An opinion from the French “Abusive Clauses Commission” has complained of 46 provisions in social media site terms of use and privacy policies that in its view are unfair. Georgina Graham and Gregoire Dumas report.
An Italian supermarket chain promoted offers. A customer travelled to a branch but offer products were not available. A fine for breach of EU unfair commercial practices laws ensued, but the retailer appealed to the CJEU. Why? Thomas Spanyol reports.
It now seems probable that the threshold for six figure penalties to be issued for breaches of privacy and electronic communications laws will be lowered dramatically very soon. But will the change extend to emails and cookies? Stephen Groom reports.
New regulations have come into force which liberalise the rules governing what companies and LLPs can call themselves and the trading disclosures they have to make Tom Harvey and Nick Thody report.
After 214 complaints to ICO and the “do not call” list administrator the Telephone Preference Service, enforcement action was taken over cold calls to often vulnerable consumers despite their numbers being on the TPS list. Fiona Schneider reports.
The UK’s data watchdog has updated its flagship Guide to Data Protection and advised that all previous versions are disregarded. Ben Dunham reports.
Misleading financial promotions can fall within the remit of both the Financial Conduct Authority and the Advertising Standards Authority. This MoU provides a framework for co-operation and co-ordination between the two bodies. Sadie Alo reports.
The “CPP” was formed in 2012 and includes the CMA, the FCA and Trading Standards. Its new strategic priorities report identifies detrimental marcoms practices that will be on enforcers’ hit lists in the year ahead. Stephen Groom reports.
Seven of the world’s leading app providers have been written to by a consortium of 23 national privacy authorities. Was it to wish them a happy new year? Daisy Jones reports.
With no let-up in environmental claims undergoing scrutiny by the Advertising Standards Authority, a Good Practice Guide on Sustainability claims sounds like good news. But does it help? Emma Harrington reports.
“Any 3 for £10. £5 each” said headlines in advertising offering selected wines at bargain prices. But should an end date have been included after customers had problems finding the wines in stores? Thomas Spanyol reports the ASA’s decision.
As of 13 December 2014 the 1996 Food Labelling Regulations were no more. The new regime is primarily aimed at labelling, but it also has implications for advertisers and marketers. Stephen Groom reports.
