After graduation from law school in 1985, Mr. Gold joined the Federal Trade Commission's Washington, D.C. office. Since moving to the Western Region in 1990, Mr. Gold has worked on numerous deceptive advertising matters, including cases against Apple Computer, CompUSA, Inc., Gateway, Inc., Oreck Corporation, Beiersdorf, Inc., L’Occitane, Inc., Nissan North America, Inc., and Sony Computer Entertainment America, LLC. He has also been involved in cases against Hershey Foods Corporation and the American Popcorn Company, two of the Commission's first actions enforcing the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule.