The Green Guides help marketers avoid making environmental marketing claims that are unfair or deceptive under Section 5 of the FTC Act. Digital advertisers should also know that the FTC has aggressively been issuing Notices of Penalty Offenses to seek civil penalties.
Security camera company Ring, which Amazon acquired in 2018, has agreed to a $5.8 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused it of privacy violations linked to its [.]
BetterHelp is facing a proposed class action lawsuit in Canada over the alleged sale of users' data. The affordable online counselling platform is accused of profiting from the sale of "sensitive personal and health information" to advertisers like Facebook, Snapchat and Pinterest. The allegations follow an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which ordered in March that the therapy service pay $7.8M "for deceiving consumers after promising to keep sensitive personal data private."
Major U.S. education technology firm Chegg ordered by Federal Trade Commission to beef up data security practices after being impacted by four data breaches that compromised over 40 million users, reports EdScoop.