Consumer Protection

• Restricting forced arbitration protects investors
• Dairy Security Act will raise prices on milk and dairy products
• Protecting consumers from predatory student loans
• Payday loans are dangerous for consumers
• FTC’s New Car Rule benefits used car dealers and hurts consumers
• SAFE Lending protects consumers from risky practices
• Curbing dangerous Wall Street practices
• Protect driver privacy and establish privacy safeguards for “event data recorders”
• Comments to the CFPB opposing proposed relaxation in remittance rules
• Priority legislation needed to avoid fiscal cliff
• Proposed Mortgage Servicing Rules fail to protect families
• The FTC and COPPA should do more to protect children’s privacy
• Additional requirements for charitable hospitals needed
• Including CHIP as a Lifeline-qualifying assistance program helps the working poor
• The revised Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act
• Full-file utility credit reporting could hurt millions of consumers
• The most vulnerable to be harmed by automatic budget cuts in 2013
• Changes to S. 3468 give lobbyists more power
• McDonalds may violate Child Online Privacy Protection Rule
• The ED should stop rampant for-profit college fraud
• In support of fair and affordable federal loan repayment options
• Protecting foreign transactions with the remittance rule
• Whistleblower protection is the foundation of consumer protection
• A permanent replacement of FHFA’s DeMarco is crucial
• CFPB should review reloadable prepaid cards
• Improvements should be made to CFPB’s consumer complaint database
• Supporting AB 2296
• Rental-to-own bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
• CFPB should review impact of forced arbitration outside of skewed proceedings
• Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Strategic Plan
• The Fair Debt Collection Practices Clarification Act
• Comments on payday lending abuses
• On the FSC proposal to eliminate budgetary independence of the CFPB
• AFR on the CFPB’s proposed definitions
• The Know Before You Owe Act of 2012
• Senate should enhance consumer credit protections for servicemembers and their families
• Occupy Wall Street movement highlights another harm from big banks: loss of privacy
• FCC must protect consumers from cramming fraud and abuses
• Payphones should be funded and fixed
• Mortgage servicers must be held to strong standards by consumer agency
• New protections on remittances offer solid standards for consumers
• Regulators should balance fairness and safety in addressing rules for home loans
• 5% risk retention for lender should not mean 20% down payment on mortgages for buyers
• Congress should close the unsafe rental car loophole
• OCC must drastically strengthen payday loan and overdraft protections
• Consumers lose with five-day mail delivery
• CA files amicus brief in tax refund case
• Congress should pass law helping ease pain of private student loans
• Real debt help
• Don’t handcuff the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
• FTC should swiftly conclude its review of children’s online privacy law
• Old exceptions to risk-based pricing rule must be removed before Dodd-Frank can work
• Consumer Action supports YouTube-Google in landmark case
• Bill to protect online privacy needs strengthening in key ways
• Amendment would eliminate protections for students in college career education programs
• CFPB complaint system must resolve complaints and meet public expectations
• Commerce should recommend increased protections for kids and teens online
• Unemployed homeowners are left in the dust, while HUD waits
• Agencies need adequate funds to fufill financial reform legislation
• Court must affirm that restrictions on sale of video games is unconstitutional
• Congress should enact legislation to ban tax strategy patents
• DOT on the right track in enhancing airline passenger protections
• Office of the Comptroller: Update guidelines on banks, overdraft
• Close call on loosening mortgage documentation standards
• FDIC deserves praise for work on overdraft practices, but needs to do more
• Push for electronic deposit shouldn’t penalize vulnerable recipients of federal benefits
• Give patients the tools they need to control their personal health information
• Support Elizabeth Warren for consumer watchdog job
• SEC’s proposed rule would expose personal financial information of homeowners
• Congress should investigate Microsoft’s decision to undermine consumer privacy
• Congress should enact auto safety bill without weakening amendments
• Protect consumers from cell phone “bill shock”
• Privacy legislation must be grounded in Fair Information Practices
• Data collection provisions in health law ensure equal access and care
• Students need protection from schools that don’t deliver “gainful employment”
• Regulatory role of Labor Department should frame debate on retirement plans
• No two-tier campaign finance laws: Consumer groups oppose DISCLOSE Act
• Online privacy bill needs to be fortified with FIPs and other protections
• Chase should revisit consumer marketing materials on overdraft fees
• Let consumers compare health insurance rates fairly
• Protection means choice: Give the CFPB and SEC authority over forced arbitration
• Full body scanner program violates privacy and doesn’t work
• Banks must be closely supervised as they implement overdraft opt-in rules
• Give the FTC the tools it needs to protect consumers
• Online payday loans trap borrowers
• Financial reform must include a strong, independent consumer regulator
• Restore funding Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
• Big Retail is watching: Digital signage networks are everywhere
• Give prepaid cards the same protections as debit cards
• Keep consumer protection agency independent
• DOE should strengthen energy efficiency requirements to reduce costs, emissions
• Financial protection agency could stop next recession
• Congress should reign in reckless financial markets gambling
• Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger is a ticket disaster
• Privacy and Fair Information Practices should guide FCC
• Strengthen privacy in FCC’s national broadband plan
• Data collection and tracking via student loans is open-ended and overbroad
• Report cards grade privacy of online personal health records
• SEC should investigate, have power to prohibit investment arbitration clauses
• Protect debt-strapped consumers from unscrupulous industry practices