Judging from the ten warning letters mailed to data brokers this week and the six we detailed last month, it is clear that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) very seriously. These warning letters come on the heels of the FTC’s decision in December of last year to […]
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A case the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has been investigating for more than two (2) years was settled last month. For several years, the FTC received numerous complaints that prepaid phone cards sold by DR Phone Communications, Inc., also doing business as drphonecom.com (“DR Phone”), contained far fewer long distance phone minutes than were advertised.
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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently entered a judgment against a telemarketing corporation, NHS Systems, Inc., and five principals, for violating the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act and associated enforcement regulations, laid out in the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). The defendants were accused of operating a telemarketing campaign, in
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FTC Cramming Charges As part of the increased regulatory focus on the mobile marketing space, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought suit against Wise Media, LLC, Brian M. Buckley and William J. Deloney, alleging mobile telephone bill “cramming” in violation of the FTC Act and other applicable laws. “Cramming” is the act of placing unauthorized
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We have previously discussed on this blog what to do when the state attorney general contacts you. While the stakes are typically higher and the cases usually larger when the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) contacts you, many of the same strategies must be employed, immediately, in order to protect your business and yourself and to
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released a staff report focusing on a topic that has been in the spotlight for the better part of a decade: mobile payments, (i.e. the payment for goods/services executed through the operation of a mobile device). The FTC conducted a survey of 1,000 of the most successful executives in
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To complement our recent post regarding attorney general proceedings, we felt it would be helpful to our readers if we commented on another regulating body that affects the marketing and advertising spaces: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). An Overview of the FTC The FTC is an independent agency established in 1914 to, among other things,
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In the regulatory arena, 2013 has already been a rocky year for many industries, with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and various state Attorneys General aggressively investigating companies for allegedly engaging in unfair and deceptive business practices. Unsolicited text message campaigns, electronic cigarettes, online lending, payment processing, supplements/pharmaceuticals, data collection relating to online dating and
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