreasonable, Tosses Suit
- Court opinion considers soundboard technology and the Robocall Rule
- Court Win For Students Over Predatory For-Profit Colleges
- CSGO Lotto Owners Settle FTC’s First-Ever Complaint Against Individual Social Media Influencers
- DC Circ. Says 17 States, 2 Dem Lawmakers Can’t Defend CFPB
- Debt Collector’s $3.2M TCPA Suit Deal Gets Initial OK
- Deceptive Marketing — Is Coca-Cola taking a page book from the tobacco industry?
- DePaul Can’t Dodge TCPA Suit Over Unsolicited Texts
- Devos Defends Termination of For-Profit College Accreditor
- DeVos delays and eases appeals process for colleges under gainful employment rule
- Disability suits over website access surge
- Disclose or Else: FTC Steps Up Prosecution of Social Media Influencers
- Dish Hit With $280M Penalty In TCPA Suit By Feds, States
- Disney in New Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
- District Court Denies Class Certification in TCPA Case; Finds No Injury Possible Where Call Recipients Consented to Calls, Even if Consent Not in Writing
- Don’t Allow Politics to Rush Credit Access Rules
- ED Delays Borrower Defense to Repayment Regulations, Announces New Negotiated Rulemaking Committees
- EXCLUSIVE: DeVry University to pay $2.75M in deal with N.Y. attorney general for false ads on success of its graduates
- Expedia Can’t Slim Hotels’ False Ad Suit, Court Told
- F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules
- Facebook Can’t Ditch ‘Happy Birthday’ Text Row, Judge Says
- Fair Housing Act Advertising Checklist
- False promises from a work-at-home scam
- FCC Fines Co. $2.8M For Powering Robocalls To Cellphones
- FCC’s O’Rielly Calls For ‘Rational’ Changes To TCPA
- FDA to Extend E-Cig Marketing Compliance Deadline
- Florida-Based Insurer Pays $4.25M To End TCPA Suit
- For-Profit Colleges Find Few Reasons to Lobby a Friendlier Education Dept.
- Former Kansan — and net neutrality foe — set to lead the FCC
- FTC Acting Chairman Ohlhausen Names Thomas Pahl Acting Director of the Agency’s Bureau of Consumer Protection
- FTC Announces Agenda for Joint Conference on Protecting Military Consumers
- FTC Can Treat Soundboard Calls As Robocalls, Judge Says
- FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez Announces Resignation
- FTC Charges Online Marketing Scheme with Deceiving Shoppers
- FTC Escalates the Fight against Illegal Robocalls Using Consumer Complaints to Aid Industry Call-Blocking Solutions
- FTC Extension of Robocalling Rules Is Approved By Federal Court
- FTC Releases 2016 Annual Highlights
- FTC Settlement Bars Spam Email Marketing, Baseless Weight-Loss Claims by Diet-Pill Operation
- FTC Slaps Wrist Of For-Profit College Marketer That Tricked Vets; Many Bad Wrists Remain
- FTC Staff Reminds Influencers and Brands to Clearly Disclose Relationship
- FTC to Hold Twitter Chat on Social Media Influencer Disclosures
- FTC Updates COPPA Guidance for IoT and New Consent Options
- FTC, Florida Attorney General Close the Book on Robocall Ring That Pitched U.S. Consumers Worthless Credit Card Rate Reduction Programs
- FTC, New York State Charge the Marketers of Prevagen With Making Deceptive Memory, Cognitive Improvement Claims
- FTC’s Latest ROSCA Lesson: ‘Simply’ Let Consumers Cancel
- Gainful Employment and the AACS court decision: What it means for schools
- Gallup Faces TCPA Suit Over Purported Automated Call
- Gap Hit With TCPA Suit Over Autodialed Calls
- Google Starts Flagging Sites With Insecure Logins To Protect Your Data
- Häagen-Dazs Can’t Escape TCPA Class Action for “Thank You” Text
- Here Are All The Financial Reforms That Will Disappear With Dodd-Frank
- Here’s how the final GOP tax bill would hit your wallet
- Hobby Lobby to Change Advertising Practices as Part of Settlement
- Hold That Order! FDA Freezes Menu Labeling Rules Until 2018
- Homebuilder slammed for online review tampering
- Hooters Settles TCPA Suit For $1.3M In Gift Cards
- Hotels Consolidate In Expedia ‘Bait And Switch’ Suit
- House OKs Bill Loosening Bank Privacy Disclosure Rules
- How to balance marketing and compliance
- Ill. Pharmacy Hits Medical Supply Co. With TCPA Fax Suit
- JC Penney Hit With TCPA Suit Over Autodialing
- Justice Department to end Obama-era ‘Operation Choke Point’
- LeadsCouncil Reacts to Performance Marketing Company Settlement
- LeadsCouncil reveals the 2017 Lead Generation Standards Guide
- Legal Review: Huffing and Puffing Can Blow Your House Down
- LuLaRoe is facing a class-action lawsuit from consultants who call it a ‘pyramid scheme’
- Macy’s Accused Of Harassing Consumers With Robocalls
- Marriott Hit With TCPA Suit For Unsolicited Marketing Calls
- Miami Man Faces $120 Million Fine for 96-Million Robocall Spree
- Milwaukee Passes Ordinance Aimed at Blocking Low-Quality For-Profit Colleges
- Mini Law Lesson: What Advertisers and Agencies Need to Worry About in 2017
- Monitronics To Pay $28M To End TCPA Robocall MDL
- Multilevel Marketing Industry Rife with Misleading Income ClaimsInvestigation by Ad Watchdog TINA.org Amasses Over 3,000 Examples
- National coalition of attorneys general launches effort to stop embattled college accreditor
- National Consumer Protection Week is March 4 – 10, 2018
- New Delay on Borrower-Defense Rule
- New FTC Acting Chair Maureen Ohlhausen Offers Insight into Consumer Protection Priorities
- NY Life Insurance To Pay $3.4M To Settle TCPA Suit
- Online Travel Agency Secretly Records Calls, Suit Says
- Personalized Scam Emails on the Rise
- President Trump Cuts Through More Red Tape
- Recidivist Robocaller Settles FTC Telemarketing Complaint
- Regulatory Changes May Boost Cosmetics Liability Claims
- Robocalls—and complaints about robocalls—are booming
- Robocalls, Reassigned Numbers On FCC Meeting Agenda
- RobocalSites Illegally Tracked Consumers New Suits Allege
- Rooms To Go Slapped With TCPA Suit Over Marketing Calls
- SEC Identifies Most Frequent Compliance Issues Associated with Advertising by Investment Advisers
- Showtime Hit With Suit Over Mayweather-McGregor Stream
- Social Media Update: FINRA Releases Additional Guidance on Social Networking Websites and Business Communications
- Solar Panel Lead Generation Robocallers Who Pitched Energy Savings Settle FTC Charges
- Stratford Career Institute Agrees to Settle FTC Charges
- Surprising Results for U.S. Chamber Statistics on TCPA Cases
- TCPA Defendants Down, But Not Out, With ‘Pick-Off’ Ruling
- Telecom Co. CenturyLink Hit With TCPA Suit Over Robocalls
- Text Marketing Co. Slapped With TCPA Class Action
- The FCC just voted to repeal its net neutrality rules, in a sweeping act of deregulation
- The Senate Voted to Make It Harder to Sue Banks
- The Trump Administration Is Delaying Enforcement Of For-Profit College Rules
- Tribal Lenders Ask 9th Circ. To Pause OK Of CFPB Probe
- U.S. Department of Education Announces Thousands of New Loan Discharges
- Uber Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Settle FTC Charges That it Recruited Prospective Drivers with Exaggerated Earnings Claims a reported on
- Wash. Judge Denies Twilio Sanctions Bid In TCPA Lawsuit
- Wells Fargo To Pay $2M In TCPA Student Loan Call Suit
- Westech College closes campuses in Fontana, Moreno Valley and Victorville
- Where Winds Are Blowing on Accreditation
- Yahoo Suit Against Insurer Over TCPA Cases Tossed, For Now
- Category: In the News 2018
- “Money, It’s a Gas” – Bureau Director Smith Makes NAD Debut
- “We’re Updating Our Privacy Policies” – Consent Under the GDPR
- #MarketingLaw – Update from the 2018 ANA/BAA Marketing Law Conference
- 50 Colleges Hit With ADA Lawsuits
- 50 senators endorse resolution to restore FCC net neutrality regulations
- A New Day Is About To Dawn At The FTC. What’s Next?
- A telemarketer made about 21 million robocalls in 3 months. The FCC just fined it $82 million
- A Victory for Introductory Offer and Subscription Advertisers: FTC Fails to Prove Deception Against DIRECTV
- Ad Industry Leads Effort to Amend CCPA
- Advertisers Tell FTC California Privacy Law Threatens Web Economy
- Advertising Marijuana Businesses: The Federal Criminal Law You Need to Know
- Attorney General seeks feedback from those who purchased solar power systems
- BCFP Enters Consent Order with Small Dollar Lender
- California Enacts Nation’s First Anti-Bot Law
- California Passes Groundbreaking Consumer Data Privacy Law With Fines for Violations
- Can state AGs really serve as ‘mini-CFPBs’?
- CFPB leadership remains uncertain despite another Trump administration court victory
- CFPB Releases Consumer Complaint Snapshot: 50 State Report
- CFPB Statement on Payday Rule
- Changes to Illinois Mortgage Advertising Rules – Effective Immediately
- Changes to Landmark California Privacy Law Headed to Governor
- Check Your Rates – Comply with FTC Variable Rate Marketing Guidelines
- Choosing Your Words Carefully in Advertising: NAD Recommends Advertiser Discontinue Use of the Word “Choosing”
- Cisco pulls all online ads from YouTube
- COLORADO ENACTS NEW PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY LEGISLATION
- Companies fined for using ‘Army.com,’ other scam websites to steal personal data
- Complaint snapshot: 50 state report
- Confusion In Calif. Privacy Act’s Anti-Discrimination Rule
- Consumer financial services at a crossroads: Payment processing
- Consumer Lenders Beware: New California Privacy Law Likely Applies
- Critic who now heads consumer-watchdog bureau launches major review
- D.C. Circuit Issues Long-Awaited Decision in ACA Challenge to FCC TCPA Rulemaking
- DBankThink Mulvaney’s revamp of CFPB should include its innovation hub
- DeVry Escapes False Ad Suit Over Grad Employment Numbers
- Do as I say, not as I do: third-party liability and the TCPA
- Do Not Call complaints soar in Ohio
- Does Your Company Website Comply With Title III of the ADA?
- DOJ Drops Plans for ADA Guidance
- DSA Announces Support for H.R. 7029
- Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over ‘forced consent’
- FCC Creates Reassigned Numbers Database to Combat Unwanted Robocalls
- FCC Wants More Input on Reassigned Numbers
- Federal Lawmakers Consider Fintech
- FTC Accuses Group of Running Empire That Made Billions of Unwanted Robocalls
- FTC Announces Hearings On Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
- FTC Announces Opening Session of Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century September 13-14 at Georgetown University Law Center
- FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Cowboy Toyota Deceptive Advertising Case
- FTC Charges Lending Club with Deceiving Consumers
- FTC files comments on CFPB’s CID RFI
- FTC Hits Digital Altitude – Aspire With A Temporary Restraining Order
- FTC Lauds Establishment of the Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council
- FTC Obtains Court Order against Woman Who Allegedly Helped Telemarketers Pitch Phony Money-Making Opportunities and Grants
- FTC Provides Comment to FCC Encouraging Providers of Call-Blocking Services to Take Steps to Avoid Blocking Wanted Calls
- FTC Returns Money to Consumers Harmed in Alleged Payday Loan Scheme
- FTC Returns Money to Consumers Who Bought Purported Business Coaching Programs
- FTC Seeks to Hold Companies to GDPR Promises
- FTC staff answers questions about MLMs
- FTC to Tap Covington’s Smith to Lead Consumer Protection Unit
- FTC urges a ‘rethink’ of data privacy at hearing
- FTC, states increase pressure on Facebook on privacy
- Gainful employment: Alternate earnings appeals due February 1
- Gainful-Employment Disclosures Delayed Again
- GDPR goes live this week. What happens next?
- Google is pulling addiction treatment center ads worldwide
- Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop brand hit with penalties for 'unsubstantiated claims'.
- Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
- High Stakes for Marijuana Businesses: New Massachusetts Advertising & Marketing Regulations
- How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing
- How state attorneys general are driving tech policy
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- COLORADO ENACTS NEW PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY LEGISLATION
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- Federal Lawmakers Consider Fintech
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- For-Profit Educational Institution to Pay $191 Million to Settle FTC Charges of Deceptive Advertising
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- From Feds to States, Privacy Laws Make Headlines
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- FTC Accuses Group of Running Empire That Made Billions of Unwanted Robocalls
- FTC Acting Chairman Ohlhausen Names Thomas Pahl Acting Director of the Agency’s Bureau of Consumer Protection
- FTC Action: Texas Car Dealers to Pay $85,000 Civil Penalty
- FTC Acts on BBB Tip to Shut Down Insurance Fraud
- FTC Alerts Telemarketers that TSR Prohibits Certain Payment Methods; Warns Consumers that Use of the Payment Methods Is Illegal
- FTC and CFPB Provide Guidance on Buy Now, Pay Later Products After State AGs Urge CFPB for Oversight
- FTC and DOJ File First Action Under COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act
- FTC and State AGs Continue Focus on Deceptive Social Media Marketing
- FTC Announces Agenda for Joint Conference on Protecting Military Consumers
- FTC Announces First Actions Enforcing The Consumer Review Fairness Act
- FTC Announces Hearings On Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
- FTC Announces New Business Guidance for Marketers and Sellers of Health Products
- FTC Announces Opening Session of Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century September 13-14 at Georgetown University Law Center
- FTC Announces Second Federal Register Notice on Proposed Orders Requiring Electronic Cigarette Marketers to Produce Information about Sales and Marketing Expenditures
- FTC Approves Final Changes to Used Car Rule
- FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Cowboy Toyota Deceptive Advertising Case
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- FTC Approves Final Order Requiring Warner Bros. to Disclose Payments to Online Influencers
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- FTC bans mortgage relief operation from the industry
- FTC Calling for National Data Privacy Law: Data Privacy Trends
- FTC Can Treat Soundboard Calls As Robocalls, Judge Says
- FTC Chair Khan Names Henry Liu as the Agency’s Bureau of Competition Director
- FTC Chairman Simons Addresses 2019 ANA Conference
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- FTC Charges Lending Club with Deceiving Consumers
- FTC Charges Los Angeles-Based Sage Auto Group With Using Deceptive and Unfair Sales and Financing Tactics
- FTC Charges Online Marketing Scheme with Deceiving Shoppers
- FTC Charges Prepaid Card Company Deceptively Marketed Reloadable Debit Card
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- FTC Charges Tech Support Companies With Using Deceptive Pop-Up Ads to Scare Consumers Into Purchasing Unneeded Services
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- FTC Compliance Attorney Discusses Agency’s Dramatic Proposed Updates to Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships
- FTC Compliance Attorney Foreshadows Evolving Biz Opp Rule to Include Money-Making, Business Coaching and Mentoring, and eCommerce and Investment Opportunities
- FTC Cracks Down on Company Touting the Best Reviews Money Could Buy
- FTC crunches the 2022 numbers. See where scammers continue to crunch consumers.
- FTC Escalates the Fight against Illegal Robocalls Using Consumer Complaints to Aid Industry Call-Blocking Solutions
- FTC Explores Changes, Possible Expansion of Its Business Opportunity Rule
- FTC Extension of Robocalling Rules Is Approved By Federal Court
- FTC files comments on CFPB’s CID RFI
- FTC Files First Case Seeking Civil Penalties For Allegedly Deceptive COVID-19 Advertising
- FTC Finalizes Safeguard Rules for Non-Bank Financial Institutions
- FTC Goes After Fake Reviews to Protect Consumers: But What About Protecting the Merchants?
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- FTC Hits Digital Altitude – Aspire With A Temporary Restraining Order
- FTC Is Cracking Down On Failure To Disclose Influencers’ Connections
- FTC issues 6(b) orders to Meta, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter and others seeking information on how the platforms screen for misleading ads for scams and fraudulent and counterfeit products
- FTC Issues Enforcement Policy Regarding Deceptive Practices Related to Negative Option Marketing
- FTC Issues Final Rule Amendments Related to the E-Warranty Act
- FTC Issues new Safeguards Rule Requiring Financial Institutions Provide Greater Protection of Consumer Information
- FTC Issues Rule to Deter Rampant Made in USA Fraud
- FTC Issues Warning Letters to Companies Advertising Their CBD-Infused Products as Treatments for Serious Diseases
- FTC Lauds Establishment of the Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council
- FTC Launches New Office of Technology to Bolster Agency’s Work
- FTC Obtains Court Order against Woman Who Allegedly Helped Telemarketers Pitch Phony Money-Making Opportunities and Grants
- FTC Obtains First Monetary Settlements With Celebrity Endorsers
- FTC Orders Social Media and Streaming Platforms to Outline Efforts to Combat Deceptive Advertisements
- FTC Paid Endorser Settlement Sets Framework for Advertiser Best Practices
- FTC Proposes Amendments to Strengthen and Modernize the Health Breach Notification Rule
- FTC Proposes Blanket Prohibition Preventing Facebook from Monetizing Youth Data
- FTC Provides Comment to FCC Encouraging Providers of Call-Blocking Services to Take Steps to Avoid Blocking Wanted Calls
- FTC Publishes Inflation-Adjusted Civil Penalty Amounts for 2023
- FTC Releases 2016 Annual Highlights
- FTC Releases 2021 Do Not Call Registry Data Book
- FTC Releases Annual Summary of Consumer Complaints
- FTC Reports Record Surge In eCommerce Complaints Amid Pandemic
- FTC Returns Money to Consumers Harmed in Alleged Payday Loan Scheme
- FTC Returns Money to Consumers Who Bought Purported Business Coaching Programs
- FTC Robocall Contest Rules Under Fire Again
- FTC Rules California Naturel, Inc. Misled Consumers, Violated the FTC Act
- FTC Secures Monetary Judgment in Deceptive Energy Savings Claims Case
- FTC Seeks Comment on Proposed Rule Prohibiting Impersonation Scams
- FTC Seeks to Hold Companies to GDPR Promises
- FTC Sees Explosive Robocall Growth, Driven By 'Spoofing'
- FTC Sends 45 Additional Warning Letters to Marketers Over Coronavirus Claims
- FTC Sends Warning Letters to Ten MLMs about COVID-related Product and Earnings Claims
- FTC SETS STAGE FOR NEW RULE ON FAKE REVIEWS AND DECEPTIVE ENDORSEMENTS
- FTC Settlement Bars Spam Email Marketing, Baseless Weight-Loss Claims by Diet-Pill Operation
- FTC Settles Its First Challenge Of Fake Amazon Reviews
- FTC Settles with Two Online Operators for Failing to Secure Customers’ Data
- FTC Shuts Down Websites that Sold Fake Documents
- FTC Slaps Wrist Of For-Profit College Marketer That Tricked Vets; Many Bad Wrists Remain
- FTC staff answers questions about MLMs
- FTC Staff Perspective Recaps Lead Generation Workshop
- FTC Staff Provides Annual Report to CFPB On 2022 Activities Regarding Financial Acts
- FTC Staff Reminds Influencers and Brands to Clearly Disclose Relationship
- FTC sues 1-800 Contacts over online search advertising
- FTC sues education lead generator for bogus job application process
- FTC Takes Action Against Amazon for Enrolling Consumers in Amazon Prime Without Consent and Sabotaging Their Attempts to Cancel
- FTC Takes Aggressive Swing at Tech Giant, Heightens Focus on Children’s Privacy, and Raises Additional Questions about FTC’s Authority
- FTC Targets Brand Owner Policing Search Ad Keywords
- FTC Targets False Celebrity Endorsements, Deceptive Claims
- FTC to Crack Down on Companies Taking Advantage of Gig Workers
- FTC to Hold Twitter Chat on Social Media Influencer Disclosures
- FTC to Host Workshop on “Recyclable” Claims as Part of its Ongoing Review of the Agency’s Green Guides
- FTC to Tap Covington’s Smith to Lead Consumer Protection Unit
- FTC Updates COPPA Guidance for IoT and New Consent Options
- FTC urges a ‘rethink’ of data privacy at hearing
- FTC Uses AMG Anniversary to Push for a Bipartisan 13(b) Legislative Fix in an Increasingly Partisan Environment
- FTC Votes to Update Rulemaking Procedures, Sets Stage for Stronger Deterrence of Corporate Misconduct
- FTC Warns Almost 700 Marketing Companies That They Could Face Civil Penalties if They Can’t Back Up Their Product Claims
- FTC warns of penalties for false endorsements
- FTC Wins First Jury Verdict in Telemarketing Case
- FTC Wins Some, Loses Some at Second Circuit in LeanSpa Appeal
- FTC, DOJ, CFPB and EEOC Release Joint Statement on Enforcement Against Unlawful Use of Automated Systems
- FTC, Florida Attorney General Close the Book on Robocall Ring That Pitched U.S. Consumers Worthless Credit Card Rate Reduction Programs
- FTC, Florida Attorney General Take Action Against Illegal Robocall Operation
- FTC, Law Enforcers Nationwide Announce Enforcement Sweep to Stem the Tide of Illegal Telemarketing Calls to U.S. Consumers
- FTC, New York State Charge the Marketers of Prevagen With Making Deceptive Memory, Cognitive Improvement Claims
- FTC, States Crack Down On Robocallers With 94 New Cases
- FTC, states increase pressure on Facebook on privacy
- FTC’s Latest ROSCA Lesson: ‘Simply’ Let Consumers Cancel
- FTC’s Lord & Taylor Case: In Native Advertising, Clear Disclosure is Always in Style
- FTC’s Mail Order Rule Crackdown Continues
- FTC’S New “Disclosures 101” Publication And Video Is A Shout Out To Influencers
- Funeral Home Settles FTC Charges it Violated Funeral Rule
- Funerals -Bring Transparency to the Purchase We All Have to Make
- Future of Non-Competes Up in the Air
- Gainful Employment and the AACS court decision: What it means for schools
- Gainful employment: Alternate earnings appeals due February 1
- Gainful-Employment Disclosures Delayed Again
- Gallup Faces TCPA Suit Over Purported Automated Call
- Gambling affiliates team up to establish new trade association
- Gaming and Hospitality Legal News: Volume 12, Number 3
- Gap Hit With TCPA Suit Over Autodialed Calls
- GDPR goes live this week. What happens next?
- Genie Bra, Total Pillow marketers fined, ordered to clean up their sales practices
- Give visually impaired better internet access
- Global Financial Regulators Turn Their Attention to Social Media ‘Finfluencers’
- Google AdWords Payday Loans Ban Now Goes Into Effect?
- Google is pulling addiction treatment center ads worldwide
- Google Permits Sports Betting Advertisements
- Google Search Console adds new actions to sitemap report
- Google Starts Flagging Sites With Insecure Logins To Protect Your Data
- Google To Allow Ads For CBD, Hemp Products In Some Regions
- Google to ban ads for payday loans
- Google updates financial products and services policy to restrict advertising of debt relief services
- Google-backed LendUp fined by regulators over payday lending practices
- GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling proposes overhaul of Dodd-Frank
- Govt. Wants Rehearing In Case Challenging CFPB Structure
- Grab the Rings and Go For the Gold, At Your Own Risk
- Green Coffee Adman Must Disgorge $29M In Fake Ad Suit
- Groundbreaking: Eighth Circuit Confirms TCPA Statutory Damages Were Unconstitutional
- Groups want funeral homes to post prices online
- Guess Text Recipient Seeks OK Of Deal To End TCPA Suit
- Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop brand hit with penalties for 'unsubstantiated claims'.
- Häagen-Dazs Can’t Escape TCPA Class Action for “Thank You” Text
- Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
- Here Are All The Financial Reforms That Will Disappear With Dodd-Frank
- Here are the trends likely to have the biggest impact on social media channels in 2023
- Here’s how the final GOP tax bill would hit your wallet
- Heritage College Closes Abruptly; 10 US Campuses Shuttered Mid-Term
- High Stakes for Marijuana Businesses: New Massachusetts Advertising & Marketing Regulations
- Hobby Lobby to Change Advertising Practices as Part of Settlement
- Hold That Order! FDA Freezes Menu Labeling Rules Until 2018
- HomeAdvisor, In the Matter of
- Homebuilder slammed for online review tampering
- Hooters Settles TCPA Suit For $1.3M In Gift Cards
- Hotels Consolidate In Expedia ‘Bait And Switch’ Suit
- House of Representatives Passes Consumer Review Fairness Act and Better Online Ticket Sales Acts
- House OKs Bill Loosening Bank Privacy Disclosure Rules
- House Passes Another TCPA Bill
- How Do You Regulate the Digital Health Revolution?
- How Fiduciary Rule May Censor Financial Broadcasters
- How GDPR Will Transform Digital Marketing
- How Lina Khan’s FTC Does Business – What We’ve Learned So Far
- How state attorneys general are driving tech policy
- How to balance marketing and compliance
- How To Draw The Line On Unethical Marketing
- How to Fix Higher Ed’s Accessibility Problem
- If you’re not Elon Musk: Communication and compliance for fintech CEOs
- Ill. Pharmacy Hits Medical Supply Co. With TCPA Fax Suit
- Illegal robocalls top list of ND consumer complaints last year
- Illinois Adopts Regulations Under Predatory Loan Prevention Act
- Illinois Revises Advertisement “Tag Line” Requirement
- In a One, Two, Three Punch, the FTC Issues Updated Endorsement Guides
- Indiana Blows Open Telemarketing Registration Requirements
- Indiana, Montana, and Tennessee Enact General Data Privacy Laws, Bringing the Total to Nine and Counting
- Indiana: Push to shutter for-profit-college accreditor could hit 51,000 Hoosiers
- Influencer Marketing – Three Golden Rules
- Influencers, Brand Ambassadors and Marketers Take Note – FTC Has Finalized Updates to Its Endorsement Guides
- INFORM ACT Takes Effect June 27: What Businesses Need to Know
- Insights into the FTC and the Utah Department of Commerce: Consumer Fraud and Business Symposium
- Instagram News: Shoppable, what does it really mean for affiliates?
- Interest-Based Advertising Disclosure Requirements Become More Clear—and Potentially More Burdensome
- Is the Metaverse a Giant 'Native Advertisement'? - Kattison Avenue | Issue 9
- Is This the End of Antibacterial Hand and Body Washes?
- Is Your Cosmetic Product Really Natural? Congress Pushes for Legislation to Define the Term “Natural” for Cosmetics
- Is Your Website ADA Compliant? Are You Ready for Potential New ADA Website Rules?
- It May Be Time for TikTok to Change its Ways if State AGs Have Any Say
- It’s a Full Slate for the FTC
- ITT Technical Institute to Close After Government Cut Off New Funding
- ITT Technical Institute to Close After Government Cut Off New Funding
- Jackson named new CEO of Online Lenders Alliance
- JC Penney Hit With TCPA Suit Over Autodialing
- JP Morgan Chase to Pay $3.75 Million to Settle TCPA Suit on Calls to Reassigned Phone Numbers
- Judge’s fraud ruling threatens to close Globe U, Minnesota School of Business
- Justice Department to end Obama-era ‘Operation Choke Point’
- Keep your AI claims in check
- Keeping Up with the Metaverse
- Key Trademark and Copyright Issues Every Print or Digital Media Publishing Company Should Know: In Practical Terms
- Kohl’s TCPA Lawsuit Makes a Play for Class Certification
- KTS Advertising Law Guides: Anatomy of a False Advertising Challenge
- Latest Congressional Efforts to Enact Privacy Legislation
- Lead Generation Leads to FTC Settlement
- Lead Generator Defendants in Tech-Support Scam Agree to Settlement With FTC and the State of Florida
- LeadsCouncil Reacts to Performance Marketing Company Settlement
- LeadsCouncil reveals the 2017 Lead Generation Standards Guide
- Legal challenges may impact SEC’s decision to rescind 2020 proxy firm rules
- Legal Review: Huffing and Puffing Can Blow Your House Down
- Lessons From Coinbase’s Compliance Flop
- Lifestyle Blogging, Supplement Dust, and Third Party Liability
- LuLaRoe is facing a class-action lawsuit from consultants who call it a ‘pyramid scheme’
- Macy’s Accused Of Harassing Consumers With Robocalls
- Marketing Rule Implementation – Are You Ready for November 4th?
- Marriott Hit With TCPA Suit For Unsolicited Marketing Calls
- Maryland hearing on Digital Advertising Tax highlights problems, hints at amendments
- Maryland passes digital advertising service tax
- Mastering ChatGPT: Ethical Challenges of ChatGPT
- Mastering ChatGPT: Revolutionizing Education and Compliance Training
- MediaWorks pulls ads for payday lender Pretty Penny Loans from Mai FM
- Men’s Wearhouse Agrees To Settle Robotext Suit For $1.8M
- Meta Fined €1.2 Billion in Facebook Data Privacy Case: Should US Companies Be Concerned?
- MetLife to pay $25M penalty for annuity sales violations as reported by St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Miami Man Faces $120 Million Fine for 96-Million Robocall Spree
- Milk Studios and Samsung Settle Lawsuit Out of Court
- Milwaukee Passes Ordinance Aimed at Blocking Low-Quality For-Profit Colleges
- Mini Law Lesson: What Advertisers and Agencies Need to Worry About in 2017
- Missouri Alcohol Retailers no longer Tongue-Tied by Tied-House Restrictions on Advertising
- MLM Industry ‘Income Averages’ And ‘Retail’ Sales Claims Are Part Of Deception FTC Must Halt
- Monitronics To Pay $28M To End TCPA Robocall MDL
- Monsanto Verdict Forewarns of Claims for Failure to Warn
- Much Ado About Penalties
- Multilevel Marketing Industry Rife with Misleading Income ClaimsInvestigation by Ad Watchdog TINA.org Amasses Over 3,000 Examples
- Mulvaney cuts enforcement power of CFPB office
- Mulvaney makes it official, fires CFPB advisory board members
- NAD Addresses When Companies may be Liable for Consumer Reviews
- NAD Considers Context in Puffery Argument
- National Association of Federal Credit Unions statement on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s payday lending proposal
- National coalition of attorneys general launches effort to stop embattled college accreditor
- National Consumer Protection Week
- National Consumer Protection Week is March 4 – 10, 2018
- Negotiated Rulemaking for Higher Education 2009-10
- New Delay on Borrower-Defense Rule
- New Department of Labor Independent Contractor Proposed Rule
- New FTC Acting Chair Maureen Ohlhausen Offers Insight into Consumer Protection Priorities
- New Gainful Employment Disclosures. There was an excellent webinar series hosted by Thompson Coburn LLP.
- New NAD Decision Addresses Incentivized Reviews
- New Rules for Cannabis: The Coming Wave of California False Advertising and Unfair Competition Claims
- New SEC Compliance Alert Identifies Most Common Violations by Investment Advisers Who Advertise
- New Theories of Product Liability Develop in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Increased Automation
- New Year, New Compliance Challenges: Good Reasons to Spruce up Your Compliance Program in 2023
- New York Approves Cannabis Regulations for Advertising, Packaging, and Laboratories
- New York Department of Financial Services opens investigation into Facebook advertisers
- New York legislature moves to impose new requirements on reverse mortgage industry
- Ninth Circuit Has No Due Process Concerns About ADA Compliance
- No Robot Bosses! Congress Takes on Employers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence
- Nothing new under the sun as FTC seeks to expand power over solar
- Nursing Home Chain Inks Record $145M FCA Deal With DOJ
- NY Life Insurance To Pay $3.4M To Settle TCPA Suit
- Olympic Sponsors Must Follow Strict Social Media Rules
- On Notice: Disclosing Unexpected Material Connections in Advertising
- On Notice: Unsubstantiated or Unrepresentative Testimonials
- One District Judge Says Ringless Voicemails Are TCPA ‘Calls’
- Online Ad Bans' Unintended Consequences
- Online Cryptocurrency Promotion: What Athletes, Celebrities, and Other High-Profile Individuals Need to Know
- Online Travel Agency Secretly Records Calls, Suit Says
- Operation CBDeceit Highlights Risks of CBD Health Claims
- Operators of AshleyMadison.com Settle FTC, State Charges Resulting From 2015 Data Breach that Exposed 36 Million Users’ Profile Information
- Pai Drawing Up New Robocall Regs If Carriers Don't Hustle
- Paid Online Reviews, Misleading Offer Lead to $100,000 FTC Settlement
- Paradise Lost: No Copyright for AI-Created Works
- Payday-Lending Curbs: Thumbs Down From Banks
- Penalties Increased and So Did Your Risk. How Exposed Are You?
- Pending U.S. Supreme Court Cases May Restrict FTC’s Pursuit of Monetary Relief in Privacy and Cybersecurity Matters
- Personalized Scam Emails on the Rise
- Pfizer Nabs 9th Circ. Victory In Zoloft False-Ad Suit
- Pizza Hut Franchises Can’t Shake Fla. TCPA Allegations
- Plaintiffs Attys Bank On New ADA Theory For Cash Awards
- Policing The Internet Is Critical To Protecting Online Lending Consumers
- Preparing for the SEC’s Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules
- President Trump Cuts Through More Red Tape
- President Trump Issues Executive Orders Prohibiting Transactions with the Makers of TikTok and WeChat
- Price Gouging Compliance Practice Tips: Conduct a Price Gouging Audit
- Princeton study finds very few affiliate marketers make required disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest
- Privacy FAQs: Can corporate affiliates share information for marketing purposes?
- Product Endorsements Gone Wild: Traps for Unwary Companies
- Proposed changes to Mexico’s Consumer Protection Law
- Proposed Legislation, Testimony and Proposed Rulemaking on Robocalls
- Proposed Rule on Drug Price Disclosure in TV Advertisements
- Protect Your Mark: The Role of Federal Trademark Protection in Your Marketing Strategy
- Protecting Brands on Social Media
- Protecting Your Brand and Networks During COVID-19 - Practical Steps for Brand Owners Relying on Independent Contractors
- Publishers and Ad Industry caught between rock and hard place concerning FCC ruling
- Purina, Blue Buffalo False Ad Fight Ends With Settlement
- Reading the Tea Leaves: Insights into FTC’s Areas of Focus from Chair Khan’s First Public Address
- Real-World Social Media Investigations: The 4,925 (And Counting) Tweets Of Elon Musk
- Recent CCPA Enforcement Actions Highlight the Importance of a CCPA-Compliant Privacy Policy
- Recent Developments in Telephone Consumer Protection Act Litigation
- Recidivist Robocaller Settles FTC Telemarketing Complaint
- Regulators Raise Marketplace Lending Concerns at FTC FinTech Forum
- Regulators’ Next Target? Lenders’ Digital Marketing Compliance
- Regulatory Changes May Boost Cosmetics Liability Claims
- Regulatory Compliance for Digital Marketers, Part 2: 11 Steps to Manage Risks
- Reminder: Inflation increases for maximum civil penalty amounts start August 1, 2016. Click Read More to see the Federal Register for details on each citation
- Reprioritizing Your Third-Party Risk Management Program -Implementation and Maintenance
- Reputational Damage: 3 Worst Cases & 11 Next Steps for Protecting Your Brand & Company
- Robocalls are a TCPA Violation even if made By or on Behalf of a Tax-exempt Nonprofit
- Robocalls—and complaints about robocalls—are booming
- Robocalls, Reassigned Numbers On FCC Meeting Agenda
- RobocalSites Illegally Tracked Consumers New Suits Allege
- Rooms To Go Slapped With TCPA Suit Over Marketing Calls
- Roundup of FTC Consumer Protection Matters of Interest to Digital Advertisers: March 2023
- Rutledge Reaches Settlement with Online Payday Lender
- Sales Lead Generators Fined and Barred from Violating FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule
- Sallie Mae Again Dodges Suit In Culinary School Fraud Row
- Scorecard for Accreditors (with link to full report)
- SDNY, Disagreeing With D.C. Circuit, Finds CFPB Structure Unconstitutional And Strikes Title X Of CFPA In Its Entirety
- SEC Acting Chief Accountant Comments on “The Auditor’s Responsibility for Fraud Detection”
- SEC and CFTC Continue Crackdown on Financial Firms Over Off-Channel Communications
- SEC Delays Proposed Cybersecurity Rules
- SEC Finalizes New Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Rules for Public Companies
- SEC Highlights ESG Enforcement Activity in Annual Report
- SEC Identifies Most Frequent Compliance Issues Associated with Advertising by Investment Advisers
- SEC Proposes Rash of New Rules on Cybersecurity
- SEC Proposes to Modernize the Advertising and Cash Solicitation Rules for Investment Advisers
- Second Circuit Overturns FTC Ruling That Trademark Agreements Violated Section 5
- Senate COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection Act of 2020: Balancing Privacy with the Pandemic
- Senator Durbin Statement on Department of Education Actions Against ITT Tech
- Senators Urge FTC To Examine Ad Fraud
- Showtime Hit With Suit Over Mayweather-McGregor Stream
- Silence is Not Golden: Five Metrics and a Scorecard for Measuring Speak-Up Culture
- Slaughterhouse-Five: Myth-Busting with the Commissioner at NAD 2021
- Small Agency, Big Impact
- Small Business Administration opposes payday lending rules
- Small businesses face threat from internet scams
- Small-business borrowers on verge of consumer-style protections in Calif.
- Small-Dollar Loan Proposed Rule FAQs
- So…What If the FTC Loses AMG Capital Management v. FTC?
- Social Media Giants and Copyright: Instagram’s Ninth Circuit Win Sets Precedent Against Photographers
- Social Media Update: FINRA Releases Additional Guidance on Social Networking Websites and Business Communications
- Solar Panel Lead Generation Robocallers Who Pitched Energy Savings Settle FTC Charges
- Solar Power Co. Can't Disconnect TCPA Suit Over Robocalls
- Sports Influencers and the Brands They Represent Need to Be Transparent
- Startups Shed Light on the Dark Industry of Funeral Services
- State AGs Continue to Supplant Weakened CFPB on Enforcement
- State AGs Keep Busy With Financial Services Cases
- STATE-BY-STATE RESOURCES
- Statement of FTC Chair Lina M. Khan on Announcement of Nominees to the Federal Trade Commission
- Statement of FTC Chair Lina M. Khan on the Confirmation of Alvaro Bedoya to Serve as a Commissioner
- States Moving To Fill Perceived Void In CFPB Enforcement
- Stratford Career Institute Agrees to Settle FTC Charges
- Stricter PRC online advertising regulation in response to search scandal
- Study about branded drug website risk disclosure gets FTC attention
- Study Finds Third Of Native Ads Fail To Comply, Perform Better Than Fed Guidelines
- Supreme Court Defines ATDS Under The TCPA
- Supreme Court denies POM’s request to review ruling that ads were deceptive
- Supreme Court Holds “Generic.com” Marks are Not Per Se Generic
- Supreme Court Holds That Part of CFPB’s Structure Is Unconstitutional
- Supreme Court Rejects Privacy Claim in Data Broker Case
- Supreme Court Rolls Back FTC Restitution Power
- Supreme Court Won’t Hear Domino’s Pizza Website Access Dispute
- Surprising Results for U.S. Chamber Statistics on TCPA Cases
- Susan Tompor: No, you can’t pay to remove ID from the dark web. Here’s what to do
- Sweeping New Federal Regulations for the Prepaid Industry
- T-Mobile Fined Millions for Selling Unlimited Data Plans that Weren’t Really Unlimited
- Tabcorp issued with $14,000 fine over gambling advertisements
- Tackling False Claims Being Made for COVID-19 Treatments and Products
- TCPA Defendants Down, But Not Out, With ‘Pick-Off’ Ruling
- Telecom Co. CenturyLink Hit With TCPA Suit Over Robocalls
- Telemarketer Fees to Access the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry to Increase in 2019
- Telemarketer Fees to Access the FTC’s National Do Not Call Registry to Increase in FY 2024
- Texas Joins Other States in Enacting Social Media Law for Minors
- Text Marketing Co. Slapped With TCPA Class Action
- Text Messages Part of Ongoing Business Transaction, California Court Rules
- That Was Close! The Supreme Court Declines Opportunity to Address CDA Immunity in Social Media
- The Cost of Noncompliance: LifeLock Continues to Pay
- The Definition of Autodialer Under the TCPA: A Tale of Two Courts
- The Deletion of “Legitimate Business Activity” from the FTC’s Strategic Plan
- The Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council: What it Means for Multi-Level Marketers
- The Evolving FDA Regulatory Landscape of Artificial Intelligence
- The FCC just voted to repeal its net neutrality rules, in a sweeping act of deregulation
- The FDA’s New Proposed Definition of ‘Healthy’ Is a Positive, but Pretending the Term Can Ever Be Clearly Defined Isn’t
- The Federal Election Commission Proposes Rules for Online Political Advertising
- The Federal Trade Commission Turns its Attention to Social Media Marketing of Vapes
- The Fight For Leads: Healthcare Marketing
- The Five Biggest Work From Home Cybersecurity Weaknesses Hiding Right Under your Nose LinkedIn
- The FTC Blacklists Dark Patterns
- The FTC Is Coming For the Celeb Social Media #Sponcon Racket
- The FTC Launches Its Long-Awaited Data Privacy & Security Rulemaking
- The FTC's rebellion against the judiciary
- The FTC’s Negative View of Negative Options – Are Expanded Regulations Coming?
- The FTC’s New Year’s Resolution for 2023: Healthier Health Claims
- The FTC’s Policy Statements, Reports, and Warning Letters: Why Are There So Many?
- The Future of Ad Law: A Wrap Up from the 2021 NAD Conference
- The Importance of Online Reputation for Businesses
- The Intersection of Lead Generation and Consumer Privacy
- The NAD’s First Native Ad Case Since Issuance of FTC Native Ad Guides
- The Obama Administration Could Cause the Next Big For-Profit College Collapse
- The Pandemic, Proposed Federal Privacy Regulation and the CCPA
- The Risk of Unhealthy Telemarketing Practices
- The SEC calls “technical glitch”—what happened to your comment letter?
- The SEC Reaffirms its Stance: Most Tokens are Securities
- The SEC Renews its Emphasis on Compliance with the New Marketing Rule
- The SEC’s New Investment Adviser Marketing Rule: Merging and Modernizing Advertising and Solicitation Regulation
- The Senate Voted to Make It Harder to Sue Banks
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- The Three C's To Consider Before Deploying AI Technologies: Contracts, Compliance and Culture
- The Trump Administration Is Delaying Enforcement Of For-Profit College Rules
- The U.S. Supreme Court Will Rule On FCC Interpretation Of The TCPA
- The Utah Consumer Privacy Act: Utah Becomes Fourth US State with Comprehensive Privacy Law
- Thinking About Engaging an Influencer for Your Next Promotion? Plan Ahead!
- Third CBD False Advertising Case Halted this Year Pending FDA Review
- This DTC Brand Is Offering an Influencer University to Give a Crash Course on Navigating Brands
- Three Strikes: Are Ringless Voicemail Users Now “Out” Under the TCPA?
- Tied Up with the FTC: Agency Dusts Off 20-Year-Old Settlement to Pursue Civil Penalties
- TikTok is banning content that promotes pyramid schemes and multi-level marketing companies
- TikTok Must Face the Music – Control Over Independent Contractors Creates Potential Liability For Mental Harm Caused by Content Review
- TikTok Time is Up: Montana Becomes the First U.S. State to Ban the App
- TINA.ORG PUSHES FOR NEW ENFORCEMENT TACTIC AGAINST MLM INDUSTRY
- To Text or Not to Text? That Is the Question
- Top Legal Issues Facing the Manufacturing Sector in 2023
- Top Ten List for Complying with the SEC's New Investment Adviser Marketing Rule
- Trade group promises stricter scrutiny of payday loan ads
- Trademark Modernization Act of 2020: Three New Year’s Gifts for Brand Owners
- Trademark Protection and Protected Speech In and Out of the Metaverse
- Transparency Coming to a Campaign Ad Near You!
- Tribal Lenders Ask 9th Circ. To Pause OK Of CFPB Probe
- Trump Administration Requests $0 In Funding For Consumer Protection Agency
- Trump imposes 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports
- Trump to Pay $25 Million to Settle Lawsuits Over ‘Trump U.’
- Trupanion fined $100,000 for violating marketing regulations
- Twitter Re-brands to “X” – A Lesson in Trademark Searching and Brand Power
- Twitter Survives TCPA Text Messaging Class Action
- Twitter to Allow Cannabis Advertisement
- Two Mortgage Companies Hit With Over $1M In Fines By CFPB
- U.S. Attorneys’ Offices Implement New Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy
- U.S. consumer protection watchdog's funding unconstitutional, court rules
- U.S. Department of Education Announces Thousands of New Loan Discharges
- U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Independent Contractor Rule for Federal Wage and Hour Purposes
- U.S. Department of the Treasury Confronts the Risks to the Financial Sector Associated with Cloud Computing
- U.S. Government Cuts Off New Funding for ITT Technical Institute
- U.S. HEMP ROUNDTABLE GENERAL COUNSEL WILL TESTIFY TO CONGRESS ON URGENT NEED FOR FDA TO REGULATE HEMP-DERIVED CBD
- U.S. Hemp Roundtable Makes Headway On Capitol Hill Pushing for CBD Regulation and 2023 Farm Bill Priorities
- U.S. Senate set to confirm Bedoya as FTC commissioner
- U.S. Senate Votes To Repeal Controversial Auto Loan Anti-Discrimination Rule
- U.S. State Privacy Laws in 2023: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia
- U.S. Supreme Court Leaves Open the Issue of FCC Interpretation of TCPA, For Now
- Uber Agrees to Pay $20 Million to Settle FTC Charges That it Recruited Prospective Drivers with Exaggerated Earnings Claims a reported on
- UK Gambling Commission issues compliance reminder to licence holders
- UKGC Enforcement Report highlights affiliate promotion concerns
- Ulta, Mary Kay Hit With Suits Over Virtual Try-On Tools
- Under Review: The FTC’s Focus on the Fakes
- Under Review: The FTC’s Focus on the Fakes
- United States: Compliance Focus: FTC Begins Study Of Consumer Disclosures
- Univ. Of Illinois Claims Online Retailer Infringing Its TMs
- University May Remove Online Content to Avoid Disability Law
- Update on State Privacy Laws
- Update: FCC Releases Consumer Advisory Committee’s Formal Recommendations on TCPA Proposed Rule
- Utah Considers a Cybersecurity Safe Harbor as Ransomware Runs Riot
- Vet Your Vendors to Safeguard Customer Information
- Virginia Approves New Data Privacy Law: States Take The Lead As U.S. Trends Closer To Europe’s GDPR
- Walgreen Co. to Pay $500k Fine for Misleading Ads
- Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Adequately Disclose It Paid Online Influencers to Post Gameplay Videos
- Wash. Judge Denies Twilio Sanctions Bid In TCPA Lawsuit
- Washington Legislature Resumes Consideration of the Washington Privacy Act
- We’ve proposed a rule to protect consumers from payday debt traps
- Wells Fargo To Pay $185M Fine For Fraudulent Sales Tactics
- Wells Fargo To Pay $2M In TCPA Student Loan Call Suit
- Westech College closes campuses in Fontana, Moreno Valley and Victorville
- What Agencies Need to Know About The FTC’s Influencer Guidelines
- What Can Halt Undisclosed Marketing on Social Media?
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