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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
National Advertising Division Refers Problem Pregnancy Center to the MA Attorney General and Social Platforms for Review
New York, NY – May 16, 2024 – The National Advertising Division (NAD) referred advertising claims made by Problem Pregnancy, a crisis pregnancy center, to the Massachusetts Attorney General and social media platforms after the company failed to respond to NAD's inquiry.
National Advertising Division Finds Certain Compostability Claims for HoldOn Bags Supported; Recommends Others be Modified or Discontinued
New York, NY – May 16, 2024 – The National Advertising Division determined that HoldOn Bags has a reasonable basis to claim that its trash bags break down in compost environments, but recommended other claims be discontinued.
Following National Advertising Division Challenge Aroeve Voluntarily Discontinues Certain Claims for HEPA Air Purifiers
New York, NY – May 15, 2024 – Following a National Advertising Division challenge brought by competitor Vesync Corporation, Antadi LLC d/b/a Aroeve Direct voluntarily discontinued certain claims for its HEPA air purifiers.
Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council Recommends pawTree Discontinue Salesforce Member Earnings Claims
McLean, VA – May 9, 2024 – The Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council (DSSRC) recommended that pawTree, LLC discontinue certain earnings claims made by salesforce members on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
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...
Receivables Management Association International and BBB National Programs Announce New Accountability Service to Enhance the Receivables Management Certification Program
McLean, VA – February 6, 2024 – The Receivables Management Association International (RMAI) and BBB National Programs announced today that, effective March 1, 2024, BBB National Programs will independently administer the Remediation Committee for RMAI’s Receivables...
Renewal Season: 5 Tips to Ensure a Smooth Data Privacy Framework Process
The Evolution of CARU: Laying the Foundation in the 70s and 80s
Think of the Children: A Comparison of APRA and COPPA 2.0
Unlocking Global Data Privacy Interoperability with CBPRs
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...
The Evolution of Advertising in the Children’s Space
In 1974 the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) was established to protect children under age 13 from deceptive or inappropriate advertising. Over the years, CARU expanded to address new media platforms, new advertising techniques, and to ensure that children’s data is collected and handled responsibly online. Join us to discuss how advertising has changed, identify CARU’s...
Revisiting Consumer Reviews: Incentivized, Inflated, or Authentic?
In this episode of Ad Watchers, our hosts address an issue that is on the FTC’s radar this year: the power of consumer reviews in influencing consumer purchasing decisions, including recent NAD cases reflecting updates to the FTC’s Endorsement Guides as well as the good, the bad, and the gray in advertising using consumer reviews.
Consumer Privacy in Telehealth: An Interview with the ATA
In this episode of Priv, Dona Fraser is joined by Kyle Zebley from the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) to get a check-up on consumer health data privacy in the telehealth industry. From HIPAA to the pandemic to Dobbs to a hodge podge of new state-level privacy laws, Dona and Kyle discuss the companies navigating this complex terrain, how the world of telehealth has changed,...
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