While smart-TV maker Vizio settled with the FTC for tracking users’ viewing habits, many suspect that the settlement will not set a trend. Kandi Parsons responded to the settlement, “Ohlhausen’s promise to lead an effort to ‘more rigorously’ evaluate what constitutes substantial injury hints that use of the unfairness prong of the FTC Act could require a stronger demonstration of harm, and thus be more limited, under her leadership.” This Law360 article is paywalled.
