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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.

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2019

May

May 01, 2019

• Headlines | How a common blood test can cost $11 or almost $1,000
• Headlines | Amazon’s facial-recognition tech is supercharging police
• Headlines | Debt collectors could text, email you under new rules

April

Apr 30, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Some college students are choosing “Income Share Agreements” to pay for tuition due to high student loan amount (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | NY lawmakers will pass a new bill to ban toxins in toys (Chinese)
• Headlines | Are pregnancy apps sharing intimate data with your boss?
• Headlines | If you’re in debt, you don’t deserve a vacation
• Headlines | TSA says an airport scanner must add a filter to protect travelers’ privacy

Apr 29, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Apple removed around 17 parental monitoring apps over security and privacy concerns (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Losing our fourth amendment data protection
• Headlines | This $1,650 pill will tell your doctors if you’ve taken it
• Headlines | The U.S. economy feels like the 1990s, but with more inequality

Apr 27, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | New York State Attorney General announced the investigation of Facebook for keeping 1.5M emails (Chinese)
• Spanish Headlines | La FDA ha sabido de los niveles altos de arsénico en una de las aguas embotelladas Keurig Dr Pepper durante años, según los registros

Apr 26, 2019

• Headlines | You can’t stop robocalls. You shouldn’t have to.
• Headlines | Five charts show how bad the student loan debt situation is
• Headlines | Court says using chalk on tires for parking enforcement violates constitution
• Headlines | Before deciding on a college, look closely at the financial aid letter
• Headlines | Meal kits have a smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping

Apr 25, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Poor people’s privacy can’t be an afterthought
• Headlines | Alexa can share users’ home addresses

Apr 24, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | You’re about to get fewer robocalls, but maybe not for long
• Headlines | How Nest home protection allowed hackers in
• Headlines | Tax tips for home buyers and sellers
• Headlines | Leasing a Tesla? You’re paying for the company’s robotaxis

Apr 23, 2019

• Headlines | Seniors spending $22 billion from savings to cover health-care costs
• Headlines | Children are swallowing foreign objects more frequently
• Headlines | Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes too

Apr 22, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | New York nears plastic-bag ban though clothes, and meat bags are exempted (Chinese)
• Headlines | Elizabeth Warren’s plan: Cancel student debt and eliminate tuition
• Headlines | Why aren’t more people tapping into their home equity?
• Headlines | FTC considering oversight of Facebook’s Zuckerberg
• Headlines | How WhatsApp and other encryption apps shaped the Mueller report
• Headlines | Free speech puts U.S. on ‘collision course’ with global limits on big tech

Apr 21, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Asian garden turned into a community forum (Chinese)

Apr 19, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | How to make retirement last the rest of your life
• Headlines | Debt collectors may soon text, email consumers
• Headlines | CFPB head says people need ‘to help themselves’

Apr 18, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ 1.5 Million email contacts without consent (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
• Headlines | Uber vs. Lyft: Which ride-hailing app is better
• Headlines | Could debt collectors send you texts, emails?
• Headlines | No-income, no-asset mortgages are back
• Headlines | Military members could save tens of millions of dollars on student loans
• Headlines | Same-sex couples face higher rejection and worse mortgage rates

Apr 17, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand
• Headlines | Uber fixes electric bike breaking problem
• Headlines | Student loans shouldn’t keep you from investing
• Headlines | Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play recall leaves parents frustrated
• Spanish Headlines | Toma hijo, tu tarjeta de crédito

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