1/14/2025 10:50:16 AM Oregon AG Issues AI Guidance Highlighting Key Consumer Protection Risks for Companies By Hannah Taylor On December 24, 2024, the Oregon Attorney General's Office issued guidance detailing how existing state laws apply to businesses...
12/6/2024 6:14:40 PM Face Value: AI and Facial Recognition Technology Claims Draw FTC Scrutiny By Andrew Folks On December 3, 2024, the FTC took action against IntelliVision Technologies Corp., a developer of AI-powered facial recognition software...
10/10/2024 8:34:43 PM FTC Gets Record Penalty in CAN-SPAM Enforcement Action By Terri Seligman Remember my 2023 blog post about a CAN-SPAM enforcement action? (No?!?) I noted the rarity of such actions and remarked that the FTC’s...
8/7/2024 10:19:31 PM FTC Announces Inquiry Into “Surveillance Pricing” By Terri Seligman In a recent press release, the FTC announced that it has issued orders to companies that offer “surveillance pricing products and...
7/18/2024 4:53:08 PM AI-Powered Detection App Gets FTC Scrutiny By Terri Seligman The FTC recently posted its Closing Letter to HeHealth, Inc., which provides an AI-powered application, Calmara, for the detection of...
7/15/2024 1:40:32 PM FTC Issues Warnings on Warranty Practices By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission announced that it sent warning letters to several companies about their warranty practices, outlining...
5/21/2024 3:40:59 PM Major Wireless Carriers To Pay $10.25 Million To Settle Deceptive Advertising Claims By Kate Patton Earlier this month, several state attorneys general announced that they secured a $10.25 million settlement with the country’s largest...
5/1/2024 6:15:42 PM FTC Pursues Bill Payment Company Over Alleged Dark Patterns, Illegal Junk Fees and ROSCA Violations By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission took action under the FTC Act, the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...
1/19/2024 12:14:12 AM FTC Hearing Participants Voice Concerns with Proposed Negative Option Rule By Kate Patton During a virtual informal hearing on January 16, several organizations presented their concerns—both procedural and substantive—with the...
12/10/2023 2:37:58 PM FTC Sends Batch of Warning Letters to Halt Transmission of Illegal Robocalls By Kate Patton In an effort to stop illegal robocalls, a majority of which data show originate from overseas, the Federal Trade Commission has recently...
12/5/2023 12:14:11 AM FTC to Host Informal Hearing on Proposed Amendments to Negative Option Rule By Kate Patton The Federal Trade Commission announced that it will hold a virtual informal hearing on January 16, 2024, on its proposed amendments to...
9/22/2023 7:51:34 PM “Don’t wait to get a CID from the FTC,” Levine Warns Advertisers at NAD Conference By Kate Patton At the National Advertising Division’s annual conference this week in Philadelphia, Samuel Levine, Director of the Federal Trade...
9/15/2023 6:12:26 PM The Cat’s Out of the Bag: SEC’s Theory Impacts NFT Industry By Zach Lewis In recent weeks, the SEC announced two separate enforcement actions against creators of non-fungible token (NFT) projects, alleging that...
8/26/2023 9:30:59 PM FTC Issues Guidance for Online Sellers on INFORM Consumers Act By Kate Patton Two months after the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (the “INFORM Consumers Act”)...
7/27/2023 11:14:38 PM A Sober Lesson for Supplement Marketer Using Deceptive Claims and Fake Endorsements By Kate Patton Challenging what read like egregious examples from its recently updated Endorsement Guides, the Federal Trade Commission took action...
6/29/2023 10:17:53 PM Publishers Clearing House Agrees to Pay $18.5 Million to Consumers and Overhaul Sweepstakes Entry Process By Kate Patton Kelly O'Donnell Another day, another "dark patterns" lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission — this time, in the sweepstakes arena. In order to settle...