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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Columbia House Company
Penalty: $300,000
Year: 2005
Date: July 15, 2005
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: The Columbia House Company, a direct marketer of home entertainment products, settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that it violated federal law by calling existing or past subscribers of its home entertainment clubs after the subscribers had placed their telephone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and after the subscribers had made specific requests to the company that they not be called.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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