Zephyr buyers might be getting a refund.
Why is the actual reason the FTC is not pleased nowhere to be found in the article headline, but the one reason the FTC doesn’t give a shit about is?
Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased
Submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/29/24144425/razer-zephyr-face-mask-covid-n95-ftc-settlement
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 6 months ago
To make you click and get ads to populate your browser cookies and track you for a while.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Why wouldn’t they actually just make it N95 level filtration. Wouldn’t be that much more.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
The manufacturing company needs National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) certification for that.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I still think it was cyberpunk af
quindraco@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The penalty was only $100,000, which is so small you can count on Razer pulling a similar stunt in the future, so no worries, you’ll get more fraudulently labelled cyberpunk gear.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What’s more cyber punk than a billion dollar company selling fake lifesaving equipment for profit, while breaking/ ignoring/ bribing their way past the law?
Lmaydev@programming.dev 6 months ago
It says they also have to refund customers. So it’s 100k on top of what they made selling them.
Should still be higher imo. It’s a pretty dangerous thing to do during a pandemic.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Why don’t people go to jail for fraud anymore?
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Because political bribery is legal.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 6 months ago
WOAH there, you can just use words like “bribery”
You have to disguise it.
With a nice neutral word like “lobbying”.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Bankman-Fried got prison time equivalent to murder over his Fraud.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
25 years for stealing 11 billions, I don’t think it’s nowhere enough. How many people died as a result of his theft? How is that different from pointing a gun and shooting someone?