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Company: Educational Research Center of America, Inc.
Penalty: $200,000
Year: 2008
Date: October 30, 2008
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Educational Research Center of America agreed to pay $200,000 as part of the settlement of multistate litigation alleging that it improperly collected personal information from high school and junior high school students.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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