Episode 315 - Boeing Pays $51 Million for ITAR Violations
Nevada Attorney General (AG) Aaron D. Ford recently announced that the State of Nevada and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have filed a suit against IYOVIA. IYOVIA currently operates under the brand names IM Mastery...more
The Final Trade Regulation Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials was issued yesterday. It becomes effective 60 days after the rule is published in the Federal Register, which has not happened yet so no clock is...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that it has filed proposed orders against the owners and operators of Financial Education Services (FES), a credit repair operation accused of running a pyramid scheme and...more
The FTC has shut down Michigan-based Financial Education Services, a credit repair company that the agency says actually was a large pyramid scheme...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) push against private equity roll-ups has hit a snag. On May 14, 2024, US District Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the Southern District of Texas granted a motion to dismiss filed by Welsh, Carson,...more
On April 17th, the CFPB issued a consent order to a for-profit training school alleging numerous violations of law related to its use if income share agreements (“ISAs”). According to the Bureau, BloomTech, Inc. (“BloomTech”)...more
Insurance lead generation industry take note because an Illinois federal court recently held that Allstate violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act as a result of the actions of its third party, independent contractors...more
A new proposed rule would prohibit impersonating individuals or knowingly providing tools for unlawful impersonation — dramatically expanding the FTC’s AI enforcement capabilities. On February 15, 2024, the Federal Trade...more
The FTC recently sent five tax preparers a notice of its intention to pursue civil penalties (“Notice”) if they continue to use consumers’ data for purposes other than tax preparation (such as advertising) without first...more
Medtronic Minimed, Inc. and Minimed Distribution Corp. (“Medtronic”) were sued in a class action complaint in the Central District of California on August 30, 2023, by users of Medtronic’s InPen® system. The lawsuit alleges...more
Blaming a "data retention glitch," Microsoft has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $20 million to settle allegations that the company's Xbox gaming system has illegally collected personal information from children...more
US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more
On November 21, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District Of Tennessee granted the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC’s) ex parte motion for, among other relief, a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) to shut down an...more
In a complaint filed this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that a data broker sold geolocation data from individuals showing their movements to and from sensitive locations, including reproductive health...more
Recently the Federal Trade Commission entered into a settlement under which Patriot LED must pay civil damages of nearly $158,000, plus a penalty of $2.96 million, for its alleged false marketing of lighting products as...more
Last week the Federal Trade Commission announced a privacy and data security enforcement action against the online retail platform CafePress. The allegations in the FTC’s complaint read like a list of worst practices,...more
The Federal Government continues ramping up enforcement of data security requirements by deploying significant new enforcement theories and tools in support of cyber and data security controls required by federal law....more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release on March 15, 2022, stating that it was taking action against CafePress “over allegations that it failed to secure consumers’ sensitive personal data and covered up a...more
Our Education and Consumer Protection/FTC Teams discuss a proposed rule from the Federal Trade Commission that could cost for-profit colleges and other industries “steep penalties” for alleged violations. The new rule would...more
The FTC announced that it had sent more than 700 Notice of Penalty Offense letters to major advertisers, leading retailers, large consumer product companies and major ad agencies to put everyone on notice that fake consumer...more
The acronym “ESG” is shorthand for environmental, social, and governance concerns. In recent years, companies have used “ESG” to refer to initiatives involving climate change, responding to racial injustice, and supporting...more
AI is hungry for data. Training and testing the machine-learning tools to perform desired tasks consumes huge lakes of data. More data often means better AI....more
We’ve all heard the jokes about fine print before – the text is so small you could be agreeing to give the dealership your first-born child. However, for regulators the fine print is no laughing matter. The bottom line is...more
Twitter will pay the Federal Trade Commission up to $250 million to “resolve new charges . . . that the social media giant breached a 2011 consent decree by using data provided for security purposes to target users with...more
On February 25, 2020, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of shareholders’ securities-fraud class action against the Western Union Company (“Western Union”) and several of its current and former executive...more