When Privacy Concerns and Deceptive Marketing Issues Intersect
Why TINA.org supports FTC’s proposed changes to COPPA Rule but pushes for more.
A false advertising class-action lawsuit was filed against Arizona Canning Company and Stater Bros. Markets in October 2016 (and transferred to federal court in November 2016). According to the complaint, the company deceives consumers by packaging Sun Vista whole bean products in opaque containers with labels showing images of beans with little to no water when the containers have a significant amount of water. (Plaintiffs filed an amended complaint in February 2018.) (Beckman et al v. Arizona Canning Company, LLC, Stater Bros. Markets, and Does 1-10, Case No. 16-cv-2792, S.D. Cal.)
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Why TINA.org supports FTC’s proposed changes to COPPA Rule but pushes for more.
FTC alleges company pressures consumers into overpaying for its tax filing software.
Bogus report leads to unapproved health claims.
Lawsuits take aim at so-called non-disparagement clauses.
The consumer advocacy organization truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) has published the results of a yearslong investigation into the multilevel marketing (MLM) industry that found widespread use of deceptive income claims to promote…