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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