United States:
FTC Scrutinizes APEC Certification Claims
19 September 2016
by
Daniel J. McLoon
,
Mauricio Paez
,
Kevin Lyles
,
Jonathon Little
,
Todd McClelland
,
Jeff Rabkin
,
Adam Salter
,
Michiru Takahashi
,
Undine Von Diemar
,
Olivier Haas
,
Jörg Hladjk
,
Richard Johnson
,
Anand Varadarajan
and
Nicole Perry
Jones Day
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On June 21, the FTC settled its first action related to the
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative ("APEC")
Cross-Border Privacy Rules ("CBPR") program. A company
represented on its website that it was a certified participant in
the self-regulatory program but was not actually certified.
Following this, the FTC issued warning letters to 28 companies that
claimed to be certified participants in the APEC CBPR program but
did not appear to have met the requirements for certification.
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