The Consumer Affairs Agency has ordered GEO Store, a major buyer and seller with about 1,000 stores nationwide, to cease misleading advertisements that falsely indicated limited-time high prices for smartphones and other items. This is the first such order issued to a buyback service under the Premiums and Representations Act.
CCPA fined Motion Education Rs 10 lakh and Career Line Coaching Rs 5 lakh for misleading ads about JEE/NEET results and unfair trade practices. Ads concealed that featured students used free courses, and CLC misrepresented selection figures.
FCA focuses on marketing, misleading ads, unfair exit fees and people being signed up without their permissionThe City regulator has launched a review of claims management companies amid concerns that firms are misleading victims of financial scandals, such as car finance, about their compensation.The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said some companies were pursuing “aggressive marketing, misleading advertising and unfair exit fees”. Continue reading...
The Verge investigation found Manus AI (Meta's $2B acquisition) ran an advertising campaign paying content creators to promote its AI tool as an easy side hustle capable of generating $5,000/month. Creators on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube posted near-identical hype videos without disclosing their paid relationships with Manus. The ads, which claimed the work takes less than 10 minutes, did not clearly label themselves as advertisements. Legal experts say the undisclosed commercial relationships likely violate platform policies and advertising laws in multiple jurisdictions including the UK, EU, and US.
