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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.
- Senate stays course on ‘net neutrality’
- Home DNA tests: Too much information?
- Bankruptcy filings up despite reforms
- Worker lunch hours shrink
- Cable franchise battle brewing
- Congress erects hurdles to consituent e-mail
- Costly computer crashes
- Beware: credit card interest can double
- New mortgages worry regulators
- Laws protect you when using financial services
- DC sues InPhonic cell firm over rebates
- House telecom bill favors telcos
- ‘Net neutrality slated for House vote
- No summer break from taxes
- How Americans use the Internet
- Senators won’t grill phone companies
- 43% not saving enough to retire well
- Telecommuting interest surges with gas prices
- The entrepreneurial melting pot
- Study details how Congress votes to override states
- Debate over wind power
- ACLU eyes surveillance in phone merger
- The gathering pensions storm
- Lax enforcement puts patient privacy at risk
- Credit card gimmicks galore
- Hotels.com customer info may be at risk
- A bill to deliver the American Dream
- Do you know your adjustable rate loan?
- ‘Gift fund’ charities for home buyers in peril
- Energy: Wiser on the West Coast
- Addresses, phone numbers in stolen Vet data
- New fee for wireless and Internet phones
- Reward points for debit cards
- Bogus checks, but scam victims pay
- Free cell talk time - Just watch ads
- Apartment rents expected to rise 5%
- Research ways to convert currency for travel savings
- Revolving door at payday lenders
- Be a privacy smart traveler
- Bank of America says, ‘Charge it, Fido’
- HOEPA hearings open for public comment
- Middle class jumps on broadband as price falls
- Data breach holds possibility of ID theft
- Excise phone tax killed after 108 years
- Technology speeds paying of health bills
- Memorial Day travel tips
- CFA warns hybrid mortgages hurt consumers
- Worker database is flawed
- Common-sense home safety
- Do cellphones fuel teen angst?
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