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Swindle dissents from privacy provision : FTC spanks 'free' adult web sites for milking credit accounts, wrings $37.5 million from one.(Xpics Publishing, Inc.,)(Brief Article)
"Free" adult Web sites operators will refund fraudulently billed consumers to settle FTC allegations that they placed unauthorized charges on consumers' credit cards after claiming that they only needed card numbers for age verification purposes.
Xpics Publishing, Inc., and its principals, Mario G. Carmona and Brian M. Shuster also agreed to clearly and conspicuously disclose their billing practices on their websites, and comply with the Truth in Lending Act and the FTC Act in the future.
The Commission voted 5-0 to approve the settlements, but Commissioner Orson Swindle dissented ...
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