The Sad Truth of the FTC’s ‘Historic’ Privacy Win
From today’s Wired: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement last week with an American data broker known to sell location data gathered from hundreds of phone apps…
Californians Could Opt Out Of AI In Proposed Privacy Rules
From today’s Forbes: The five-member CPPA board will discuss and give feedback on the proposed regulations on December 8, and the CPPA expects to finalize the regulations and start the…
10 Things You Need To Know Before Black Friday Sales, According To A Consumer Expert
From today’s Buzzfeed News: 1. Just like you shouldn’t go to the grocery store when you’re hungry, don’t head out to the mall on Black Friday without a gameplan. Woroch…
Biden Administration Rolls Out New Consumer Protections For Student Loan Borrowers
From today’s CNBC News: The Biden administration announced on Tuesday a finalized plan to improve its oversight of higher education institutions and to bolster consumer protections for student loan borrowers.…
SCOTUS Skeptical of Constitutional Challenge to CFPB
From today’s NPR News: n a major Supreme Court case involving the structure of government, a majority of justices seem inclined to uphold the way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…
Supreme Court May Undermine Consumer Rights
From today’s Politico News: Democrats who created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau a decade ago thought they could shield the agency from political pressure by funding it through the Federal…
SCOTUS Rules First Amendment Entitles Web Designer To Refuse Same-Sex wedding Work
From today’s NPR News: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages…
Time To Boycott Netflix? How Consumers Might Shape The Writer’s Strike
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As the writers’ strike stampedes through its second month and the possibility of an actors’ strike looms, it’s time to ask: When — and how…
FTC Alleges Amazon ‘Tricked and Trapped People’ With Prime Subscriptions
From today’s Los Angeles Times: The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, alleging the e-commerce giant duped consumers into signing up for its Prime membership service and deliberately made…
Tesla Data Leak Reveals Thousands of Safety Complaints
From today’s The Guardian: Tesla has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners and has received thousands of customer complaints regarding the carmaker’s driver assistance system,…