Controversies

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• 在没有真实性依据的情况下，虚构“红人亲测”及某网红使用该化妆品前后脸部对比图案及功效介绍，宣称“这款精华才使用几天效果就很明显。下颌线up 的感觉是最明显的”等内容，构成虚假广告。

• 两个当事人的行为违反了《广告法》的有关规定，市场监管部门依法责令停止发布违法广告，在相应范围内消除影响，各处罚款40万元。

• 上述广告系欧缇丽公司设计、制作后与丝芙兰公司共同协商确定的广告内容，两者构成共同广告主。

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• An Indiana woman has filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and multiple retailers, alleging that their mask requirements violated laws meant to protect people with disabilities.

• Krispy Kreme, Sephora, and AMC Theatres were among the 16 named defendants in the lawsuit filed on August 18 by Jennifer Reinoehl in US District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

• Jennifer Reinoehl filed the lawsuit on Aug. 18, stating that the CDC mask requirements violated laws meant to protect people with disabilities. Krispy Kreme, Sephora and AMC Theatres were among the 16 defendants named in the lawsuit.

Company response

• Ongoing disclosure — Sephora

  The company will then identify its blind spots and publish a plan of action to help them meet the 15% benchmark.

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• Sephora was one of the major retailers called out by the pledge and was the first to publicly commit.

• The company will then identify its blind spots and publish a plan of action to help them meet the 15% benchmark.

• Sephora is the first major retailer to take the Fifteen Percent Pledge, which asks large retailers to give at least that much shelf space to black-owned brands.

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• The settlement unsurprisingly bars Sunday Riley from posting fake reviews, but also requires that it clearly identify endorsers (and their connections), and asks it to "instruct" staff on their own disclosure responsibilities.

• Sunday Riley has settled with the FTC over reports that it ordered employees to post fake reviews on Sephora's website in a bid to boost sales.

Company response

• Apology — Sephora

  a sincere written apology to its customers for the breach

• Remediation — Sephora

  We have cancelled all existing passwords for customer accounts and we have thoroughly reviewed our security systems.

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• In the CEO’s email, Sephora reassured customers that, "no credit card information was accessed," and they have, "no reason to believe that any personal data has been misused."

• In the same email, the CEO then went on to provide detail on the personal information that Sephora believe has been wrongfully accessed: customer first and last name, date of birth, gender, email address, encrypted password, and data related to beauty preferences.

• On Monday, 5th August 2019, the CEO of Sephora, Alia Gogi, emailed Sephora customers in South East Asia, that Sephora had become aware of a data breach affecting customer data in South East Asia, which (they estimate), occurred sometime during the preceding fortnight.