In a new post on the Covington Inside Privacy blog, our colleagues provide an overview of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) $45 million settlement with online lead generator MediaAlpha, Inc. and its subsidiary QuoteLab, LLC (collectively, “MediaAlpha”), resolving allegations that the companies, among other things, tricked consumers into sharing sensitive personal information under the guise of offering health insurance options through their lead generation sites and used that data for abusive telemarketing, including calling numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. To read the post, please click here.
