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Financial Conduct Authority consults on social media comms guidance
Increasingly, financial services firms are using social platforms for customer communications and financial promotions. The FCA is consulting on draft guidance to clarify its regulatory approach in this area, with good and bad practice examples. Miah Ramanathan reports.
UK do not call list tested
Just how effective is the Telephone Preference Service in stopping unwanted marketing calls? Ofcom and privacy regulator ICO have published the results of research to help make enforcement action against nuisance callers easier. Ben Dunham reports.
Misleading marketer fails to spike trading standards’ guns
WMS Business Protection argued that Oldham Trading Standards couldn’t take further enforcement action against it over non-compliant marketing because WMS had moved out of Oldham. Good wheeze? Thomas Spanyol reports.
EU data protection law reform latest
Dramatic increase proposed in maximum fines for breach of ad laws
App developers watch out! German DPAs publish guidance
CAP looks to get tougher on code breakers
The ASA’s sister body wants to be able to impose sanctions, such as compulsory pre-vetting of all non broadcast ads, on a wider swathe of non-compliant advertisers. Anna Williams reports.
New product placement guidance from Ofcom
Paid-for product placement in TV programmes has been legal in the UK since February 2011. Ofcom has now published further guidance to be read in conjunction with the principal rules. Nick Johnson reports.
New guidance from Brussels on consumer rights directive
Dyson challenges Shark’s “America’s most recommended vacuum brand” claim
The “NAD,” the USA’s equivalent to the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, has recently adjudicated on a case where consumer reviews were the basis for Euro-Pro’s contested claim. But did they provide adequate substantiation? Felicity Fisher reports.
Government “Midata” project response from energy
