The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with WW International, Inc. and Kurbo, Inc. over allegations the companies improperly registered children for the “Kurbo by WW” online weight loss management program. In pleadings filed on February 16, 2022, in federal court in the Northern District of California, the FTC claims WW and Kurbo offered
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Telecommunications Companies Forced to Turn Over Documents in Response to FTC CID
On February 14, 2022 the FTC announced that, at the agency’s request, federal courts in California ordered two Voice over Internet Protocol service providers to produce information as part of ongoing investigations by the FTC into telemarketing calls and robocalls made in violation of the Telemarketing Sales Rule. …
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FTC Puts Companies on Notice that Failure to Identify and Patch Instances of Log4j May Violate FTC Act
On January 4, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission published a blog post reminding companies that “the duty to take reasonable steps to mitigate known software vulnerabilities implicates laws including, among others, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Gramm Leach Bliley Act,” in response to Log4Shell’s public disclosure of the Log4j vulnerability.
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Fitness App Agrees to Pay $56 Million to Settle Class Action Alleging Dark Pattern Practices
On February 14, 2022, Noom Inc., a popular weight loss and fitness app, agreed to pay $56 million, and provide an additional $6 million in subscription credits to settle a putative class action in New York federal court.
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Attorneys General to Increase Enforcement Efforts on “Dark Patterns”
On January 24, 2022, a group of state attorneys general announced their commitment to ramp up enforcement work on “dark patterns” that are used to ascertain consumers’ location data.
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FTC Publishes Health Breach Notification Rule Resources
On January 21, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission published two new resources for complying with the agency’s Health Breach Notification Rule. …
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FTC Settles with Loan Application Company Over Alleged Misuse of Sensitive Personal Information
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission reached a $1.5 million settlement with loan application company ITMedia Solutions LLC over alleged violations of the FTC Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FTC alleged that ITMedia deceptively acquired and indiscriminately shared consumers’ sensitive personal information under the guise of connecting them with lenders.
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FTC Seeks Comments on Accountable Tech’s Petition for Rulemaking to Prohibit Surveillance Advertising
On December 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission sought public comment on a petition filed by Accountable Tech calling on the FTC to use its rulemaking authority to prohibit “surveillance advertising” as an “unfair method of competition.”…
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FTC Announces $2 Million Settlement with Ad Exchange Over Alleged COPPA Violations
On December 15, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission announced a $2 million settlement with OpenX Technologies in connection with alleged violations of the COPPA Rule and the FTC Act. The FTC alleged that OpenX knowingly collected personal information from children under 13 without parental consent and collected geolocation data from users who opted out of being tracked.
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CIPL Submits Comments to UK DCMS Consultation on UK Data Reform
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth submitted a response to the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport on its Consultation on Reforms to the Data Protection Regime. This blog entry reflects key takeaways from the response.
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