How Marketers Trick Kids, and Why Parents Should Worry
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
In April 2018, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Symantec Corp. for allegedly marketing its Norton-brand network security software as the best security solutions available on the market without disclosing that software with its antivirus decomposer engine suffers from a defect that exposes the entire computer operating system to security vulnerabilities. (Beyer et al v. Symantec Corp., Case No. 18-cv-2006, N.D. Cal.)
For more information about other class-action lawsuits filed against Symantec Corp. and TINA.org’s coverage of the company, click here.
Herb Weisbaum, Consumers’ Checkbook
TINA.org pulls back the covers on this company’s Made in USA marketing.
Brand partnerships worthy of a big “doom!”
Derek Kravitz, Consumer Reports
Here were some of the worst ads TINA.org investigated this year.