Effective July 1, 2018, California updated its law regulating the use of automatic renewals for the purchase of goods or services. (Cal. Business & Professions Code §§ 17600 et seq.) Existing law requires that businesses obtain a consumer’s affirmative consent to automatic renewals but only after disclosing the terms of the offer in a clear and conspicuous…
Time and again, someone pulls a prank getting consumers to agree to outrageous things that are included in the terms and conditions and without fail consumers rush to claim the benefit without reading the terms. 2010 – Gamestation In 2010, UK video game e-tailer Gamestation changed its terms and conditions to add the language below as…
California Rejects Browsewrap Arbitration Clause In Long v Provide Commerce, Inc., the California Court of Appeal refused to compel arbitration based on a browsewrap agreement the consumer had no knowledge of. It was not in dispute that the consumer did not have actual knowledge of the terms, so the question then was whether the terms…
Overstock Hit With $6.42 Million Fine From California Court Over Boosted Comparison Pricing In 2010, six Northern California County District Attorneys filed suit against Overstock for fraudulent price comparisons in Alameda County Superior Court. In one example cited in the lawsuit, Overstock advertised a patio set for sale for $449.99 and claimed that the “List…
KLEARGEAR.COM THE NEW WARD THOMAS FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY HONOREE Think of WTF University as the fictitious online equivalent to Animal House’s Faber College (whose motto was “Knowledge is Good”), specializing in the study of self-inflicted cyber wounds. (“SICWs”) Over the past few years we have seen some remarkable SICWs such as: Charles Carreon who in 2011…
LAST WEEK 2012 Presidential Election and Obama Re-Election Insights and Aftermath SEGMENT 1 10:00AM Pacific Has Moscow Become the Cyber Crime Outlet Mall? with Rik Fergus – Director of Security Research and Communication at Trend Micro Link SEGMENT 2 10:30 AM Pacific The Not So Fine Fine Print with Andrew Couts – Digital Trends…
Unsafe Dater Class Action Draws Attention The online dating sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the internet today. So everyone took notice when Match.com was sued by a woman who claims to have been raped by a Match.com user who was a repeat sex offender as part of a class action that…
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