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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

August

Aug 31, 2019

• Headlines | The Right to remain private: Where U.S. law lets you down

Aug 30, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Warning from a well-known fraudster: don’t use a debit card (Chinese)
• Headlines | Tesla just started selling auto insurance
• Headlines | Why aren’t women working? They’re caring for parents
• Headlines | Student loan scams promise to help students get rid of their crippling loans

Aug 29, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Relying on just your Medicare card for health insurance? That is a expensive mistake to make (Chinese)
• Opinions & Editorials | Consumer bureau’s reckless plan for debt collection
• Headlines | What happens when you don’t pay a hospital bill
• Headlines | Your long-term care insurance rate spiked. Now what?
• Headlines | CFPB’s Kraninger blasted for delaying payday rule
• Headlines | The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem
• Spanish Headlines | Motel 6 pagará indemnizaciones a 100,000 huéspedes, ¡así es como puedes hacer tu reclamo!

Aug 28, 2019

• Headlines | Student allegedly denied U.S. entry over friends’ social media
• Headlines | The Baroness fighting to protect children online
• Headlines | A 20-year home mortgage can save you money
• Headlines | Police in 400+ cities can access private video from Amazon’s Ring
• Spanish Headlines | Apple pondrá fin a práctica predeterminada de guardar grabaciones de Siri

Aug 27, 2019

• Headlines | Inside North Carolina’s big effort to transform health care
• Headlines | Plastics: What’s recyclable, and what becomes trash
• Headlines | Google doesn’t want staff debating politics at work

Aug 26, 2019

• Headlines | Business groups warn of peril from Trump’s trade war
• Headlines | Paying for college comes down to managing expectations
• Headlines | Number of workers becoming retirement-plan millionaires hits high
• Headlines | Elizabeth Warren slams CFPB student loan watchdog appointment
• Spanish Headlines | Mantén a los niños a salvo de accidentes con lavadoras de carga frontal
• Spanish Headlines | Piratas informáticos podrían haber accedido a información de un programa antiterrorismo durante años

Aug 25, 2019

• Spanish Headlines | No, su número de Seguro Social no está a punto de ser suspendido
• Spanish Headlines | El misterio de las expulsiones de usuarios en Facebook

Aug 24, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | FBI cracks down on a large ring of scammers that targeted elderly - 80 arrested (Chinese)

Aug 23, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | a Nobel Prize winning phone notice was mistaken for a robocall (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | 13 cell phone providers offer tools to block automated voice calls (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | Attorney General James joins telephone companies in fights against Illegal robocalls (Chinese)
• Headlines | Hi, Alexa. How do I stop you from listening in on me?
• Headlines | Major phone service providers agree to plan to slow robocallers
• Headlines | What if we all ate a bit less meat?
• Headlines | Why a patient paid a $285 copay for a $40 drug
• Spanish Headlines | VW llama a reparar cientos de miles de vehículos en EEUU

Aug 22, 2019

• Spanish Headlines | El ‘software malicioso’ está en todas partes, incluso en esta pequeña ciudad de Texas
• Headlines | Ransomware attacks are testing resolve of cities across America
• Headlines | The airports with the best and worst TSA wait times
• Headlines | Forgiving the student debt of permanently disabled veterans
• Spanish Headlines | La educación bilingüe se expande en EE. UU. y Luisiana dice ‘oui’
• Spanish Headlines | Apple publica instrucciones de cuidado para nueva Apple Card
• Spanish Headlines | El G7 buscará formas para combatir la desigualdad
• Spanish Headlines | 3 cosas que tienes que hacer antes de los 50 para tener una buena pensión de retiro

Aug 21, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Attention retirees: If your debts are overdue, your Social Security may be detained (Chinese)
• Chinese Headlines | A victim of IDTheft from Brooklyn had been cheated of $7000 and a fake driver ID (Chinese)
• Headlines | Trump takes measures amid mounting economic concerns
• Headlines | H.D.R. is coming to a TV near you
• Headlines | Why aren’t older people using Lyft and Uber?

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