Office of Fair Trading to look at online advertising

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Internet has led to big changes in advertising and marketing practices

Phorm's technology has proved controversial The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to conduct a market study looking at the impact on consumers from potentially misleading advertising and pricing of...

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