Amazon will pay $61.7 million to settle charges of withholding tips from delivery drivers tlevin@businessinsider.com (Tim Levin) © Pascal Rossignol/Reuters The settlement will be used to pay back drivers who lost tips. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Amazon will pay nearly $62 million to settle federal charges that it withheld tips from delivery drivers.
The Federal Trade Commission said Amazon didn t pay 100% of customer tips to drivers, as it had promised. While we disagree that the historical way we reported pay to drivers was unclear, we added additional clarity in 2019 and are pleased to put this matter behind us, an Amazon spokesperson told Insider on Tuesday.
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FTC finalizes settlement with Zoom over misleading encryption claims
Fool me once.
Hey, would you look at that: A company is actually facing consequences for its actions.Â
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it has finalized a settlement with Zoom. At issue was the company allegedly misleading its users about the privacy and security of its core product. Â
Monday s announcement comes almost three months after Zoom agreed to the settlement terms, and marks the beginning â not the end â of an ongoing commitment to improve the security of its videoconferencing software. The final order requires Zoom to implement a comprehensive security program, review any software updates for security flaws prior to release and ensure the updates will not hamper third-party security features, explains the FTC announcement. The company must also obtain biennial assessments of its security program by an independent third party, which the FTC has authority to appro
Consumers Forced Into Credit Card Debt for Marketing Company
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Two Nevada companies and two individuals have agreed to stop charging consumers thousands of dollars to apply for multiple credit cards in their names in order to pay for expensive and often ineffective training programs under a proposed settlement of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit.
The FTC filed a federal court complaint along with a proposed settlement which requires the defendants to stop obtaining credit cards for consumers for a fee. In addition, the defendants will be required to pay $2.1 million under the proposed settlement, which will be distributed by the FTC to consumers.
Got a package you didn t order? It could be a scam By: CNN Shutterstock
(CNN) Most people who buy things online just have to worry about their deliveries being delayed or never arriving. But some people are dealing with a different problem altogether: getting weird stuff like hair clippers, face creams and sunglasses they never even ordered at all.
The Federal Trade Commission and cyber experts have been warning consumers about these deliveries, which can be part of something known as brushing scams.
Here s how these scams work: Third-party sellers on Amazon, eBay and other online marketplaces pay people to write fake, positive reviews about their products, or do it themselves. To be able to post the reviews, these so-called brushers need to trick the site into making it appear that a legitimate transaction took place. So they ll use a fake account to pl
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