By: Linda L. Goodman The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and the Office of the Arkansas Attorney General yesterday filed a proposed stipulated judgment and settlement with Andrew Gamber; Voyager Financial Group, LLC; BAIC, Inc.; and SoBell Corp. The companies, … Continued
By: Linda L. Goodman An operator of Email Management Service, Unrollme Inc., thought their policy was accurate until the FTC alleged that it deceived consumers by sharing the consumers private data and analytics with its parent company. As a result, … Continued
By: Linda L. Goodman After a short review period after being passed by the legislature, the Governor of New York signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (“SHIELD Act”) into law yesterday. The SHIELD Act broadens the … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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. … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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. … Continued