Today, the Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules that strengthen its restrictions on autodialed or prerecorded telemarketing calls. The FCC billed the new rules as an effort to maintain consistency with the Federal Trade Commission’s telemarketing sales rule, which also governs telemarketing calls, and to give consumers control over the calls that they receive.
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On February 7, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission sent letters to six marketers of mobile applications that provide background screening services. The applications, including “Police Records,” “Criminal Pages,” and “Locate Anyone,” provide criminal record histories that, if used for employment or other Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)-related purposes, may subject the marketers to treatment…
Originally published as Covington E-Alert on February 13, 2012
New Advertising Rules
Medicinal and Health Products (“loi relative au renforcement de la sécurité sanitaire du médicament et des produits de santé”) (the ‘New Law’) will have a tremendous impact on the medical devices industry. The industry will now be subject to new advertising rules, sunshine-like…
