On July 7, 2004, Gateway settled the complaint with the FTC by entering into a Consent Decree that required Gateway to surrender certain profits to the U.S. Treasury and placed various restrictions upon Gateway that would remain in effect for twenty years [REF].
Order II of the Decree prohibited Gateway from selling, renting, trading, or disclosing any personal information it had collected from consumers under its initial privacy policy, unless and until the company obtain express affirmative consent from the individual consumers [REF].