In the latest surge of lawsuits against retailers for embedding tracking technology into websites, yummy cookie company Crumbl was sued on May 1, 2024, for allegedly embedding web-tracking technology allowing third-party processing company Stripe to obtain, without consumer consent, customers’ names, email and delivery addresses, geographic locations, IP addresses, and payment information when consumers surf
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Initial Coin Offerings and Cryptocurrencies Will be a Priority for FINRA in 2018
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Blockchain, Virtual Currency
In a ten page letter that previews the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) priorities for 2018, initial coin offerings (ICOs) and transactions involving cryptocurrencies. This follows previous warnings by both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and FINRA about the risks associated with investing in ICOs and virtual currencies, including Bitcoin. SEC Chairman Jay Clayton…