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Finland - Finnish Consumer Ombudsman's Newsletter 02|2022 published
3/3/2023

The second newsletter of 2022 by the Finnish Consumer Ombudsman summarises current events in which the Consumer…

Netherlands - ACM organises seminar on Fair Design in E-Commerce - 5 April 2023
3/2/2023

On Wednesday April 5th 2023, the Netherlands…

United States of America - FTC charges supplement marketer with hijacking ratings and reviews on Amazon.com and using them to deceive consumers
2/17/2023

The Federal Trade Commission took action against a marketer of vitamins and other supplements called The Bountiful Company (Bountiful) for abusing a feature of Amazon.com to deceive consumers into thinking that its newly introduced supplements…

European Union - Google commits to give consumers clearer and more accurate information to comply with EU rules
1/27/2023

Have you ever struggled to understand whether you were buying directly from Google or from a different brand, or had difficulty finding information about final costs? In order to further align its practices with EU law - mainly on lack of…

United States of America - Fortnite video game maker Epic Games to pay more than half a billion US dollars over FTC allegations of privacy violations and unwanted charges
12/20/2022

Epic will pay a US$275 million penalty for violating children’s privacy law, change default privacy settings, and pay US$245 million in refunds for tricking users into making unwanted charges. The Federal Trade Commission has secured…

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