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Legal/Regulatory
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Live From DMA08: There’s No Dearth of DM Regulation
Many American marketers feel that they’re overly regulated. But they’re no worse off than their peers in other countries. They may even have it better. ...
The USPS' Softer Side
At least one Manhattan letter carrier apparently believes in being kind to the elderly. My wife's eccentric aunt, who resides in an assisted-living home...
Amazon Suing New York over Sales Tax
Amazon.com on Friday filed a lawsuit against New York State in an effort to overturn a recently enacted law requiring online merchants to collect state sales taxes. ...
U.S. Court Fines Canadians $5 Million in Phone Fraud Case
A federal court has fined a group of Canadian individuals and firms nearly $5 million for their roles in a fraudulent cross-border telemarketing operation, according to the Federal Trade Commission. ...
Colorado Governor Signs Anti-Spam Bill
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter last week signed an anti-spam bill into law apparently aiming to give Internet service providers and the state’s attorney general a stronger weapon in the fight against spam while staying within the confines of the preemption provisions in the Can Spam Act of 2003. ...
Online Retailer Agrees to Protect Consumer Data
An online seller of environmentally friendly clothing has agreed to clean up its act when protecting consumer data. Life Is Good Inc. signed a consent order with the Federal Trade Commission, and it was approved by the commission last week by a 4-0 vote after a 30-day comment period. ...
DMA Lobbies for Product Warning Flexibility
The Direct Marketing Association has gone on record to oppose proposed federal legislation, which if enacted would require catalog and Internet marketers to include safety hazard warnings adjacent to descriptions of products intended for children. ...
FTC Revisits Its Green Marketing Guidelines
The Federal Trade Commission will reconsider its green marketing and packaging guidelines, the commission said last week. They were last revised in 1998. ...
Search Engines Must Comply with EU Privacy Rules, Regulators Say
Search engines must comply with European privacy regulations even if they aren’t based there, a group of regulators said last week....
Judge Orders Arrest of Credit Processor Rubin
A federal judge has ordered the arrest of credit card processor Ira N. Rubin for failing to show up at a hearing on claims that he had violated court orders issued against him for his role in aiding a credit card scam. ...
Identity Theft Tops FTC Consumer Complaints in 2007
Identity theft topped the Federal Trade Commission’s top consumer complaint list in 2007....
FTC Sues Diet Marketers
The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit against four companies and one individual, charging them with making false claims for weight loss products. ...
FTC to Review Guidelines for 'Green' Advertising
The Federal Trade Commission will begin a regulatory review of its environmental marketing guidelines on Jan. 8 at a meeting in Washington, DC....
FTC Seeks Comments on Possible MO Rule Renewal/Expansion
The Federal Trade Commission has begun seeking comments on whether to retain and/or expand its mail order rule. ...
Canada High Court Upholds Tobacco DM Advertising
The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a decade-old federal law setting strict limits on advertising by tobacco companies but does allow advertising through direct mail, according to wire service reports. ...
FTC Tightens ID Theft Regs
Identity theft? Ho-hum. Woe to you, friend, if that's your attitude. Data security may be dead in Congress this year, but the Federal Trade Commission...
Live From DMA06: The FTC Tightens Up ID Theft Rules
Identity theft? Ho-hum. Woe to you, friend, if that's your attitude. Data security may be dead in Congress this year, but the Federal Trade Commission is on the case, and that could mean trouble for lax companies....
Privacy Bill a Whopper
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has introduced a far-reaching privacy bill that could spell deep trouble for any business that uses so-called personally...
Xanga.com to Pay $1 Million for Violating COPPA: FTC
Social networking Web site Xanga.com, and its principals, Marc Ginsburg and John Hiler, will pay a $1 million civil penalty for allegedly violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. ...
House GOPers Step Back From MO Tax Bill
House Republicans have backed off from a bill prohibiting states from taxing mail order and other companies that do business in their states without local employees or offices, according to wire service reports....
DMA to Phase Out Its Telephone Preference Service
The Telephone Preference Service is getting cut off. The Direct Marketing Association announced Thursday that it would phase out the service “as it currently exists.” ...
Founders of Bankrupt Telecom Firm Settle FTC Charges
The founders of a telecommunications firm that allegedly defrauded small businesses have settled Federal Trade Commission charges, ending a complicated two-year case. ...
Texas Hits Spammers for $10 Million
Self-proclaimed reformed spammer Ryan Pitylak and his former partners have agreed to pay $2.5 million plus attorney fees to settle a lawsuit bought by the state of Texas while the businesses they ran have been ordered by a judge to pay $7.5 million, according to the Texas attorney general. ...
Canadian Telemarketers Hit With Criminal Charges
A Canadian telemarketing operation that allegedly defrauded businesses on both sides of the U.S. border is now in trouble on both sides of that border. ...
Fax Fight
Does your company send advertising faxes? Make one small mistake and you could be sued under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Most marketers...
