Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Inc., the provider of leading office management software for dental practices, has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges for allegedly misrepresenting the advertised level of encryption it provided to protect patient data.
Schein sold management software, known as Dentrix G5, to dental practices. Dentists used Dentrix G5
“The era of big data has arrived,” begins the Federal Trade Commission’s report released on January 6, entitled “Big Data: A Tool for Inclusion or Exclusion? Understanding the Issues.” The report demonstrates that the FTC and industry will continue to draw lines on the use of data analytics into 2016.
The phrase “big data,” according
On January 7, the Federal Trade Commission announced four new enforcement actions targeting debt collectors and continuing the FTC’s nationwide crackdown of illegal debt collection tactics. The cases are part of Operation Collection Protection, a coordinated federal-state enforcement initiative targeting deceptive and abusive debt collection practices. Over the past year, 130 actions have been brought
Despite objections by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, daily fantasy sports (sometimes referred to as “DFS”) fans in New York were able to play using the sites FanDuel and DraftKings over the holidays. This “gift” came in the form of a one-line handwritten order from the First Department of the New
On December 22, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement of a pending lawsuit brought under the Telemarketing Sales Rule against participants in an alleged credit card “laundering” scheme. According to the FTC’s complaint, PayBasics, Todd Hatch, and Jimmy Shin took an active role in helping the defendants behind the Tax Club fraud to open
The Federal Trade Commission has settled claims against Oracle that it deceived consumers about security updates to Oracle’s Java Platform, Standard Edition software (Java SE). Java SE, which is used for interactive web browsing, is installed on more than 850 million personal computers.
In its complaint, the FTC alleged that Oracle has known of
The Supreme Court’s latest arbitration decision is but the latest in a long line of decisions enforcing the strong federal policy enforcing arbitration clauses in consumer contracts. In DirecTV v. Imburgia, a 6-3 decision, Justice Breyer held that the Federal Arbitration Act preempts state laws, in this instance California’s, that invalidate arbitration clauses if
The Federal Trade Commission today announced that LifeLock has agreed to pay $100 million to settle charges that it had violated the terms of a 2010 order by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, requiring LifeLock to secure customer data and change its advertising practices.
The FTC alleged, among other
We have previously reported on ACA International’s appeal from the Federal Communications Commission’s July 2015 Order interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, including the joint brief recently filed by petitioners on November 25.
In addition to that joint brief,
On December 11, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving Ohio’s “special counsel” law under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”), 15 U.S.C. § 1692-1692p, a case that is likely to have much wider implications involving the standard for determining whether a debt-collection method is “false, deceptive, or misleading.”
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