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Company: Zango, Inc.
Penalty: $3,000,000
Year: 2006
Date: November 3, 2006
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Zango, Inc., formerly known as 180solutions, Inc., a large distributor of adware, and two principals agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they used unfair and deceptive methods to download adware and obstruct consumers from removing it, in violation of federal law. The settlement barred future downloads of Zango's adware without consumers' consent, required Zango to provide a way for consumers to remove the adware, and required the company to give up $3 million in ill-gotten gains.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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