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On January 18, Lukeroy Rose, owner of Phoenix-based Rose Marketing LLC, pled guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to charges of theft, unlawful telephone solicitations, and conspiracy to commit theft.  Rose was arrested in December 2016 pursuant to the newly amended Arizona Telephone Solicitations statute, Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 44-1277, which makes it a Class …

On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against D-Link Corporation, a Taiwanese corporation, and D-Link Systems, Inc., a California corporation and a subsidiary of D-Link Corporation.  D-Link sells Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices and software to support such devices.  Specifically, D-Link sells routers which transfer data packets along a network and which …

On December 19, 2016, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered a Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction and Monetary Judgment to resolve all matters in dispute in the case of Federal Trade Commission and State of Florida v. Inbound Call Experts, LLC et al. after the parties reached a …

On January 10, the FTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Credit Bureau Center LLC and three individuals for allegedly luring consumers into signing up for credit monitoring services using fake rental property ads and offers of free credit reports.

The complaint alleged that all the…

On January 12, the FTC held its second annual PrivacyCon conference in Washington.  The day-long event featured presentations and exhibits by a number of scholars and privacy experts offering their research on consumer privacy and security in the digital age. 

Chairwoman Edith Ramirez opened PrivacyCon by noting the myriad ways that consumer data is collected, …

An operator of a mortgage relief scam and an attorney agreed to court orders banning them from the debt relief business in order to resolve allegations brought by the FTC that they swindled millions of dollars from financially distressed homeowners.

According to the FTC’s Complaint, in the scheme, Damian Kutzner and four attorneys operating…

Approximately a year after filing an amended complaint and three months after settling with a group of co-defendants, the Federal Trade Commission and Florida Attorney General have filed papers seeking entry of agreed permanent injunctions and monetary judgments against a second group of co-defendants involved in an alleged nationwide debt relief telemarketing scam.  The…

The FTC issued a new video and updated guide for businesses on how to respond to a data breach.  The three steps identified in the guide and discussed in the video are:

  1. Secure your operations – This step focuses on preventing further attacks due to the same vulnerabilities.
  • Mobilize your breach response team
  • Engage a

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On November 21, the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Federal Automated Vehicles Policy.  The Director opened the comment with a brief review of the FTC’s focus on privacy and security efforts related to connected devices and the Internet of …

The Federal Trade Commission has begun mailing checks totaling over $830,000 to almost 3,500 consumers who fell victim to a telemarketing debt collection scheme targeting Spanish-speaking consumers for payment of bogus debts.  Centro Natural Corp, Sumore LLC, and several individuals operated a telemarketing debt collection scam that used international callers who claimed to be government …