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Controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 2004

    Privacy-policy and child-data enforcement

    The FTC fined Gateway Learning Corporation after determining that the company had retroactively changed its privacy policy without informing customers and had shared private customer information, including information about children, with external marketing firms.

  2. 1994

    Deceptive-advertising controversy

    The Federal Trade Commission accused Gateway Educational Products of deceptive advertising after the company was examined in a Dateline NBC report. The company settled with the FTC and accepted obligations concerning advertising compliance and disclosure of research data and consumer complaints.