{"id":53151,"date":"2016-01-12T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=53151"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:36:29","slug":"dont-make-promises-you-cant-keep-when-it-comes-to-brain-games-or-the-ftc-will-come-for-you-chang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/01\/12\/dont-make-promises-you-cant-keep-when-it-comes-to-brain-games-or-the-ftc-will-come-for-you-chang\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t make promises you can\u2019t keep when it comes to brain games, or the FTC will come for you [Chang]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"title\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/brain-games-ftc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t make promises you can\u2019t keep when it comes to brain games, or the FTC will come for you<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from digitaltrends.com by Lulu Chang<\/p>\n<p class=\"title\"><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Promising to make someone smarter is a bold, bold move, and now, the\u00a0Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking a closer look at \u201cbrain games\u201d and their purported benefits. Following a <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/lumos-labs-fined-by-ftc-over-brain-game-claims-1452024646\" target=\"_blank\">$2 million settlement with Lumos Labs<\/a> for deceiving \u201cconsumers with unfounded claims\u201d in ads (hint: brain-training with games isn\u2019t as well backed-up with scientific evidence as, say, strength training with weights), the FTC seems to be on a bit of a roll with this particular matter. In a statement,\u00a0<a class=\"text-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/01\/10\/a-crackdown-on-companies-claiming-they-can-improve-your-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Commission said,<\/a> \u201cCognitive training products and claims are of significant interest to the FTC,\u201d so if your company is telling consumers that their brains will directly benefit from your product, you better have some pretty solid proof to back that up.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t make promises you can\u2019t keep when it comes to brain games, or the FTC will come for you &#8212; from digitaltrends.com by Lulu Chang Excerpt: Promising to make someone smarter is a bold, bold move, and now, the\u00a0Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking a closer look at \u201cbrain games\u201d and their purported benefits. Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,112,285,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corporate-business-world","category-legislation-legislatures","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53152,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53151\/revisions\/53152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}