Consumer Protection

• 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
• CA 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
• Curb unfair overdraft protection practices
• DHS privacy report falls short
• Congress should ban tax patents
• Federal law should be a floor, not a ceiling, for consumer protection
• FCC: Require mobile marketers to disclose consumer data collected
• Keep community investment in consumer agency legislation
• Student loans must be regulated by the CFPA
• Protect car buyers under consumer watchdog agency
• Strike preemptive language in privacy and security bill
• Health reform should provide quick and efficient coverage for Medicaid enrollees
• Wisconsin payday loan cap gains support across state
• Wisconsinites for Responsible Lending
• Ensure “meaningful use” by giving consumers control
• Financial reform coalition tackles big issues
• Shareholders target predatory credit card practices
• “Opt-in” fundamental to consumer overdraft protection
• Advancing financial literacy in Wisconsin
• State regulators must be allowed to protect borrowers
• Loan modifications available for all mortgages, not just subprime
• Wolf in sheep’s clothing: payday lending bill harms consumers
• 36% ‘FAIR’ rate cap bill protects consumers from lending abuses
• A call to action for financial services reform
• Court-supervised loan modifications crucial to stopping foreclosures
• Foreclosure prevention necessary to solve economic recession
• Groups urge co-sponsorship of ‘Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights’
• Bailout must include foreclosure prevention provisions
• President-elect should live up to promises to strengthen privacy
• Consumer coalition lists goals for Obama’s FTC
• Take a ride on the ‘Road to Economic Recovery’
• Road to economic recovery must include help for Main Street
• Consumer groups alert President-Elect Obama to their guiding principles
• Survey reveals California homeowners not being helped as promised
• Video explains significance of the Community Reinvestment Act
• Attacks on Community Reinvestment Act are misguided
• Support court-supervised loan modifications in bailout