Saturday, November 7, 2026
News For Internet Marketers
A Justice Department final rule published October 27, 2026 and effective November 27 lets federal firearms licensees voluntarily run free NICS checks, with written consent, on employees and on-site contractors who can access firearms, ammunition or manufacturing components.
Authorize.Net lets merchants keep an old transaction or signature key alive for 24 hours or kill it at once. After a WordPress compromise, its documentation points to the immediate cutoff, and the signature key change has to be matched in webhook code so notifications keep arriving.
Hims & Hers Health filed an October 22, 2026 motion to dismiss all nine counts in the FTC, California and Utah lawsuit over ad pixels, customer lists and subscription billing, arguing its privacy policy disclosed advertiser sharing and its plans fall outside ROSCA.
South Dakota began taking retail nicotine license applications on November 1, 2026. SB 221 requires a license for every location and bans online, phone and mail sales by licensed retailers from January 1, 2027, while HB 1220 has limited direct shipping of vapor and pouch products since July 1.
North Carolina's vapor products directory will list every product by SKU, update on the first of each month and flag removals, giving retailers 30 days to sell or return delisted stock before it can be seized. Police and state investigators now run the inspections.
Shopify's October 22, 2026 changelog says checkout now shows payment methods as tiles when a store offers four or fewer, alongside a single Terms and policies footer link and a narrowed link protection feature for online stores.
WooCommerce 11.3, scheduled for the week of November 9, 2026, adds payment method as a column, CSV field and filter in Analytics Orders, backfills older orders in the background, and tightens validation on refunds created through the REST API.
Shopify's October 27 security update sets the enforcement path for public apps that still use non-expiring offline access tokens, with App Store delisting on January 1, 2027, merchant warnings on January 15 and HTTP 403 errors from April 1.
FDA on October 19, 2026 finalized the identity, history of use and safety summary sections of its 2016 new dietary ingredient draft, replacing two safety profiles with one safety narrative and keeping 25 years of widespread use as the usual floor for history alone.
Nacha's October 8 request for information on first-party fraud asks whether billers should be able to prove a disputed ACH debit was authorized, floats new entry descriptions and indicators, and proposes a recredit clarification for June 18, 2027. Responses are due December 11.
