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Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016
On December 14, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016 . The BOTS Act prohibits circumventing a website’s security measures to acquire event tickets. It also restricts the…
Vemma Settles Ongoing Litigation with FTC over Pyramid Charges
The FTC announced today that it had settled charges with multi-level marketer and seller of health and wellness drinks Vemma over allegations that it operated a pyramid scheme. The FTC initially filed the action in…
Groups Renew Call for FTC to Act on Influencer Campaigns
In September, we noted that four groups – Public Citizen, Commercial Alert, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, and the Center for Digital Democracy – had sent a joint letter to FTC encouraging the agency…
Do You Venmo? FTC Spotlight on Peer-to-Peer Payments and Crowdfunding
The FTC recently examined peer-to-peer (P2P) payment systems and crowdfunding in the second forum of its FinTech series. P2P payment systems are online services that allow consumers to share money electronically. These…
What to Expect from the FTC
Our colleague Bill MacLeod, chair of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, and former director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, penned the following blog post on what we might expect at…