Category: U.S. Civil Service — Independent Agencies — Federal Trade Commission

Complaint alleges telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information with third-party advertising platforms despite promising patient privacy The Federal Trade Commission, joined by Utah and California, by and through Los Angeles County Counsel, today sued Hims & Hers alleging that the telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information about medical conditions with third-party advertising platforms…

Proposed order settling FTC allegations will require company and its executives to pay $300,000 and ban them from using unlawful tactics to bypass ticket purchase limits Ticket broker Elite Events and its operators will pay $300,000 in civil penalties to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that the firm purchased millions of dollars’ worth of tickets…

The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $672,000 to consumers deceived by the operator of Trend Deploy, Frank Romero. The FTC is mailing 9,419 checks to affected consumers, who should cash their checks within 90 days, as indicated on the check.View Press Release

Dennise Merdjanian, an operator of a student loan debt forgiveness scheme, will be permanently banned from the debt relief industry and telemarketing under a proposed order resolving the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that she and other operators took more than $45.9 million from consumers as part of their illegal student loan debt relief operatioView Press Release

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with Vanilla Chip LLC—which does business as TruHeight—and its two principals requiring them to pay $750,000, while barring them from making false or unsupported health claims and using fake or incentivized consumer reviews.View Press Release

Proposed orders also ban defendants from marketing or selling products or services that can be used to deposit or withdraw assets Alexander Mashinsky, the former CEO of cryptocurrency […]