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From Consumer Watchdog: Four Senate Democrats have re-introduced a bill that would enable consumers to wield control over how information about them is used by data brokers. The Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 668) empowers consumers to stop the use and sale of their personal information by data brokers. The measure also allows […]
This article by Max Ehrenfreund and Sandhya Somashekhar explains that, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report, the Affordable Care Act is costing taxpayers less than expected because of lower medical spending costs, which in turn will reduce the expected cost of insurance premiums, which in turn will lower the amount the government spends […]
Read the agency's fact sheet and the full report. Here's what the CFPB had to say about its study: Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a study indicating that arbitration agreements restrict consumers’ relief for disputes with financial service providers by limiting class actions. The report found that, in the consumer finance markets studied, […]
The online publication Kansas City infoZine reports: Attorney General Chris Koster has obtained an agreement with eight online payday loan operations to shut down payday loan operations in Missouri, provide $270,000 in consumer restitution, and erase all loan balances for Missouri consumers. … The Attorney General’s Office received 57 complaints from consumers who were collectively […]
The Hill reports: The chairs of the congressional progressive, Hispanic and Black caucuses are urging financial regulators to crack down on payday loans. In a joint letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Hispanic Caucus Chair Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Black Caucus […]
As we reported last week, the Administration recently released a proposed "Privacy Bill of Rights." Since then, both consumer groups and industry groups have noted their dissatisfaction with the Administration's draft. An article today in the Christian Science Monitor reviews the complaints of both sides.
by Paul Alan Levy An increasing number of ISP’s have come to see themselves as more than stakeholders in controversies about whether their users have so clearly exceeded their First Amendment rights that their identities must be revealed in response to court subpoenas. Twitter, for example, declined in the Macao Music case to disclose the […]
About a year ago, we posted about the electric-car company Tesla, which wants to sell cars directly from its stores to consumers, and efforts by car dealers to interfere with Tesla's business model on, you guessed it, consumer-protection grounds. Our earlier post dealt in particular with Tesla's difficulties selling its cars in New Jersey. Now, […]
In a settlement with the Department of Justice, JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay more than $50 million to more than 25,000 homeowners through cash payments, mortgage loan credits, and loan forgiveness. The payment will resolve DOJ accusations that JP Morgan Chase filed robo-signed mortgage documents in bankruptcy courts. The DOJ press release explains: […]