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Aileen Ng

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Aileen brings a wealth of experience in regulatory and licensing compliance, particularly in the financial services sector. She has advised clients on compliance obligations in mortgage lending, loan servicing, debt collection, and consumer loans. Aileen has also assisted with CFPB readiness reviews, assessing compliance risk, and evaluating compliance management systems.

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On January 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a press release announcing that accessiBe Inc. and accessiBe Ltd. (collectively, accessiBe) agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations of deceptive advertising practices in violation of the FTC Act. Specifically, the FTC’s complaint alleged that accessiBe misrepresented the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities of its website accessibility tool, accessWidget, to make websites compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The FTC further alleged that accessiBe paid for reviews on third-party websites that were formatted to appear as the opinions of impartial authors and publications and failed to disclose material connections to such online reviewers.