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Tweens Obsessed With Skin Care Drive Brands to Say: Don’t Buy Our Stuff
Bloomberg
In Online Advertising Arena, Artificial Intelligence Aids And Abets Fake Reviews, False Claims
HBW Insight
EC Says European Private Data Can Flow to Compliant US Companies
Law360 (paywall)
How Advertising Self-Regulation Can Provide Guidance on Health-Related Product Claims
Natural Products Insider
Regulators Have Their Eye On The Dark Art Of Dark Patterns
AdExchanger
Companies are selling us more stuff by telling us it's 'sustainable'
Business INSIDER
Exploring sustainable clothing for kids heading back to school
Good Morning America
In Two Fast-Track SWIFT Cases, National Advertising Division Recommends CoStar Discontinue Certain Claims for Homes.com Website
New York, NY – July 9, 2024 – In two Fast-Track SWIFT challenges brought by Move, Inc., the National Advertising Division recommended CoStar Group discontinue certain claims relating to the volume of traffic to CoStar’s website, Homes.com.
National Advertising Division Finds Certain Claims for Dawn Platinum Dishwashing Liquid Supported; Recommends Others be Modified or Discontinued
New York, NY – July 9, 2024 – The National Advertising Division determined that P&G supported its express Invisible Grease Claims as well as the implied claim, “Any difference in removal of grease and food residue between Dawn and Palmolive is meaningful to consumers” but recommended other...
Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council Recommends Lyconet Discontinue Salesforce Member Earnings Claims
McLean, VA – July 1, 2024 – The Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council (DSSRC) recommended that Lyconet America, Inc. discontinue certain earnings claims made by salesforce members on YouTube and Facebook.
Following National Advertising Division Challenge, Afloia Direct Voluntarily Discontinues HEPA and H13 Standards Claims for Air Purifiers
New York, NY – June 28, 2024 – Following a BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division challenge brought by competitor Vesync Corporation, Homintell Inc. voluntarily discontinued claims for various models of its air purifiers.
BBB National Programs Appoints Amy Steacy as General Counsel, Promotes New Leaders in Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising and Global Privacy
McLean, VA – June 4, 2024 – BBB National Programs announced the appointment of Amy Steacy as General Counsel. Additional leadership promotions include Daniel Range as Vice President of the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI) and Dr. Divya Sridhar as Vice President, Global...
Companies Agree to Expand School Coverage under the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative Core Principles
McLean, VA – May 2, 2024 – Twenty-one of the nation’s leading food, beverage, and quick serve restaurant companies have agreed to strengthen their voluntary commitments for responsible food advertising to children under the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI) Core Principles.
BBB National Programs Issues Compliance Warning for Use of AI in Child-Directed Advertising and Data Collection
McLean, VA – May 1, 2024 – BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) today issued a new compliance warning on the application of CARU’s Advertising and Privacy Guidelines to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), putting advertisers, brands, endorsers, developers, toy manufacturers, and others on...
BBB National Programs Applauds Today’s Launch of the Global CBPR Forum, Strengthening Commitments to International Data Privacy
McLean, VA – April 30, 2024 – BBB National Programs applauds the work of the Global CBPR Forum members, including the U.S. Department of Commerce, to launch the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) and Privacy Recognition for Processors (PRP) certification systems, a key development in...
Industry Self-Regulation: Part of the Solution for Governing Generative AI
The Demise of “Chevron Deference”: Who Will Fill the Regulatory Gaps?
Robust Dispute Resolution: A Quiet Enforcer for Privacy Compliance
How Will Customers Know They Can Trust Your Business?
Ad Watchers: Clear and Conspicuous Disclosures: Can You Read the Fine Print?
From small fonts to fast talking and distracting music, our hosts revisit this common issue area in advertising law, discuss what it takes for a disclosure to be considered clear and conspicuous, and share some lessons learned from a series of advertisements, both print and in TV commercials, that didn’t quite meet the clear and conspicuous standard.
Breaking Down AdTech: Cookies and Pixels and SDKs, Oh My!
This episode of Priv breaks down the most talked about issues in the adtech space, including the impact of the death of the cookie, the focus of regulators on the newest kid on the block - the pixel, lessons learned from recent SDK legal cases, what all of this looks like for children and teens, and what the legislative and regulatory road ahead looks like.
Ad Watchers: The best subject in advertising law: Is it puffery?
For this episode of Ad Watchers, join us for Eric’s favorite ad law topic: puffery, an exaggerated, blustering, or boastful statement or general claim that could only be understood to be an expression of opinion, not a statement of fact. But where is the line between puffery and a claim that needs a reasonable basis?
Cross Border Privacy Rules Goes Global: A Deep Dive on CBPRs
Privacy professionals are faced with what seems like a never-ending, sometimes overwhelming stream of new privacy laws and regulations, both here in the U.S. and abroad. In this episode of Priv, host Dona Fraser is joined by Victoria Akosile, Deputy Director of BBB National Programs Privacy Initiatives to take you from APEC to global CBPRs, explaining all of the acronyms in...
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