Consumer rights are a cornerstone of American freedom, a building block of the American economy, and a foundation of American success. During this National Consumer Protection Week, we renew our ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been a focal point for both regulatory oversight and political debate arguably since its inception. Created in 2010 as a response to the financial ...

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Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

New York urgently needs new legislation to “muscle up” its laws that protect consumers. Following the 2008 financial crisis which led to the Great Recession, Congress created the U.S. Consumer ...

Indiana’s Consumer Data Protection Act (“INCDPA”), passed in 2023, took effect on January 1, 2026. Businesses that fall within the scope of the ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer Watchdog, working with a broad coalition of consumer protection and civil-rights organizations led by the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & ...

In the waning months of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, released a flurry of new consumer protection rules, targeting everything from bank overdraft fees ...

A new report by legal analytics platform Lex Machina has found that class actions nationwide surged to a 10-year high in 2025 "after nearly a decade of stability," driven by a dramatic spike in ...