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Company: WW International, Inc.
Current Parent Company: WW International
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Penalty: $1,500,000
Year: 2022
Date: March 4, 2022
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: WW International, Inc., formerly known as Weight Watchers, and a subsidiary called Kurbo, Inc. agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle allegations they marketed a weight loss app for use by children as young as eight and then collected their personal information without parental permission. The settlement order requires WW International and Kurbo to delete personal information illegally collected from children under 13 and destroy any algorithms derived from the data.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: miscellaneous services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: weight loss services
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.