The Commerce Department published Federal Register notices Feb. 16 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and Russia (C-714-001, C-821-825). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Feb. 16.
Flo Health, developer of a popular women’s fertility-tracking app, misled users and improperly shared users' sensitive health data with third-parties including Facebook and Google, the FTC alleged in a 5-0 settlement announced Wednesday. Despite promises to keep the data private, Flo “disclosed health data from millions of users of its Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker app to third parties that provided marketing and analytics services to the app, including Facebook’s analytics division, Google’s analytics division, Google’s Fabric service, AppsFlyer, and Flurry,” the FTC said. Commissioners Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter dissented in part, saying the agency should have charged the company with violating the Health Breach Notification Rule, for which the agency has never brought action. Commissioner Noah Phillips disagreed with the Democrats: “We have never applied the Rule to a health app such as Flo in the past, in part because the language of the Rule is not so plain. And I do not support announcing such a novel interpretation of the Rule here, in the context of an enforcement action.” The company faces civil penalties of up to $43,792 for any future violations. Flo didn’t share usernames, addresses or birthdays, a spokesperson emailed, noting the settlement included no admission of wrongdoing: “We do not currently, and will not, share any information about our users’ health with any company unless we get their permission. We have a comprehensive privacy framework with a robust set of policies and procedures to safeguard our users’ data.” The consent order includes a company compliance review, the spokesperson added.
Flo Health, developer of a popular women’s fertility-tracking app, misled users and improperly shared users' sensitive health data with third-parties including Facebook and Google, the FTC alleged in a 5-0 settlement announced Wednesday. Despite promises to keep the data private, Flo “disclosed health data from millions of users of its Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker app to third parties that provided marketing and analytics services to the app, including Facebook’s analytics division, Google’s analytics division, Google’s Fabric service, AppsFlyer, and Flurry,” the FTC said. Commissioners Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter dissented in part, saying the agency should have charged the company with violating the Health Breach Notification Rule, for which the agency has never brought action. Commissioner Noah Phillips disagreed with the Democrats: “We have never applied the Rule to a health app such as Flo in the past, in part because the language of the Rule is not so plain. And I do not support announcing such a novel interpretation of the Rule here, in the context of an enforcement action.” The company faces civil penalties of up to $43,792 for any future violations. Flo didn’t share usernames, addresses or birthdays, a spokesperson emailed, noting the settlement included no admission of wrongdoing: “We do not currently, and will not, share any information about our users’ health with any company unless we get their permission. We have a comprehensive privacy framework with a robust set of policies and procedures to safeguard our users’ data.” The consent order includes a company compliance review, the spokesperson added.
Flo Health, developer of a popular women’s fertility-tracking app, misled users and improperly shared users' sensitive health data with third-parties including Facebook and Google, the FTC alleged in a 5-0 settlement announced Wednesday. Despite promises to keep the data private, Flo “disclosed health data from millions of users of its Flo Period & Ovulation Tracker app to third parties that provided marketing and analytics services to the app, including Facebook’s analytics division, Google’s analytics division, Google’s Fabric service, AppsFlyer, and Flurry,” the FTC said. Commissioners Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter dissented in part, saying the agency should have charged the company with violating the Health Breach Notification Rule, for which the agency has never brought action. Commissioner Noah Phillips disagreed with the Democrats: “We have never applied the Rule to a health app such as Flo in the past, in part because the language of the Rule is not so plain. And I do not support announcing such a novel interpretation of the Rule here, in the context of an enforcement action.” The company faces civil penalties of up to $43,792 for any future violations. Flo didn’t share usernames, addresses or birthdays, a spokesperson emailed, noting the settlement included no admission of wrongdoing: “We do not currently, and will not, share any information about our users’ health with any company unless we get their permission. We have a comprehensive privacy framework with a robust set of policies and procedures to safeguard our users’ data.” The consent order includes a company compliance review, the spokesperson added.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Dec. 31, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADD CVD Search page.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Dec. 30, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADD CVD Search page.
The Commerce Department published Federal Register notices Dec. 29 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is amending its recently issued preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001). A correction to a calculation error means rates for OCP and all other Moroccan exporters will drop from 23.46% to 16.88%. Commerce is making no changes at this time to its concurrently issued preliminary determination on phosphate fertilizers from Russia. New rates for Moroccan exporters, applicable upon publication of this amended preliminary determination on Dec. 29, are as follows:
A new report summarizing town halls convened by Farmers for Free Trade says the elimination of the steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico “went a long way toward stabilizing these export markets,” and that grain prices have recovered, but that more free trade deals are critical to support farmers and rural economies. The report, released Dec. 15, was highlighted in a webinar.