A Surprise Billing Law May Have Unintended Effects on Health Care
From today’s NPR News Online: Patients are months away from not having to worry about most surprise medical bills — those extra costs that can amount to hundreds or thousands…
Families Harmed By SoCal Gas Methane Leak Reach $1.8 Billion Settlement
From today’s NPR News Online: Thousands of families sickened and forced from their Los Angeles homes after the nation’s largest-known natural gas leak have reached a settlement of up to…
CFPB Finds That Income Share Agreements Are Credit Products
From today’s Mondaq News Online: On September 7, 2021, the CFPB announced that it had entered into a consent order with an education finance nonprofit (“nonprofit”) in connection with the…
Colorado introduces tight consumer protection law on data privacy
From today’s Digital Journal: Colorado is set to become the third state — alongside Virginia and California — to sign a privacy act into law, marking another step towards consumer…
To Protect Consumer Data, Don’t Do Everything on the Cloud
From today’s Harvard Business Review: When collecting consumer data, there is almost always a risk to consumer privacy. Sensitive information could be leaked unintentionally or breached by bad actors. For…
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Fintechs Need Strong Consumer Protections, Diversity, Inclusion Asserts Key Congressman
From tdoay’s Forbes Magazine: Fintechs need to include strong consumer protections, diversity, and inclusion, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO), chair of the House Financial Services Committee’s panel on consumer protection and…
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Robinhood ‘buried’ info on consumer rights in runup to GameStop saga
From today’s MarketWatch.com: Sen. Elizabeth Warren denounced online broker Robinhood’s practices for disclosing its customer rights in a statement Wednesday, while calling on the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban…
CFPB, muzzled under Trump, prepares to renew tough industry oversight
From today’s Philadelphia Inquirer: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the watchdog created after the 2008 financial meltdown and largely muzzled in the Trump era, is poised to start barking again.…
United Airlines might require its employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine
From today’s New York Times: The chief executive of United Airlines told the company’s employees this week that the carrier — and other businesses — could make the coronavirus vaccine…
U.S. Files Suit Against Facebook, Claiming It Illegally Crushed Competition
From today’s New York Times: The Federal Trade Commission and more than 40 states accused Facebook on Wednesday of becoming a social media monopoly by buying up its rivals to…