FTC Settles With Background Screening Company for Privacy Shield Misrepresentation
A background screening company “falsely claimed” participation in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, and now faces $42,000 fines for future violations, the FTC announced in a settlement Friday. Commissioners approved 5-0 the agreement with Florida-based SecurTest, which the agency said failed…
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to complete its 2017 Privacy Shield application. The company is barred from misrepresenting itself again, but no monetary penalty was issued for the initial offense. The agency also sent “warning letters to 13 companies that falsely claimed they participate in the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor frameworks,” the FTC said.