Ad Law Access

Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

Next Up – Earnings Claims: Notice of Penalty Offenses Sent to 1,100 Direct Selling Companies and Others in the Gig Economy

In its third recent Penalty Offense Authority notice, the FTC today notified more than 1,100 companies offering “money-making opportunities” that it intends to pursue civil penalties of up to $43,792 per violation for…

Flexing the Agency’s Muscles: What FTC Notice of Penalty Offenses Really Means for Advertisers

Over the last ten days, 700 companies and 70 for-profit colleges received notice of the FTC’s intent to pursue civil penalties under Section 5(m)(1)(b), if these companies and colleges engage in certain conduct…

California Updates its Automatic Renewal Law

In 2017, California updated its automatic renewal law to create some of the strictest requirements in the country. Now, just four years later, the Governor Newsom signed a new law that will impose even stricter…

CPRA Update: California Legislature Makes Technical Changes to CPRA

Last week, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 694, which makes a few technical changes to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). The relevant changes to the CPRA are summarized below. As…

FTC Blankets Companies With Warning Letters Over Endorsements and Reviews

As we have noted in earlier posts, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s holding that Section 13(b) of the FTC Act does not allow for monetary restitution, the Federal Trade Commission has been attempting to creatively…