In 2002, it was revealed that commission-hungry sales staff working for London Electricity drummed up new customers by forging their signatures and switching them without their knowledge or consent.

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In the other case, the FTC charged Path, the operator of the eponymous social-networking app, with deceiving its users by collecting personal information from their mobile address books without their knowledge or consent.

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Its first stop would be the Justice Committee, where it could get mired in all sorts of procedural issues, including the admissibility of the main evidence against Mrs Arroyo: purported recordings of her telephone conversations, made without her knowledge or consent.

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Cecilia Barnes had filed a lawsuit in 2005 in Portland claiming her ex-boyfriend not only posted nude photos taken of her without her knowledge or consent, he also created a fraudulent profile with personal information and posed as her in an online chat room to solicit sex.

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