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FTC Issues Opinion On Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found on Friday (Dec. The FTC also found that the firm lied about how it was participating in the Privacy Shield framework between the EU and the U.S., The FTC also found that the firm lied about how it was participating in the Privacy Shield framework between the EU and the U.S.,

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MoneyGram To Settle With FTC For $125M

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday (Nov. According to the FTC , the company violated the settlement struck in 2012 that stemmed from charges that the company had aided and abetted wire fraud. This announcement came separately on Thursday. and Canada. “The

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FTC Puts The Smackdown On Fake Online Reviews

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Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which was pretty busy this week on issues related to digital commerce and payments. The FTC said it brought forward “its first case challenging a marketer’s use of fake paid reviews on an independent retail website.”. FTC Penalty. The case involves “Cure Encapsulations, Inc. Power of Reviews.

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Valeant Peels Off Skincare Lines To L’Oréal For $1.3B

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Drug company Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is shedding four of its brands — three skincare and one cancer treatment business — and experts say it’s good money, considering what the company original bought those brands for. The FTC ordered Valeant to divest Paragon in order to settle those charges.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The DOJ Finding. Those effects, however, were short-lived.

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Hard Knocks Edition: MCX, EMV And Square

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2012 with the intention of creating a mobile-only, merchant-owned payments scheme that ran over ACH rails. 2013 that MCX was doomed from the start and would ultimately be more expensive to support than the members originally anticipated. MCX’s owner-members remain committed to our future.” Durbin was writing last week.

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Deep Dive: GDRP And The EU’s New Rules Of Data Handling

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That effort kicked off in 2012, when the European Commission first began taking steps to advance data protections in the EU. In addition to Zuckerberg’s grilling on Capitol Hill , the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) also recently launched an investigation into Facebook. The Need for Greater GDPR Compliance.

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