Consumer protection laws in the U.S. include various federal and state laws, each of which governs a particular area of the economy. The government oversees consumer protection through the Federal ...

Many other states ban "unfair" or "abusive" business practices. Democrats are seeking to make New York one of them.

Plaintiff Jessica Murch filed a TCPA suit against Compass and Compass Washington on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in ...

Editor's note: This article, originally published in 2023, was updated March 3, 2025 to reflect changes in the consumer data privacy regulatory landscape. Recent studies reiterate the critical ...

After more than five years of back and forth, Anywhere and the plaintiffs in the Bumpus Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA ... the Registry and invade the privacy of consumers with unwanted ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ended its plans last week to block data brokers from selling consumers’ personal data.

According to a May 2024 Gartner, Inc. study (subscription required), data breaches in application programming interfaces (APIs) are on the rise. As the volume of shared data across organizational ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau remains ... such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which among other things helps ensure the accuracy and privacy of people's credit reports.