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Employees walk through the building during Vivint’s Innovation Center grand opening in Lehi on Oct. 21, 2014. On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had reached a $20 million agreement with Vivint Smart Home over abuses of customer credit information.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
Vivint Smart Home is on the hook for $20 million in penalties and restitution following a settlement announced Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission over the company’s illegal use of customer credit information.
Under the settlement, Vivint will pay a $15 million civil penalty and an additional $5 million to compensate injured consumers.
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Breyer, overruled the 9th Circuit and held that Section 13(b) of the FTC act does not authorize the Commission to seek, or a court to award, equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement.
The Technology 202: Software company Basecamp restricts talk of politics and social issues at work Cat Zakrzewski
with Aaron Schaffer Basecamp is telling employees to keep chatter about politics or social issues out of work, amid growing limits on employee speech across the tech industry. Jason Fried, the CEO of the Chicago-based software company, wrote in a blog post that such conversations were a “major distraction” and “not healthy,” and he said the company was finished hosting them on internal workplace tools.
“Sensitivities are at 11, and every discussion remotely related to politics, advocacy, or society at large quickly spins away from pleasant,” he wrote. “You shouldn t have to wonder if staying out of it means you re complicit, or wading into it means you re a target.”
We blogged last October
(here) about the Third Circuit’s decision in
FTC v. AbbieVie Inc., holding that Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which expressly gives the FTC authority to obtain injunctive relief, does not allow a district court to order disgorgement or restitution. We also noted that the Supreme Court had granted certiorari to hear an appeal of the 9
th Circuit’s decision in
AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC, where the 9
th Circuit upheld the Commission’s right to seek equitable monetary remedies pursuant to Section 13(b) of the FTC Act, while the 3
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Doug Mastriano is a powerhouse. There is no other word.
HIs list of accomplishments reads like who’s who among American heroes. And that is just the beginning.
U.S. Army Colonel Doug Mastriano is a combat veteran. He served at the Iron Curtain in West Germany and along the East German and Czechoslovakian borders. He was deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm to liberate Kuwait. His regiment led the attack against Saddam’s elite Republican Guard forces.
Colonel Doug Mastriano was the lead planner for the operation to invade Iraq via Turkey. He served four years with NATO and deployed three times to Afghanistan. He was the director of NATO’s Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, leading 80 people from 18 nations. Most inspiring was his leading of seven relief operations to help Afghan orphans.