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The court-appointed Consumer Privacy Ombudsman (CPO) in the 23andMe bankruptcy last month released a 200-plus-page report assessing the privacy implications of the proposed sale of 23andMe’s assets as part of its Chapter 11...more
FTC Sends Warning Letters Regarding Potential Noncompliance With “Made in USA” Requirements. On July 8, the FTC sent letters to a flagpole retailer, footwear maker, football equipment company, and personal care products...more
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson testified before the House Appropriations Committee’s Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on May 15 to discuss the agency’s consumer protection and competition efforts and...more
Actual deception, substantial injury (including through AI), kids and teens, financial institutions and employees. Those are the key enforcement priorities of the Federal Trade Commission when it comes to data privacy...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and at the state level. CFPB activity continues to be...more
In a March 10 blog post, the new Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to enforcing consumer protection laws through Civil Investigation Demands (CIDs)....more
As contemplated in December 2024, the Federal Trade Commission’s operations during the first two months under the second Trump Administration have been chaotic. Unsurprisingly, the policy focus appears to be de-regulation...more
The FTC secured a temporary restraining order and other relief against Click Profit, LLC and related entities arising from allegations that the companies operate an e-commerce business opportunity scheme in violation of...more
On March 7, 2025, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (NY AG) published an Assurance of Discontinuance (Assurance) settling claims against Saturn Technologies, Inc. (company), a developer of a social media app...more
What’s going on with Michigan’s consumer protection statute? How does the Michigan Attorney General’s Office operate? And what are its enforcement priorities?...more
Generative AI continued to be a hot topic for privacy-related litigation in 2024. In the US, companies using and deploying this technology saw themselves subject to lawsuits under various state and federal theories of...more
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Seek Capital and its founder and CEO, Roy Ferman, barring the company from making false claims and forbidding the company from contacting any consumers whose...more
Takeaway: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller once famously said, “There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked and those that will be.” These days cyberattacks seem to happen all the time. And when a...more
“Dark patterns” have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory scrutiny. Yet the phrase is never used in business. No business designs a website, mobile app, or business process with the instruction, “let’s...more
For years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have actively policed digital asset markets, bringing enforcement actions based on alleged failure to register products...more
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff announced a Request for Information (RFI) on February 20 seeking public comments on “how consumers may have been harmed by technology platforms that limited their ability to share ideas or...more
In the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) first action related to connected vehicle data, the agency announced that it reached a settlement with General Motors (“GM”) over GM’s unauthorized collection, use, and sale of driver...more
Our Consumer Protection/FTC and Antitrust Teams highlight a spate of activity by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its final days under the leadership of Lina Khan and offers a preview of what’s to come with Andrew...more
For years, one of the world’s most popular online video games, Fortnite, profited from in-game purchases (or “microtransactions”) that, according to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), were unlawful and deceptive. Although...more
On January 17, 2025, the staff at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released their first results from the FTC’s Surveillance Pricing market study. The FTC staff reports, including both a “staff perspective” and an “issue...more
In the two weeks before Inauguration, both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a flurry of rulemaking developments, policy announcements, and enforcement filings and...more
Singapore-based Chinese video game developer Cognosphere, dba HoYoverse, known for “Genshin Impact,” a role-playing game involving collectible characters with unique fighting skills, has agreed to pay $20 million to settle...more
In its continued concentration on the collection and use of consumers’ precise geolocation, on January 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled with General Motors (GM) over allegations that it collected, used,...more