Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

The FTC’s complaint alleges that since 2011, Google violated the FTC Act’s prohibition on unfair commercial practices by billing consumers for in-app charges made by children without the authorization of the account holder. Google agreed to pay a minimum of $19 million to provide refunds to consumers.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 14, 2014

plaintiff’s October 2011 class action complaint alleged that K-Mart willfully violated the FCRA prior to obtaining consumer reports and prior to taking adverse actions against the class. The case settled on November 12, 2013, when defendants agreed to pay $18.6 K-Mart Corp., 11-cv-00697 (E.D. Singleton v. 2d — (D.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2014

And 12 months from now, everyone will be tweeting about how Twitter has run out of ideas. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Sound familiar, Facebook? Now this isn’t what I hope for the company to do, but I already wrote up my great desire for Twitter last year. This won’t last forever. Related: Predictions 2013.

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