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The FTC Slams SaaS Marketers For Deceptive Continuity Programs

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Blog And Forum Operators - DMCA "Safe Harbor" Not Bullet Proof

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FTC Legal Forms - FTC Liability Traps With Affiliates

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FTC Report Details Best Practices Regarding Website Legal Documents For Privacy

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Deceptive Website Legal Forms Result in $359 million FTC Settlement

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Chip


Website Legal Compliance - FTC Accelerates Crackdown On Fake News Sites

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We’ve all seen headlines in search results like this one – “XYZ Exposed: Miracle Diet or Scam”.  And perhaps we actually believed there was objective reporting or unbiased commentary behind the headline.  But after reading the web page, it was clear that the headline was just a clever way to catch your attention and lure you to a sales page with an  aggressive sales pitch. 

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has seen these headlines too, and the FTC doesn’t think they’re clever at all.  In fact, the FTC believes they constitute deceptive and unfair trade practices, as indicated by the FTC’s accelerated crackdown on affiliates of a popular diet drink with aggressive weight loss claims.

Read my article - FTC Accelerates Crackdown On Fake News Sites .

Chip


Website Legal Documents - FTC Cracks Down On Toolbars For Collecting Personal Information

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The FTC's recent settlement against an online college savings program that used toolbars to collect personal information highlights the FTC's continuous efforts to crack down on privacy and data security violations regarding the collection, use, and security of personal information.

This time the focus was on the use of toolbars as a collection vehicle, and the related takeaways are in the form of important new rules for the use of toolbars or similar software for collecting personal information.

Read my article:  Website Legal Documents - FTC Cracks Down On Toolbars For Collecting Personal Data

Chip


2012 Resolution - Avoid 7 New Website Legal Compliance Gotchas

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Your personal New Year’s resolutions are important.  You bet.

 However, if you’re a SaaS or Internet marketer, your best-laid plans for 2012 may hit the skids if you fail to avoid new website legal compliance gotcha’s that emerged in 2011. 

 So, It’s highly recommended that you add to your personal resolutions the requirement to review the checklist of critical developments and related gotcha’s in these 2 categories:  privacy and Internet marketing.

Read my article - 2012 Resolution – Avoid 7 New Website Legal Compliance Gotchas

Chip


Website Legal Compliance - Congress Struggles With Protect IP And SOPA Legislation

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Website legal compliance is now under serious consideration by lawmakers in Washington. The U.S. Congress is now considering two proposed bills, which if enacted into law, would provide ground-breaking weapons for law enforcement and content owners to enforce intellectual property rights. If you're a content owner that provides content on the Internet, you have an important stake in the current legislative process.

The competing bills currently under consideration - The Protect IP Act (Protect IP) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - are both aimed at websites that are focused on infringing the intellectual property rights of content owners. What's both creative and controversial about these proposed laws from a website legal compliance perspective is the enforcement mechanism - shutting down the offending websites regardless of whether they're U.S. based or foreign based websites.

Read my article here:  Website Legal Compliance - Congress Struggles With Protect IP And SOPA Legislation

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FTC Seeks To Regulate Online Merchants With Proposed Changes To Mail Order Rule

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing amendments to the Mail Order Rule that would result in its regulation of all sales made over the Internet regardless of how a buyer might initiate the purchase. 

 If you’re an online merchant, the ramifications are significant.

Read my article here.

Chip


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