Consumer Watchdog, working with a broad coalition of consumer protection and civil-rights organizations led by the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, welcomed today a published ...

The CFPB’s role in enforcing consumer protections may diminish as the federal agency undergoes changes and possible elimination. Consumers can still report issues to the FTC, OCC and state attorneys ...

A growing number of state laws require companies deploying chatbots for one-to-one consumer interactions to disclose that the consumers are ...

ALBANY — New York consumers could be protected from “unfair, abusive and deceptive” business practices under a measure passed by the state Legislature Tuesday. Democrats and civil legal rights groups ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has entered a period of significant change under the Trump administration, with recent directives dramatically altering its operations and enforcement ...

Laws regulating extended auto warranties vary from one state to the next, sometimes quite significantly. These laws affect the protections customers have when purchasing and using extended warranties, ...

It wasn’t a law to get rid of fees, only to bring attention to them before the bill arrives. Here are other fees that must be ...

• New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $250,000 from MoneyGram International for failing to follow consumer protection laws and jeopardizing customers' money transfers • The settlement ...

Wire fraud losses often aren’t protected by the FDIC or the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. Here’s what banks cover, what they ...

Businesses that defraud consumers sometimes pay a couple of thousand dollars in civil penalties under current California law. Or they’ll be ordered to pay millions of dollars, but close down or ...

Last week I participated in the radio show On Point to discuss the legacy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It turned out to be something a debate with Richard Cordray, the first director ...