By:  Linda L. Goodman Be Prepared for an FTC Crackdown on Social Media Influencer Review Marketing! Your product is getting great reviews! Awesome! Unless, of course, you forgot to mention that you are paying or sharing the revenue with the […]

By: Linda L. Goodman The deadline for payday lenders to begin complying with the underwriting requirements of the new payday rule has been extended by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) so that the agency can begin a reconsideration process […]

By: Linda L. Goodman Last week, the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, signed the Act to Protect the Privacy of Online Consumer Information into law. Now that the law has been signed, it will become effective on July 1, 2020. […]

By: Linda L. Goodman The State of Maine has taken a huge step to protect consumers and their data last week when they passed a bill that would ban internet providers from using or selling consumer browsing history and other […]

By: Linda L. Goodman Last month, three consumers filed a lawsuit against Apple, Inc., alleging that Apple, Inc. violated consumers’ privacy rights and disregarded its legal responsibility by systematically disclosing the personal listening information of iTunes users. The information that […]

By: Linda L. Goodman In a case that dates back to 2014, the FDIC announced that they have settled a D.C. federal court lawsuit by payday lenders that accused banking agencies of illegally pressuring banks to cut ties with payday […]

By: Linda L. Goodman At a recent compliance conference, a major topic of discussion was the practice of the purchase of consumer data that has been collected through online scams such as bogus product pages, fake news pages, banners, etc. […]

By: Linda L. Goodman At a recent Congressional hearing with the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee, all five commissioners of the FTC testified that we need data privacy legislation, the power to levy fines, and […]

By: Linda L. Goodman Did you know that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) isn’t only for prohibitions on robocalls? Autodialed text messages are also covered under the TCPA’s scope. There are important requirements for managing and monitoring a text […]

By: Linda L. Goodman The California Senate last week voted 36-0 to approve the A.B. 147 legislation that would supersede a California regulation for remote sellers that took effect last week. This new bill, A.B. 147, establishes a $500,000 threshold […]