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Sears Petitions to Change Its 8-Year-Old FTC Privacy Settlement Order<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0Wendell Bartnick\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

On October 30, 2017, Sears Holding Management Corporation (\u201cSears\u201d)\u00a0petitioned\u00a0the Federal Trade Commission (\u201cFTC\u201d) to reopen and modify the settlement to which they agreed in 2009.\u00a0 At that time, Sears agreed to a\u00a0consent order\u00a0to resolve the FTC\u2019s\u00a0complaint that Sears allegedly did not adequately disclose the scope of its collection of \u201conline browsing\u201d data collected from users of Sears\u2019 desktop software application.<\/p>\n

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The Sears petition should serve as a wake-up call to companies. Once under order, a company may need to comply for 20 years with rigid and detailed requirements set by the FTC that could seriously affect (and restrict) how a company does business. Therefore, companies should regularly review their privacy and data protection practices to help ensure they meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices.<\/p>\n

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