New Law Cracks Down On Deceptive Third- Party e-Commerce Practices

摘要

A new layer of federal oversight should help protect consumers and ethical e-commerce companies against misleading and name-tar-nishing activities of outlaw e-tailers who have ripped off thousands of U.S. consumers. On Dec. 29, President Obama signed the Restore Online Shop-pers' Confidence Act ("ROSCA"), introduced in the Senate early last year by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), chair of the Senate Com-mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (The Act is available at http://bit.ly/g95D6h.) "We're pleased Congress passed this legislation," Federal Trade Com-mission ("FTC") Chair Jon Leibowitz says in a statement on the Commis-sion's Web site. "Too many compa-nies are trying to use phony monthly billing to rip off Americans and this bill will help strengthen our hand." The FTC will enforce the law.