Join Troutman Sanders Partners Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., Alan D. Wingfield and Mary C. Zinsner for a complimentary webinar to discuss likely impact points for the banking and financial services industry when President-Elect Donald Trump begins his administration in January 2017.
Specific topics of discussion include the potential repeal in whole or part of the
On May 24, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission will host an all-day conference in Washington, D.C., examining the state of identity theft and how it may evolve in the future. The conference, titled “Planning for the Future,” corresponds to the ten-year anniversary of the creation of the Identity Theft Task Force, which is co-chaired by
The FTC has filed a complaint and secured a temporary injunction against five companies and their owners, alleging use of deceptive practices to trick consumers into purchasing unneeded technology services for their computers.
As detailed in the complaint, the FTC alleges that the scheme worked as follows: a pop-up ad would appear on a consumer’s
On December 14, the FTC, along with a coalition of 13 states and the District of Columbia, entered into a settlement agreement with Ashley Madison over allegations that the online dating site deceived consumers and failed to protect 36 million users’ account and profile information in relation to a massive July 2015 data breach.
We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partner Ron Raether will be a featured speaker at the American Conference Institute’s 20th Advanced Global Legal and Compliance Forum on Privacy & Security of Consumer and Employee Information, taking place October 13-14 in San Francisco.
Ron will participate on a panel entitled “Big Data in
On September 27, LendUp, an online payday lending company based in San Francisco, entered into a Consent Order with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the California Department of Business Oversight over allegations that LendUp violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act and Regulation Z of the Truth In Lending Act by
Nine months after filing an amended complaint, the FTC and Florida Attorney General have filed papers seeking entry of agreed permanent injunctions and monetary judgments against numerous defendants involved in an alleged nationwide debt relief telemarketing scam. The proposed settlements resolve allegations that the defendants violated the FTC Act, the Telemarketing Act, the Telemarketing
The FTC has approved a final settlement against Practice Fusion, Inc., a company that describes itself as the “number one cloud-based electronic health record platform for doctors and patients.” The FTC had alleged that Practice Fusion failed to adequately disclose that patient responses to an online healthcare provider satisfaction survey would be published on Practice
The FTC announced that it has reached a settlement with Herbalife that includes a $200 million payment to compensate consumers. In addition to the payment, the settlement agreement has an unusual provision requiring a complete restructuring of Herbalife’s existing business model.
In its complaint against the company, the FTC alleges that Herbalife claimed that people
On July 14, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had entered into a final consent order with Ohio auto dealers Progressive Chevrolet Company and Progressive Motors Inc. (collectively, the “Progressive Dealers”), which the FTC had “charged with deceiving consumers by using advertising that touted low monthly car lease payments and down payments but failed