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The FTC Enhances Telemarketing Sales Rule

The FTC has announced two significant developments relating to the Telemarketing Sales Rule (“TSR”). First, the FTC has introduced a final rule that extends the TSR’s coverage to include business-to-business telemarketing calls, previously exempted under the TSR’s original framework. The final rule also introduces a definition for “previous donor” to clarify that charity robocalls are…

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10 AGs, FTC Claim Women’s Cancer Fund Misappropriated Donor Funds

A bipartisan coalition of 10 AGs has joined the FTC in filing a lawsuit against Cancer Recovery Foundation International, Inc., doing business as the Women’s Cancer Fund, and its operator (collectively, the “Women’s Cancer Fund”) alleging that the charity and its operator misappropriated donor funds for personal and for-profit use, in violation of the FTC…

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CFPB Tells Large Credit Card Issuers to Get in Line With TILA

The CFPB issued a final rule to address late fees charged by “larger card issuers”—credit card issuers that together with their affiliates have one million or more open credit card accounts—to ensure compliance with the Truth in Lending Act’s (TILA) reasonable fee requirements. The final rule adopts a late fee safe harbor threshold of $8,…

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Montana AG Warns Google Over Potential Bias in Its AI System

Montana AG Austin Knudsen sent a letter to Google LLC warning it that its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) system may violate state consumer protection and human rights laws. In the letter, AG Knudsen voices concerns that Gemini may prioritize providing outputs in line with Google’s political biases, manipulating or withholding information from consumers, and that…

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Indiana AG Sues Apria Healthcare for Data Breach(ing HIPAA Duties)

Indiana AG Todd Rokita sued home healthcare equipment and services provider Apria Healthcare, LLC for allegedly failing to investigate and inform consumers regarding data breaches beginning in 2019 in violation of state data security and consumer protection laws and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules. According to the complaint, Apria allegedly failed to…

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