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United States of America - FTC charges supplement marketer with hijacking ratings and reviews on Amazon.com and using them to deceive consumers
02/17/2023

The Federal Trade Commission took action against a marketer of vitamins and other supplements called The Bountiful Company (Bountiful) for abusing a feature of Amazon.com to deceive consumers into thinking that its newly introduced supplements…

European Union - Google commits to give consumers clearer and more accurate information to comply with EU rules
01/27/2023

Have you ever struggled to understand whether you were buying directly from Google or from a different brand, or had difficulty finding information about final costs? In order to further align its practices with EU law - mainly on lack of…

United States of America - Fortnite video game maker Epic Games to pay more than half a billion US dollars over FTC allegations of privacy violations and unwanted charges
12/20/2022

Epic will pay a US$275 million penalty for violating children’s privacy law, change default privacy settings, and pay US$245 million in refunds for tricking users into making unwanted charges. The Federal Trade Commission has secured…

European Union - Consumer Protection: 43% of websites in breach of EU rules during Black Friday
12/20/2022

Today, the European Commission and 13 national consumer protection authorities released the results of a…

Australia - Uber to pay AU$21m for misleading representations about Uber Taxi fares and cancellation fees
12/07/2022

The Federal Court of Australia has ordered ridesharing platform Uber to pay a penalty of AU$21 million after Uber admitted it had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations to consumers in its app and…

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