Author: Brad Miller, Co-CEO & Chief Legal Officer

The FTC has sent warning letters to 97 auto dealership groups nationwide, expressing “concern” that all these dealers are violating the law, and putting the entire industry on notice that advertised vehicle prices must reflect the true, all-in price consumers will actually pay—including all mandatory fees. Dealers should act immediately to audit their advertising and pricing practices.

California’s privacy regulator just fined Ford Motor Company $375,703 for doing something that sounds almost reasonable on its surface: asking consumers to verify their email before processing an opt-out request. But here’s the thing we’ve been saying for years: under the CCPA (and many other state privacy laws as well), consumer privacy requests like opt-outs are non-verifiable requests.