The consumer advocacy group polled 1,004 individuals in October 2018.
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The probe, carried out by U.K. consumer advocacy group Which?
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Common Sense, a consumer advocacy group, said it supported the changes.
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The demonstration was organized by Free Press, a consumer advocacy group.
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Your consumer advocacy is admirable & we remain committed to consumer privacy.
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Nathan Proctor leads consumer advocacy group US PIRG's right to repair initiatives.
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Unity is unlikely given the staunch consumer advocacy of lawmakers like Sen.
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This was in the '70s, the consumer-advocacy heyday of Ralph Nader.
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But consumer advocacy groups and internet companies vowed to fight the proposal.
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Fudge is manager of Consumer Advocacy and Community Affairs for the Center for Consumer Advocacy at American Student Assistance®, a private nonprofit dedicated to eliminating college financing as a barrier to education and long-term financial success.
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More than a dozen consumer advocacy groups issued statements denouncing the legal decision.
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Robert Weissman, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, criticized the report.
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Consumer advocacy groups would have the right to sue companies for privacy violations.
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I think you'll see exciting things in consumer advocacy, around health and education.
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The holdout was Tyson Slocum, an official at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
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The holdout was an official of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group in Washington.
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I ran to use my decades of consumer advocacy to help Orange County families.
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The program has drawn criticism from consumer advocacy groups as well as multiple lawsuits.
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The head of consumer advocacy group Center for Auto Safety questioned the regulator's move.
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The consumer advocacy organization received more than 10,000 reports involving this scheme in 2017.
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Jason Levine is executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer advocacy group.
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So, yet another frivolous lawsuit, or worthwhile consumer advocacy in holding companies to their marketing?
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I wholeheartedly concur with Charlotte Slaiman, competition policy counsel at consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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The two-term senator famed for her consumer advocacy has sworn off high-dollar fundraising.
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"Absolutely," said Tyson Slocum, energy director at the Washington-based consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen.
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The Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer advocacy group, described it in more ominous terms.
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Political leaders and consumer advocacy groups have criticized American regulators for inaction against tech companies.
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The solution may have to come from consumer advocacy and better regulation from Medicare itself.
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Activists working for the consumer-advocacy group SumOfUs successfully submitted a proposal seeking the confrontation.
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According to a new consumer advocacy report from the Norwegian Consumer Council, they most certainly are.
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Ed Markey (D-MA) with plenty of fanfare from consumer advocacy groups and the American electorate.
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Consumer advocacy groups, including the National Consumer Law Center, came out in support of the plan.
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Most of the efforts from consumer advocacy groups, like the Consumer Federation of America, have failed.
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Consumer advocacy groups have raised concerns that the merger could raise the cost of wireless services.
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It's important to remember, however, that hospital associations like the MHA are not consumer advocacy groups.
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The consumer-advocacy organization named the Model 3 one of its 10 "top picks" for 2020.
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In April 2017, the Health Issues Centre -- an Australian consumer advocacy group -- conducted its own survey.
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Consumer advocacy groups are also rallying supporters and say they have momentum to preserve the rules.
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Dasani or any number of consumer advocacy groups would publish statements or news releases about it, right?
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The order has galvanized everyone from consumer advocacy groups and attorneys to technology companies and citizen activists.
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Consumer advocacy groups warn the conversion from for-profit to nonprofit status is merely a marketing move.
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"It's going to result in lower airfares," added Charlie Leocha, chairman of consumer advocacy group Travelers United.
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Consumers (or tech-savvy reporters or consumer advocacy groups) cannot easily differentiate between secure and insecure products.
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Tyson Slocum, an official from consumer advocacy firm Public Citizen, was the sole dissenter, the newspaper added.
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In a statement released by Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, Julie Murray lauded the decision.
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There's one common car scam that consumer advocacy organization the National Consumers League flags as particularly egregious.
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Liberal nonprofits and consumer advocacy groups say Kraninger lacks essential knowledge of issues under the CFPB umbrella.
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The consumer advocacy organization posted its review Wednesday on the newest version of Tesla's advanced driver assistance system.
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"Ajit Pai is an embarrassment," said Evan Greer, Deputy Director of consumer advocacy group Fight For the Future.
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The DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge has even produced a handy graphic to illustrate that point.
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As You Sow, a California-based consumer advocacy group, believes that some chocolate has more lead than necessary.
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Consumer advocacy groups around the world — from Europe to Asia — are pressing for an investigation into the slowdown.
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This transparency in turn creates accountability and oversight from privacy-sensitive consumers, competitors, consumer advocacy groups, reportersand regulators.
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They remain a powerful form of consumer advocacy that tests the values and standards businesses purport to represent.
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McDonald's, for example, uses an estimated 36 billion straws every year, according to the consumer advocacy group SumOfUs.
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The IRS for the first time explicitly sought applicants with a consumer advocacy background, according to the letter.
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DeVos has been widely criticized by consumer advocacy groups for hiring department officials with ties to the industry.
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From Betsy Mayotte, director of consumer outreach and compliance, Center for Consumer Advocacy, American Student Assistance, Boston, Mass.
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But as a spate of lawsuits and consumer advocacy efforts show, one person's "natural" is another person's methylisothiazolinone.
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After initially floating the idea of starting some kind of consumer advocacy campaign, they struck upon a solution.
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In short, the consumer advocacy group called it "glitchy" and wondered if it offered any benefits to customers.
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Matthew Kandrach is President of CASE - Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market consumer advocacy organization.
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Research from Kaiser and the consumer advocacy group Families USA found that limitations on specific treatments were common.
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The subpoena targets also include a few pro-net neutrality groups, such as consumer advocacy firm Free Press.
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Most significantly, he has moved to roll back net neutrality rules, a plan widely criticized by consumer advocacy organizations.
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Kraninger's confirmation to lead the CFPB drew criticism from consumer advocacy organizations, largely because of her lack of experience.
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This weekend, ICP's Violent J and Ruby Bruce Lee premiered a new consumer advocacy web series under the moniker.
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Just last week, more than a dozen consumer advocacy groups asked the FTC to investigate Facebook for deceptive practices.
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And in the meantime, Democrats and consumer advocacy groups will likely file lawsuits to try and hinder that process.
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The US has weaker consumer advocacy laws, though it did become legal to unlock your iPhone back in 2015.
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Democrat Elizabeth Warren is a Massachusetts senator known for her consumer advocacy and efforts to weaken big financial institutions.
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The average length of a Pringles chip has reduced by 212 percent, according to the consumer advocacy group Choice.
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The consumer advocacy group often receives calls complaining about the inclusion of their SSN on Medicare cards, she said.
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Matthew Kandrach is president of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), a free-market oriented consumer advocacy group.
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Matthew Kandrach is president of CASE, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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Matthew Kandrach is President of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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But consumer advocacy groups and Democrats say the new rule makes it too hard for borrowers to seek relief.
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Matthew Kandrach is President of CASE - Consumer Action for a Strong Economy - a free-market oriented consumer advocacy group.
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It's not often that consumer advocacy groups and the food industry align in pressuring the FDA to take action.
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Matthew Kandrach is the president of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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Matthew Kandrach is president of CASE – Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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DeVos has been widely criticized by Democrats and consumer advocacy groups for siding with for-profit colleges over students.
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A study by consumer advocacy group Choice in 2015 suggested taxis were 40% more expensive, on average, than UberX.
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The 18 states, as well as environmental, public health and consumer advocacy groups are expected to do the same.
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The responses covered about 72,000 vehicles with the features, according to the consumer advocacy group that publishes Consumer Reports magazine.
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Consumer advocacy groups and activists around the world have long argued that net neutrality is crucial for an open internet.
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The section "is unparalleled in government," said Rachel Weintraub of the Consumer Federation of America, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization.
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The clauses are prevalent in the Trump family's businesses, according to a recent survey by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
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Organisers—a mix of unions, pensioners' associations and consumer-advocacy groups—say that a million demonstrated nationwide (perhaps an exaggeration).
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Opposition came largely from the banking industry, pitting it against consumer advocacy groups, veterans groups and Democratic lawmakers, among others.
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They were the product of detailed consultation between the CFPB and the Center for Responsible Lending, a consumer-advocacy group.
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Gerard Scimeca is vice president of CASE, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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A consumer advocacy group is urging US regulators to investigate Amazon over undisclosed influencer endorsements during Prime Day this year.
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According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and consumer advocacy groups, payday lenders pose a threat to low income borrowers.
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The move was supported by the telecommunications industry but technology companies and consumer advocacy groups have loudly protested the repeal.
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His company campaigned vigorously against the deal, putting him on the same side as more liberal-leaning consumer advocacy groups.
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But according to the airlines and even consumer advocacy experts, that term was being misused when describing the price jumps.
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Mathew Kandrach is the president of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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Genius' case doesn't look particularly strong, John Bergmayer, legal director with the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, tells The Verge.
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The number of consumer-advocacy organizations calling for Tesla to do something about its much-criticized Autopilot system is growing.
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Matthew Kandrach is the president of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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The combined requests would cost ratepayers $2.7 billion a year, according to the Utility Reform Network, a consumer-advocacy group.
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Consumer advocacy groups have also vowed to fight any attempts in the courts or on Capitol Hill to dismantle the agency.
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They were repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December, a move that consumer advocacy groups, lawyers, and technology companies decried.
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The Center for Auto Safety, a consumer advocacy group, last year asked NHTSA to reject Nuro's request, along with General Motors'.
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Thanks to years of griping from consumer-advocacy groups, the FDA is making changes to the regulations that govern food labels.
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This is where consumer advocacy and policy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge start to see flaws.
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Matthew Kandrach is President of CASE, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a non-partisan consumer advocacy group promoting free markets.
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Its case, lofted by years of research and documentation by academics, journalists, and other consumer advocacy groups, is a compelling one.
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The Straphangers Campaign, a consumer advocacy organization that lobbies the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for improvements, is a particular source of ire.
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Consumer advocacy groups, they said, sometimes want the F.T.C. to take on cases that its relatively narrow powers will not permit.
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Despite these steps, consumer advocacy groups said they have spotted listings of essential items with unusual price spikes on the website.
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This could go toward fixing some of the other problems raised by the consumer advocacy groups who prompted the FTC investigation.
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DeVos has drawn criticism from consumer advocacy and education groups over recent decisions they say endanger those who hold student loans.
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Dutch consumer advocacy organization Consumentenbond, meanwhile, found that about half of 150 websites it reviewed started tracking users before establishing consent.
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She started telling her story to anyone who would listen: insurance regulators, consumer advocacy groups, even the state attorney general's office.
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Consumer advocacy groups have praised the agency for what they see as consumer-friendly regulations on issues such as predatory payday lending.
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In the crowded field of Democratic contenders, she seeks to stand out with the expertise gained in a career of consumer advocacy.
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Because these slimes tend to have minimal labeling, the consumer advocacy group is advising parents to approach all premade slimes with caution.
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That was the finding from a report released Wednesday by the Consumer Federation of America, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group.
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"They're marketed to people experiencing financial distress," said Diane Standaert, director of state policy for consumer advocacy group Center for Responsible Lending.
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" Andre Delattre, executive director of U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy group, added that Tester is "standing up for the voices of voters.
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Naylor, a financial policy analyst for consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, has submitted similar measures at other large banks in recent years.
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In the meantime, President Donald Trump has the power to nominate a replacement, which is now raising concerns among consumer advocacy groups.
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Free Press, the digital and consumer advocacy group, issued a report ahead of the meeting on Thursday morning titled Facebook vs. Hate.
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Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, issued its own report on FTTs on Monday in an effort to counter the Chamber's paper.
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"It gives us a much better shot at protecting the CFPB," said Ed Mierzwinski, senior fellow at U.S. PIRG, a consumer advocacy group.
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Other consumer advocacy groups are likely to join the complaint, which is expected to be filed with the FTC as early as Monday.
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With multiple ongoing lawsuits and consumer advocacy groups on alert, however, the fight to bring back net neutrality protections is far from over.
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Chris Lewis, VP of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, says the specific implementation of reforms is going to make all the difference.
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Chilean consumer advocacy group Conadecus appealed the initial regulatory approval last October over concerns it could increase fares and lower quality on routes.
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Chilean consumer advocacy group Conadecus appealed the initial regulatory approval last October over concerns it could increase fares but lower quality on routes.
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"The fact that they sell alcohol at airports or on planes hasn't changed," said Charlie Leocha, chairman of consumer advocacy group Travelers United.
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Anyone, from state regulators to consumer advocacy groups to Lemonade competitors or even interested customers can make edits and contributions to the policy.
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Gerard Scimeca is an attorney and Vice President of CASE - Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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Gerard Scimeca is an attorney and vice president of CASE, Consumer Action for a Strong Economy, a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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Gerard Scimeca is an attorney and Vice President of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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Jessica Curtis, a senior advisor at Community Catalyst, a consumer advocacy group in Boston, said the impact on patients stretches beyond personal finance.
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Yet since then, consumer advocacy groups have filed lawsuits against the company for failing to disclose that the software would throttle old iPhones.
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Gerard Scimeca is an attorney and Vice President of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE) a free-market oriented consumer advocacy organization.
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"It would put consumers at the mercy of phone and cable companies," said Craig Aaron, president of the consumer advocacy group Free Press.
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"This is a huge case of fraud," said Beth Givens, executive director the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit San Diego-based consumer advocacy organization.
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Consumer advocacy groups could also help politically conscious Americans reward companies that abide by codes of conduct and boycott those firms that do not.
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Consumer advocacy groups, including Choice, have previously called for a "full cost-benefit analysis" of the TPP to be conducted by the Productivity Commission.
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Twenty-two consumer advocacy groups are accusing Google of marketing apps toward children that are not age-appropriate or that illegally collect their data.
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Kimbrell added that Bayer should "be careful" because consumer advocacy groups such as CFS will be watching to see how the new owner operates.
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These mentions, however, are often presented as testimonials rather than advertisements, a practice that at least one consumer advocacy group has claimed is deceptive.
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Wednesday&aposs action comes more than four years after the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to stop sales of teething products.
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Mike Litt is the consumer campaign director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), a consumer advocacy organization originally conceived by Ralph Nader.
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The company has also found itself fending off a number of lawsuits over the years from consumer advocacy groups concerned about its product labeling.
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"Sometimes you've got to know when to fold 'em," Harold Feld, senior vice president of DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, told Motherboard.
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BUSINESS An article on Wednesday about the revision of debt-collection rules by federal regulators misidentified a consumer advocacy organization by its previous name.
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"It can feel a bit futile as an individual," said Liz Coll, the head of digital change at Consumers International, a consumer advocacy group.
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The consumer advocacy group said Thursday that it can no longer recommend Microsoft laptops or tablets because of poor reliability compared to other brands.
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This comes after campaigners working for the consumer-advocacy group SumOfUs submitted a successful proposal asking shareholders to press Apple for such a description.
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A coalition of child and consumer advocacy groups on Wednesday accused Facebook of illegally collecting data on children with its new Messenger Kids app.
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FTC Chairman Joseph Simons responded by planning a public workshop with consumer advocacy groups, members of the video game industry, and their parent organizations.
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Claire Gartland, Consumer Protection Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a leading consumer advocacy group, echoed the concerns about hyper-local, location-based marketing.
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"We would like to see an immediate review of competition in the banking sector," a spokesman for consumer advocacy group CHOICE told Reuters on Thursday.
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"The more money you have, the more of a chance you have of being audited," said Dave Du Val, chief consumer advocacy officer at TaxAudit.
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Consumer advocacy groups and Democrats are concerned that Kraninger's appointment will only do more damage to the CFPB than what's already been done under Mulvaney.
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According to advice from consumer advocacy group, Choice, what happens to customers left holding the gift card depends on how they paid for their items.
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A number of consumer advocacy groups, including Americans for Financial Reform, the Debt Collective and the Project on Predatory Student Lending, have endorsed the legislation.
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How, they wonder, could someone whose reputation is built on consumer advocacy have represented a company seeking to avoid paying for retired miners' health care?
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The FDA investigation, conducted in August, was obtained through a public information request filed by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen and released publicly today.
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But it's been loudly criticized by multiple technology companies and consumer advocacy groups, who say net neutrality is essential for an open and competitive internet.
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"The rule that we're expecting will do a lot to combat the debt cycle," said Karl Frisch, head of Allied Progress, a consumer advocacy group.
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Earlier this month, two consumer advocacy groups called on the Federal Trade Commission and the California Department of Motor Vehicles to investigate Tesla's Autopilot technology.
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Competitors and consumer advocacy groups have been critical of a deal that will create an entity 10 times larger than the industry's No. 2 player.
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While regulators occasionally meet with consumer advocacy or industry groups, it is unusual for a Fed board member to meet with an individual firm's employees.
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"Usage caps on wired broadband connections have always been a joke," Matt Wood, Policy Director for consumer advocacy group Free Press told Motherboard over email.
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Consumer Reports now recommends Tesla's Model 2000 and Model S sedans because the vehicles have become more reliable, the consumer-advocacy organization said on Thursday.
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Consumer Reports now recommends Tesla's Model 3 and Model S sedans because the vehicles have become more reliable, the consumer-advocacy organization said on Thursday.
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"Under COPPA, the children's privacy law, the FTC had authority to impose tens of billions in fines against Google," said consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
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Consumer advocacy groups, including the American Heart Association, have said that the policy could prevent patients from seeking care when they have life-threatening emergencies.
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Warren, whose political career grew out of her consumer advocacy, has talked as much or more about the legacy of redlining than any other candidate.
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One way to keep premiums down, say industry experts and consumer advocacy groups, is to compare quotes from different insurers, ideally every year or two.
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It has one hour after you request a lift on the freeze, though it could take just minutes, according to consumer advocacy group US PIRG.
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"There's an opportunity for consumers to be confused," said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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Consumer advocacy groups, including Veterans Education Success and Vietnam Veterans of America, are now urging the Education Department to automatically discharge the debt of these individuals.
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On Wednesday, two Washington-based consumer advocacy groups filed a lawsuit seeking details about Kraninger's work at OMB, including travel, pay and expenses she had incurred.
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"WhatsApp users should be shocked and upset," Claire Gartland, Consumer Protection Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a leading US consumer advocacy group, told Motherboard.
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Then there&aposs the problem of actually swallowing loose bristles—and claims from that type of injury can be found at the Consumer Advocacy website saferproducts.
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" Fitbit also highlighted to CNBC a separate study from independent consumer-advocacy organization Consumer Reports which has found "the heart rate readings to be quite accurate.
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"I think 'Parasite' as a theme is really resonant in our elections and our economy," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group.
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The consumer advocacy group tested the popular toy, sold in a variety of stores, and found two at retail giant Target that were laden with lead.
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Banks worry that the full-court review will prolong confusion about the CFPB's powers, while consumer advocacy groups say it could shore up the bureau's independence.
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"It's a massive deal concentrating a huge amount of media power under one corporate umbrella," said Craig Aaron, president of the consumer advocacy group Free Press.
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Hailing from the UK and Italy, the researchers enlisted the help of U.S. Right to Know, a consumer advocacy group that regularly criticizes the food industry.
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For example, consumer advocacy groups, such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have called for restrictive privacy rules for connected vehicles.
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"Big cable and its allies are predictably opposed to the FCC's action," said John Bergmayer, a senior staff attorney at the Public Knowledge consumer advocacy group.
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Broadband, cable and telecommunications companies have come out in support of Pai's proposals, but privacy and consumer advocacy groups and some internet companies oppose the plan.
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"The real fight is between industries, not Republicans and Democrats," said Shawn Gremminger, the senior director of federal relations at the consumer advocacy group Families USA.
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But the bigger problem with YouTube, as consumer advocacy groups have argued, isn't just that YouTube can be inappropriate for kids — it's actually breaking the law.
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Joe Rinzel is a spokesman for Americans for a Modern Economy, a consumer advocacy group focused on reducing the number of laws governing the U.S. economy.
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The consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen issued a report the same day that the Chamber issued its paper in order to counter the business group's arguments.
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"It's an incredible amount of power in one company's hands," said Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, a consumer advocacy group that has opposed the deal.
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It's clear that McConnell has no desire to take the bill up, and any floor speeches or letters from consumer advocacy groups probably won't change his mind.
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Wyden's proposal would give consumer advocacy groups the right to sue companies for privacy violations, in a bid to ramp up the pressure on the tech industry.
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Opposition to ILC applications is one issue that unites bankers with consumer advocacy and reinvestment groups, which tend to be on opposite sides of financial regulatory issues.
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Charles Duan is the director of the Patent Reform Project at Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group that promotes the public interest in technology policy and law.
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Competitors such as NBCUniversal, Twenty-First Century Fox and Walt Disney could find that their content could be put at a disadvantage, some consumer advocacy groups suggested.
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Pai released about a dozen actions in the last week, many buried in the agency's website and not publicly announced, stunning consumer advocacy groups and telecom analysts.
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The deadline for Congress to kill a rule imposing new requirements on so-called payday lenders has come and gone, according to consumer advocacy groups tracking it.
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A woman representing a consumer advocacy group dressed as Rich Uncle Pennybags from the Monopoly board game and crashed the former Equifax CEO's Senate hearing on Wednesday.
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Quarles will be closely scrutinized by Democrats and consumer advocacy groups who are worried that deregulation will allow banks to return to their pre-crisis risky behavior.
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Charles Leocha, chairman of Travelers United, a consumer advocacy group, argued that it was disingenuous for American to put customers at the center of its legal stance.
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Britain's Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), a consumer advocacy group, reports the number of breweries in the UK hit an all-time high last year, at 1,483.
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The suit, filed by AARP, the consumer advocacy group that represents older Americans, argues that the programs violate anti-discrimination laws aimed at protecting workers' medical information.
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The inclusion of association health plans in the Senate bill caught consumer advocacy groups off guard, and they are still struggling to make sense of the provision.
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Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, issued a report Wednesday saying the deregulation push has been about rewarding corporate elites such as automakers and Wall Street firms.
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"It's a fact of life after every disaster that there's a shortage of experienced adjusters," said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a consumer advocacy group.
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He released about a dozen actions in the past week, many buried on the agency's website and not publicly announced, stunning consumer advocacy groups and telecom analysts.
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The new partnership, which has been endorsed by a number of consumer advocacy groups including Fight for the Future and Consumer Watchdog, is called Focus on the User.
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This policy stands is stark contrast to US law, where it's generally up to consumer advocacy groups and environmental activists to prove that a company is causing harm.
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Earlier this month, the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen submitted a petition to request that the FDA "immediately withdraw the approval of all medications containing hydroxyprogesterone caproate" (Makena).
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What to watch: NHTSA leadership is currently reviewing feedback submitted during the October public comment period by automakers, testing equipment suppliers, automotive safety councils and consumer advocacy groups.
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At least one consumer advocacy group criticized the change and said that it could allow phone companies to discriminate against messages and harm both consumers and free speech.
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a consumer advocacy group, had tested a number of baby products and found formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, both potential carcinogens, in trace amounts.
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"Losing that head-to-head competition could drive up prices for those on a more limited income," said Gene Kimmelman, president of Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group.
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A California poll by consumer advocacy group United Policyholders found that computer scoring was a reason for a significant number of policy cancellations in the last few years.
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Stephen R. Weissman is the former associate director for policy at the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute and former legislative representative for Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization.
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Paying close attention to that tiny font on the side of the package can sometimes be an eye-opener: For instance, just last week, consumer advocacy organization Which?
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The F.C.C.'s change to the UHF discount, however, is being challenged in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by consumer advocacy groups.
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After a signature from Trump, expected soon, the resolution will abruptly end a years-long fight that has included multiple federal regulators, consumer advocacy groups, and financial lobbyists.
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"Arizona has been the wild west of robot car testing with virtually no regulations in place," said Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit consumer advocacy group, in a statement.
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A German consumer advocacy group, Verbraucherzentrale NRW, believes the buttons have made it too easy to buy Amazon products, and brought a case against Amazon to the German court.
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Consumer advocacy groups are concerned about the change in leadership: Pai doesn't support strengthened privacy rules for consumers, he doesn't support net neutrality, and he does support big mergers.
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"Bandwidth caps are about monetizing scarcity and avoiding the cost of upgrading the network," Harold Feld, senior vice president of DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge told Wired.
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The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen is calling for tougher enforcement after finding that the number and size of drug company settlements decreased significantly in the last two years.
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The cost, according to consumer advocacy groups like Public Citizen, is actually closer to $161 million—an amount manufacturers can sometimes make back within days of introducing a product.
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The creation of such a giant cable and Internet company upsets consumer advocacy groups, which say a lack of competition has led to increased prices and poor customer service.
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"Clarity Money's technology and team are focused on the promise of automating consumer advocacy around financial matters, which is an important and compelling vision," Soros said in a statement.
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — It began with menacing phone calls, strange malfunctions of the office computers, and men in parked cars photographing the entrance to the small consumer advocacy group's offices.
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The proposal was brought by SumOfUs, a consumer advocacy group, after Apple faced criticism that it deferred to Beijing when removing a controversial app during the Hong Kong protests.
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Patients for Biologics Safety & Access (PBSA), a coalition comprising more than twenty patient and consumer advocacy organizations, is dedicated to bringing the patient voice to the biosimilar approval process.
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"But the rule didn't do anything about the other two problems identified by consumer advocacy groups: reordering transactions and the allowed maximum number of overdrafts in a day," he said.
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Crosthwaite's move follows a year of lawmakers and consumer advocacy groups pushing to have e-cigarettes more heavily regulated after studies showed skyrocketing numbers of young people using the products.
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Gene Kimmelman, president and CEO of consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former chief counsel for the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, is also expected to testify, the spokesman said.
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And unlike Silicon Valley, which at least pretends to respond to consumer advocacy groups, negative press, and the threat of regulatory pressure, AT&T and Verizon largely act with impunity.
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Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE places hearing aid prices anywhere between $AU$1,000 and $10,000, if you're not eligible for a basic free device through a body like Australian Hearing.
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The 25-person board represents a slew of consumer advocacy, legal aid and fair lending groups that have opposed Mulvaney's efforts to ease the CFPB's regulation of banks and lenders.
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The 6900-person board represents a slew of consumer advocacy, legal aid and fair lending groups that have opposed Mulvaney's efforts to ease the CFPB's regulation of banks and lenders.
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Dozens of consumer advocacy groups are asking lawmakers and regulators to put a halt to Facebook's plans to launch a cryptocurrency over concerns ranging from privacy issues to national sovereignty.
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The report, which was done by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was only released publicly only last week after consumer advocacy groups submitted freedom of information requests for the document.
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But the new report, released on Tuesday by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a consumer advocacy group, found that race was also an important factor in deciding where banks lend.
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"The penalties are bad enough, but the real risk is waiting for coverage to begin," said Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center, a consumer advocacy and policy group.
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It's an invitation-only panel of experts from across government, industry and the consumer advocacy community who will vote in regular surveys on the most pressing issues in the field.
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A coalition of more than 20 consumer advocacy groups is expected to file a complaint with federal officials on Monday claiming that YouTube has been violating a children's privacy law.
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"I don't think he understands the dimensions and implications underlying the consumer privacy threat," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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The decision was a blow for Democrats and consumer advocacy groups who had rallied to English's cause, fearing the agency will be weakened by Mulvaney, one of its fiercest critics.
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Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, brought these celebrities' undisclosed ads to the FTC's attention months ago, and has been monitoring these celebs since they received the letters back in March.
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"We'd encourage consumers not to rely on a possible extension, but to plan for the deadline," said Cheryl Fish-Parcham, private insurance program director at Families USA, a consumer advocacy group.
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"I don't think there's ever been another utility implicated in as many deaths as PG&E has been," says Mindy Spatt, spokesperson for consumer advocacy group The Utility Reform Network (TURN).
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Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen on Friday filed the first of what is expected to be a series of lawsuits challenging the legality of President Trump's emergency declaration, BuzzFeed News reports.
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Student debt companies have requested a review of the agency rule, but a group of 18 consumer advocacy organizations signed a letter asking FCC Chairman Ajit Pai not to revisit it.
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Rollaway accidents are particularly dangerous, and the investigation and recall are taking too long, Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, a consumer advocacy group, said on Tuesday.
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The consumer advocacy organization studied over 260 real estate agent and broker websites in four U.S. cities, as well as surveyed over 2,000 Americans on their home buying and selling perceptions.
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We were pleased to see the start of this review after writing FHFA Director Mel Watt, along with many other consumer advocacy groups, in support of credit scoring competition in 2014.
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The judge's ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by three consumer advocacy groups that argued Kentucky HEALTH runs counter to Medicaid's objective of providing the poor with access to health care.
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A consumer advocacy group is asking US regulators to investigate Amazon, alleging that some of its influencers did no correctly disclose that they were being paid for endorsing Prime Day deals.
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"I ignore mailings and calls from my health insurer — I get them all the time," said Eliot Fishman, a senior director of health policy at Families USA, a consumer advocacy group.
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AARP, the consumer advocacy group for older Americans, sued the federal government in 2016, arguing that the rules governing the programs violated anti-discrimination laws aimed at protecting workers' medical information.
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Anthony Wright, the executive director of Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group that favors single-payer, says the journey to such a system is instead more like climbing a mountain.
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"It has to be clear to the reasonable consumer that the content they're viewing is an advertisement," said Bonnie Patten, executive director of Truth in Advertising, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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Its passage represents a victory for Democrats, technology companies and consumer advocacy groups who have loudly protested the FCC's repeal of the rules, but it may only be a symbolic victory.
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The Reuters report prompted a barrage of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and consumer advocacy groups, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who urged the CFPB to launch a full-scale probe.
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But that doesn't mean that consumer advocacy agencies like the CFPB don't have a role to play in figuring out how the hell half of America's sensitive data was exposed to hackers.
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"In many states, facilities-based providers have opted out of offering Lifeline-supported service altogether," Phillip Berenbroick, a senior policy counsel at consumer advocacy firm Public Knowledge, wrote in a blog post.
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"Our definition of cost is what it costs the families when the home is built poorly," said Leslie Chapman-Henderson, president of the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, a consumer advocacy group.
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Health Access California, a consumer advocacy group, estimates that the state government could lose $22bn in federal funding annually if Obamacare is gutted; some 5m Californians could find themselves without health coverage.
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Tech companies, civil liberties groups, and consumer advocacy organizations filed public briefs in June supporting Facebook's challenge and arguing that users should have a right to challenge search warrants for their information.
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Consumer advocacy group Center for Auto Safety raised concerns about fires after collisions involving both brands, saying last week that 2202 fire complaints were filed with U.S. safety regulators since June 2628.
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"Monsanto is kind of the poster child for a larger movement against GMO," said Katherine Paul, associate director of the Organic Consumers Association, a consumer advocacy organization and longtime critic of Monsanto.
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Julie Ryder Lammers is Managing Director of Consumer Advocacy and Government Relations at the American Student Assistance The views expressed by authors are their own and not the views of The Hill.
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That same year, the consumer advocacy group Digital Citizens Alliance published a report that claimed that leading torrent sites like Pirate Bay generate upwards of $4 million per year from advertising revenue.
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" Jeffrey Chester, the executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer advocacy group, said the deal made it clear that the "initial era of big data driven television is here.
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"It makes us very nervous that regionalization is going to accelerate coal use," said Matthew Freedman, the staff lawyer for the Utility Reform Network, a consumer-advocacy group based in San Francisco.
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"For all of this talk about action, all of these months after the data breach Congress hasn't done anything," said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director at U.S. PIRG, the consumer advocacy group.
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But she then pulled out of the potentially profitable arrangement after speaking with employees of the National Consumer Law Center, a consumer advocacy group that defends the poor and other disadvantaged people.
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"These plans lacked the necessary transparency that would give consumers an idea of what they were actually purchasing," said Ashley Blackburn, a senior policy analyst with Community Catalyst, a consumer advocacy group.
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The court found that the petition, filed in 2015 by Flyers Rights, a consumer advocacy group, had identified a genuine safety issue caused by the combination of shrinking seats and larger passengers.
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Financial disclosure documents obtained by nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen reveal the list of companies from which Smith must recuse himself from involvement in investigation numbers 120—and the names are huge.
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Democrats and consumer advocacy groups are mounting resistance to her nomination, which they see as another step in the administration's ongoing effort to undermine the federal government's regulatory apparatus and diminish the CFPB.
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In September a group of large banks and consumer-advocacy organisations in Britain published a draft voluntary industry code, saying that victims of "authorised push-payment fraud" should be reimbursed in some circumstances.
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The Redmond software giant has actively stirred the pot in several legal cases against Google search, in both the U.S. and Europe, through its own lobbying and the dogged consumer advocacy group FairSearch.
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The FTC's announcement comes only weeks after U.S. consumer advocacy groups and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent complaint letters to the FTC, urging the regulators to investigate YouTube for potential COPPA violations.
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In fact, Tesla's Model 23 compact sedan is so beloved by its owners that Consumer Reports, the product-testing consumer advocacy group, has named the vehicle the "most satisfying car" on the market.
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"The best agencies to contact would likely be local or state ones, such as the local franchising authority or a state PUC," recommends John Bergmayer, Special Counsel for consumer advocacy firm Public Knowledge.
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Eight consumer advocacy groups are calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Google and Facebook over what they see as "misleading" tactics that push consumers to give up their personal data.
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"It definitely would be unusual to see the merger approval within the state undone based on the merged entity's failure to keep its promises," argued Matt Wood of consumer-advocacy group Free Press.
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"It's bad enough that the lack of broadband competition forces Americans to pay sky-high prices," Harold Feld, senior vice president at DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
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"There are still questions about the battery of testing people may receive and out-of-network testing," said Cheryl Fish-Parcham, the director of access initiatives at Families USA, a consumer advocacy group.
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"There are still questions about the battery of testing people may receive and out-of-network testing," said Cheryl Fish-Parcham, the director of access initiatives at Families USA, a consumer advocacy group.
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Harold Feld, a senior vice president at the left-leaning consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said Mr. Pai had translated his visibility "into enormous influence and a much brighter future" in Republican circles.
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In dueling statements released today, Republican commissioners claimed the deal was in the economic interest of consumers and would improve wireless coverage and competition, ideas that have been disputed by consumer advocacy groups.
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But while their message got a sympathetic ear from several high profile pensions and consumer advocacy groups, in practice it hasn't been so easy for the finance world to dump the gun industry.
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"The Republican commissioners didn't get the memo from President Trump about the 'Buy America, Hire America' administration," said Lori Wallach, director of the Global Trade Watch at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
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Blackburn's chances weren't helped when consumer advocacy groups like Fight For the Future placed giant billboards in Blackburn's home district naming and shaming the lawmaker for selling consumers out on net neutrality and privacy.
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"He wants to take away the bureau's independence and then make it harder for it to do its job," said Mike Litt of the United States Public Interest Research Groups, a consumer advocacy organization.
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Goodrich noted that CMS had "received numerous letters from national patient and consumer advocacy groups supporting the release of these ratings because it improves the transparency and accessibility of hospital quality information," she wrote.
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"In my mind it doesn't mean much when he has so many other obvious conflicts to tackle," said Lisa Gilbert, director of the Congress Watch division at Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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"On a technicality it leaves some wiggle room for some really creative attempts at zero-rating that can be challenged after the fact," said Laura Tribe, the executive director of consumer advocacy group OpenMedia.
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Specialty finance firms like J.G. Wentworth and payday lenders were under scrutiny by the CFPB, but the future of that effort is unclear after on-going court attempts to dismantle the consumer advocacy agency.
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Claypool, who studies corporate power at the nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, linked Amazon's strategy back to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which protected corporate political spending as a form of speech.
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Phillip Berenbroick, counsel for government affairs at DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, pointed out that in 2014, the Government Accountability Office found that the government-wide improper payment rate was 4.5 percent.
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Last year, after a Norwegian consumer advocacy group published a paper detailing how tech companies abuse dark pattern design, a coalition of eight U.S. watchdog groups called on the FTC to do just that.
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"There won't be a death spiral, but the people who really lose in that scenario are basically middle class people who are sick," said Michael Miller, policy director of consumer advocacy group Community Catalyst.
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"It would be effectively a big rollback in the consumer protection enforcement authorities," said Christopher Peterson, director of financial services and a senior fellow at the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group.
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However, "the rulemaking for this law has never taken place," said Charles Leocha, co-founder of the consumer advocacy group Travelers United, with the policy tied up in bureaucratic red tape since its passage.
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When Barnette moved to Marfa, he worked in consumer advocacy, educating the community on the Farm Bill, and eventually opened a waffles, shrimp and grits joint called the Miniature Rooster with a chef pal.
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But in each of these cases, consumer advocacy groups and politicians have cried out, asking for the only agency with the authority to protect user privacy, the FTC, to be tougher on these companies.
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"The first draft of that template legislation was an adaptation of what they did for cars," said Nathan Proctor, the director of the Right to Repair Campaign for US PIRG, a consumer advocacy organization.
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Mark Toney, who directs the utility consumer advocacy group the Utility Reform Network (TURN), said shutting off power would harm vulnerable people, including those who rely on electricity to power life-saving medical equipment.
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Over the first three quarters of 2016, 626 large banks took in $8.4 billion from overdraft and "non-sufficient funds" fees, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of consumer advocacy groups.
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Kraninger has "neither experience as a regulator nor expertise in consumer financial issues," Bartlett Naylor, a financial policy advocate at consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, told the LA Times at the time of her nomination.
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The decision prompted immediate backlash from Democrats and consumer advocacy groups, who argue that the department's use of students' earnings fails to take into account how expensive many programs at fraudulent for-profit colleges were.
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"Our preference would be that the process requires an active choice, that you must respond to an invitation for a seamless enrollment," said Joe Baker, president of the Medicare Rights Center, a consumer advocacy organization.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two U.S. consumer advocacy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called Tesla Inc's "deceptive and misleading" use of the name Autopilot for its assisted-driving technology.
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"The best outcomes happen when birth is left undisturbed and it proceeds naturally," said Emiliano Chavira, a California-based maternal fetal medicine specialist and the medical director of ImprovingBirth, a maternal health consumer advocacy organization.
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The ruling could have wide implications for other tech companies that operate similarly walled-off online storefronts, said Gene Kimmelman, president of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former Justice Department antitrust official.
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"From an environment and public health perspective, this has the potential to be a disaster, plain and simple," said Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at Public Citizen, a left-leaning consumer advocacy group.
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The smoke likely does not pose a health risk beyond mild irritation for most healthy adults in Houston, said Adrian Shelley, director of the Texas office of the non-profit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
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U.S. PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy group, is sending a letter to the Justice Department Monday to urge that the deal be blocked, as is a group of consumer advocates, led by Open Markets.
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The move came following a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission filed by close to two-dozen consumer advocacy groups, which accused the mobile giant of not ensuring app compliance with federal children's privacy laws.
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Consumer advocacy groups and Democrats in the Senate have advocated for the rules, arguing that they're necessary for consumer privacy and that they prevent telecommunications companies from taking advantage of lower-socioeconomic and minority communities.
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Consumer advocacy groups like Free Press, Demand Progress and Fight for the Future, have been singling out lawmakers who have either supported the F.C.C. order or have not spoken up in favor of restoring rules.
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The Communications Workers of America (CWA) and a group of consumer advocacy groups sent letters to the country's largest providers on Tuesday asking them to do more to ensure internet access as the coronavirus spreads.
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The number of public enforcement cases announced in 2018 was down 80% from the bureau's peak in 2015, according to a report published in March by the Consumer Federation of America, a consumer advocacy group.
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"Olive Garden needs to meet consumer demand by sourcing more ingredients from local farmers and paying all workers, including those in its supply chain, fairly," said Elizabeth Jardim, director of consumer advocacy at Green America.
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"Without class-action lawsuits to keep things fair, corporate bad actors will get off scott-free when harming their customers," said Lisa Gilbert, vice president of legislative affairs for the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
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Its revised circular for Black Friday had eight pages of deals, less than a quarter of the size last year, according to Edgar Dworsky, founder and editor of Boston-based consumer advocacy website Consumer World.
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Representatives for fintech companies praised the report, while a consumer advocacy group voiced concern about several aspects, including the payday lending rule, federal fintech charter, and valid-when-made recommendations stemming from the Madden case.
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"The average American can't cut million-dollar checks to their elected officials," said Andre Delattre, executive director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a left-leaning consumer advocacy group organizing for campaign finance reform.
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In just over a month that the GDPR has been in effect, plenty of action has been taken by privacy activists and consumer advocacy groups against these big tech companies breaching the trust of their users.
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The non-profit consumer advocacy group Center for Auto Safety said last month 5723 fire complaints had been filed with U.S. safety regulators since June 12 and urged an immediate recall of nearly 3 million vehicles.
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"The breach of your system has actually created more business opportunities for you," Warren, a Democrat known for her consumer advocacy, told former Equifax Chief Executive Officer Richard Smith during his second congressional grilling this week.
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In fact, if it were to have made claims about accuracy and not updated them before the phone released this year, it would be on the hook to answer to that difference by consumer advocacy groups.
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In a report issued earlier this year, consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG warned that the continuing rise in auto debt is putting many consumers in a financially vulnerable position, which could worsen during an economic downturn.
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Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that is fighting the Chamber on the fiduciary issue, attempted to contact all of the small business owners quoted (skipping those who actually are chamber lobbyists around the country).
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While a consumer advocacy group says "toys are safer than ever before," experts warn of the potential chemical hazards of slime, toys with possible choking hazards and ones that could violate children's privacy by sharing data.
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While it's difficult to predict what a Trump administration will mean for higher education, here's our Consumer Advocacy Center's wish list of executive and legislative priorities in the best interest of the higher education consumer: 28503.
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Mr. Wheeler's last act as chairman could be overseeing the review of AT&T's $85 billion bid for Time Warner, a mega-media deal that has already elicited protests from some politicians and consumer advocacy groups.
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Consumer advocacy groups have generally applauded the work of both the CFPB and the states on consumer protections, but some Republican attorneys general have sided with Trump on the need to rein in the federal watchdog.
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The listing also clearly shows a "not for resale label," which is alarming, said Sarah Sorscher, deputy director of regulatory affairs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, a consumer advocacy group.
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In total, as the chairman of the F.C.C., Mr. Pai released about a dozen actions in the last week, many buried in the agency's website and not publicly announced, stunning consumer advocacy groups and telecom analysts.
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Elizabeth Warren refused to take a lucrative legal job in 25 after a consumer advocacy group raised concerns about the work, earning the fury of an attorney who had sought to hire her, court documents show.
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"Whether your information was stolen in the Equifax breach or not, the best thing you can do is get credit freezes at all three," said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director at consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG.
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Insurers are supposed to determine auto-insurance rates in California based primarily on a customer's driving safety record, miles driven annually and years of experience, said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group.
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These contracts effectively provide regulatory cover by transferring the F.C.C. license to another company, or name, while still allowing the seller to operate the business, said Craig Aaron, president of the consumer advocacy group Free Press.
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On the other side are consumer advocacy groups in Europe, backed by some national data protection agencies, who are skeptical that Europeans' privacy rights will be upheld when their personal data is transmitted to the United States.
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In a joint letter dated Wednesday, more than 100 unions, pension funds, activist investors, state treasurers and consumer advocacy groups urged Acting U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissioner Michael Piwowar not to delay the implementation of the rule.
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The decision came on the heels of a new report from the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen about the number of lawmakers who left Congress in 2018 and went on to work as lobbyists and consultants.
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WASHINGTON – A consumer advocacy group filed the first lawsuit late Friday challenging President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, suing on behalf of Texas landowners and an environmental group who say they'll be affected by border wall construction.
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Consumer advocacy groups, lawyers, technology companies, and citizen activists have long decried this move — which was decided in a vote by the Federal Communications Commission in December — as a fatal blow to an open and competitive internet.
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The Center for Auto Safety, a consumer advocacy group, petitioned the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in November to investigate the issue after it said at least 50 owners had reported stalling in new Pacifica minivans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two lawmakers and six consumer advocacy groups on Thursday sought to join a court case involving the U.S. consumer financial watchdog as worries that President Donald Trump will dismantle the agency reached a fever pitch.
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"These guys were the people behind the private securitization market that crashed in the crisis, and now they're trying to revive it," says Marcus Stanley, policy director of Americans for Financial Reform, a consumer advocacy non-profit.
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"This is in essence creating a data broker division to Disney, expanding what Disney already knows, which is a lot," said Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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Cell phone merger The acquisition of Sprint by T-Mobile got official approval from US federal officials, a major win as the two companies seek to complete a $26 billion merger amid resistance from consumer advocacy groups.
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A recent independent analysis confirmed what industry experts and consumer advocacy groups have already argued: Republican changes to key provisions of former President Barack Obama's health care law will do more harm to the already struggling system.
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Travel and consumer advocacy groups have applauded the DOT's tentative decision to allow Norwegian Air to fly to the U.S. because, they say, mergers among U.S. airlines in recent years have greatly reduced competition in the industry.
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Public Citizen, the consumer advocacy group he founded in 1971, filed testimony opposing the rule change, he said, but consumer groups were outgunned by their opponents, backed by corporations that could pay an army of expensive lawyers.
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"I think free freezes are good, but not when it's part of a bill with other things that puts consumers and the economy at risk," said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director at consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG.
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington, D.C.-based food watchdog and consumer advocacy group, released its annual "Xtreme Eating Awards" Monday, a list they call the biggest "nutritional nightmares" in the restaurant industry.
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"I think this is a reasonable proposal as long as there are no monkey tricks at the P.U.C.," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit consumer-advocacy organization, referring to the state's Public Utilities Commission.
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Internet access proponents campaigned against Blackburn ahead of the midterms, with consumer advocacy group Fight For the Future even buying out billboards in Blackburn's home district detailing her connections with Big Telecom and legacy on net neutrality.
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Cases like the FTC's settlement with Cure Encapsulations should make it easier for consumers to trust online reviews on sites like Amazon, according to Paul Alan Levy, an attorney who works for the consumer-advocacy group Public Citizen.
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But that is a facade - as one consumer advocacy group found out when it checked the Chamber's claims of grassroots support for its battle to stop the U.S. Department of Labor's new "best interest" standard for retirement advice.
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Getting rid of the proactive examinations is "literally going to be putting service members back in the crosshairs of predatory lenders," said Scott Astrada, the federal advocacy director at the consumer advocacy group the Center for Responsible Lending.
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"I still think that people's rights were violated by not being able to participate in the proceeding," said Logan Atkinson Burke, executive director of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, a nonprofit consumer-advocacy organization based in New Orleans.
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"DirecTV, for instance, might favor Time Warner content, crowding out or refusing to carry alternative and independent programming that viewers might prefer," John Bergmayer, senior counsel at DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
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Cordray, a Democrat, made an effort to recruit broadly, bringing in financial-industry veterans and former prosecutors, but Warren's creation inevitably attracted Warren acolytes and veterans of consumer-advocacy groups, many of whom landed in the enforcement division.
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"It would completely contradict everything that the FCC said in the 'Restoring Internet Freedom Order' (RIFO) repealing net neutrality," wrote Harold Feld, a senior vice president at the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, in a recent blog post.
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Lyft, Volvo, Intel and Mercedes-Benz, New York City and nonprofit consumer advocacy organizations like the Center for Auto Safety all weighed in on new safety standards for self-driving vehicles before the public comment period closed Wednesday.
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"It will require a doubling down, a dramatic increase in education — which is exactly the opposite of what this administration has done," said Leslie Dach, executive director of Protect Our Care, a consumer advocacy group aligned with Democrats.
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Main opponents: Katie Porter, a consumer advocacy lawyer and professor at the University of California, Irvine; Dave Min, a law professor at U.C., Irvine; and Brian Forde, who worked as a science adviser in the Obama White House.
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" As a result of the Norwegian Consumer Council report, eight consumer advocacy groups are calling on the FTC to "investigate the misleading and manipulative tactics of Google and Facebook in steering users to "consent" to privacy-invasive default settings.
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Even if you spot a problem quickly, that money will be missing from your checking account until the bank completes its investigation, Beth Givens, executive director of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a consumer advocacy group, told CNBC earlier this year.
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It's tempting to cheer on Verizon for its newfound consumer advocacy—but it should also strike us all as more than a bit unsettling that titanic corporations are having a tug-of-war about the phones in our pockets.
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In another, activist investor Bart Naylor, a financial policy analyst for consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said he has filed a shareholder resolution calling on the bank to study breaking up its business in the wake of the scandal.
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Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, petitioned for a ban against the mesh products in 2011 and then testified before an FDA advisory committee earlier this year, according to Dr. Michael Carome, director of the nonprofit's Health Research Group.
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Starting that year, individuals with incomes exceeding $500,000 ($750,000 for couples) will pay higher Medicare surcharges — 85 percent of their program costs, up from 80 percent under current law, according to the Medicare Rights Center, a consumer advocacy group.
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As a technical matter, it would be very difficult for AT&T to absorb CNN and HBO without the broadcast functionality that these licenses provide, according to John Gasparini, policy fellow at DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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In one case the investor Bart Naylor, who works for consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said the bank has asked permission from U.S. securities regulators to omit his resolution calling for it to study divestitures or a break-up.
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group in Washington, agrees with the farmers that their finished ingredients are no different scientifically from their non-GMO counterparts, but said the products should still require labeling.
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"We have no idea what they're collecting and using, so to have independent auditors to go in and uncover that would be helpful," said Jamie Lee Williams, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a technology consumer advocacy group.
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"They're using it as a convenient excuse not to release this information," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization, which has previously sued the agency to disclose more information about companies.
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"They have cobbled together this sort of old media infrastructure but have been so aggressive in their concentration and consolidation that it actually gives them a huge reach," said Craig Aaron, president of Free Press, a consumer advocacy group.
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Complaints about such swindles to government agencies and consumer advocacy organizations doubled over the 2014-2017 period, according to the Better Business Bureau, which says millions of fake checks with billions of dollars in face value circulate every year.
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Independent consumer advocacy group Which tracked the price of 49 products from electronics retailer Currys PC World, 20 from Amazon (AMZN), 12 from the John Lewis department store group and two from Boots, a health, beauty and pharmacy chain.
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We were founded on the belief that consumers' interests are not adequately represented in Washington, and that "consumer advocacy" has been co-opted by a variety of special interests that claim to be working on behalf of ordinary Americans.
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All 50 states and the District of Columbia have "something that is arguably a lemon law," but too many fail consumers, said Jason Levine, the executive director of the center, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader.
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Charlie Leocha, chairman of consumer advocacy group Travelers United, said he supported the Democratic administration's initiative and that he hoped Hillary Clinton, also a Democrat, would press on with the rule-making if she is elected president on Nov. 8.
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"They're turning the city of New York into one giant digital shopping mall that erases the difference between online and offline marketing," said Jeffrey Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a leading consumer advocacy group focused on privacy.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. consumer advocacy group said that actress Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop lifestyle business makes deceptive claims about some of its products, and it has asked the California Food Drug and Medical Device Task Force to open an investigation.
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Over the first three quarters of this year, 626 large banks reaped a windfall of $8.4 billion from overdraft and "non-sufficient funds" fees, according to a report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of consumer advocacy groups.
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Such measures in recent years have not done much to reduce the ranks of lobbyists, but they have driven them under cover, Andre Delattre, executive director for the consumer advocacy group U.S. Public Interest Research Group, said in a statement.
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Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge similarly said in an announcement that it had filed "a purely procedural move" challenging the rule, even though it believed the FCC's rules still need to be officially published before a suit can be brought.
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Sporting Rich Uncle Pennybags' classic top hat and monocle look, the protester — who was reportedly a representative of consumer advocacy group Public Citizen — sat behind former Equifax CEO Richard Smith as he testified on the credit firm's massive security hack.
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The lawsuit, filed on their behalf by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, also named the Frontera Audubon Society as a plaintiff whose "members' ability to observe wildlife will be impaired" by construction of a border wall and resulting habitat damage.
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The organization I work for, the consumer advocacy group U.S. Right to Know, last month filed a lawsuit against the University of California-Davis after the university failed for more than a year and a half to turn over public records.
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According to a damning new chain of emails, big banks, credit unions, and several self-serving consumer-advocacy organizations are exploiting their cozy relationships with the Bureau to push for harsh restrictions on their competitors in the payday lending industry.
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CRL, the purported "consumer advocacy" arm of Self-Help, has used its funding over the last decade to wage a public relations war against payday lending, disparaging the industry and product in an attempt to – quite simply – shut down the competition.
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Expanding the private sector's involvement could trigger a host of unintended consequences, including curbing access and affordability for borrowers with low credit scores, said Kevin Fudge, director of consumer advocacy and ombudsman for the American Student Assistance, a student advocacy group.
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"I question whether what's being required has been fully thought through," said Eric Stein of Self Help Credit Union, an affiliate of the Center for Responsible Lending, a consumer advocacy group that has pushed for a delay in the new rule.
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Dana Floberg, policy manager at Free Press, a tech consumer advocacy group, said there is a history of the wireless industry seeking the highest profits from its wealthiest customers as it leaves rural groups and lower-income communities of color behind.
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"This really sends a signal to other companies that if you want to engage in off-label promotion, you can negotiate with the F.D.A.," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of health research at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group in Washington.
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The decision to halt the debt collection comes as congressional Democrats, labor unions and consumer advocacy groups urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to hit pause during the pandemic on the sweeping powers that the federal government has to pursue borrowers.
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"This report shows the I.R.S. deep scrutiny of political groups is in fact bipartisan, it is liberal and conservative groups that the I.R.S. has been targeting," said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
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The Technology 202 Network is a panel of technology experts from across the government, the private sector and the consumer advocacy community invited by The Washington Post to vote in regular surveys on the most pressing issues in the field.
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After the novel coronavirus came to the US in January, prices for face masks on Amazon spiked at least 50 percent for half of the listings, according to a study by the US PIRG Education Fund, a consumer advocacy group.
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While some transparency proponents had pushed back on the proposed rule during the public comment period, no one from consumer advocacy groups, First Amendment organizations or media companies showed up for the committee's vote, according to minutes of the discussion.
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An Arizona appeals court has overturned a judge's decision to unseal thousands of confidential records Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co produced in a lawsuit alleging it sold defective tires at the request of a consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader.
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But Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program at the nonprofit consumer-advocacy organization Public Citizen, said he had not seen evidence of Mr. Beal's pursuing an ideological agenda in the La Paloma case so much as a financial one.
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"Overall, the Democrats were successful at keeping the omnibus funding bill from being hijacked by inappropriate policy additions, keeping out over 160 proposed poison pill riders," said Lisa Gilbert, vice president of legislative affairs at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
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"He has been under constant attack in his position because of the threat he poses to the status quo on Wall Street," said Karl Frisch, executive director of Allied Progress, a consumer advocacy group which has called for Cordray to stay on.
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The Zambian office of the Consumer Unity and Trust Society, an international consumer advocacy group, has called for the government to tackle high food prices by lowering import tariffs on fertilizer and seeds as well as reducing taxes on most cereal crop products.
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"Americans deserve to know what they're getting when ordering for themselves and their families at chain restaurants, supermarkets and other food retailers," says Margo Wootan, vice president for nutrition for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.
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"Due to political agendas and the influence of campaign contributions, it's doubtful Congress would approve major new protections or the funding needed for the Consumer Bureau to do its job," said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director with consumer advocacy group U.S. PIRG.
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"The subsidies damage our country's health and increase the medical costs that will ultimately need to be paid to treat the effects of the obesity epidemic," a 153 report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, concluded.
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The report was assembled by the Center for Responsible Lending, a consumer advocacy organization for low-income people, as well as the National Council of La Raza, the Florida Alliance for Consumer Protection, and Latino Leadership Inc, a nonprofit agency based in Orlando.
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One of the HLEG's members, European consumer advocacy organization BEUC, voted against the report — arguing the group had missed an opportunity to push for a sector inquiry to investigate the link between advertising revenue policies of platforms and the dissemination of disinformation.
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But consumer advocacy groups have argued that YouTube, which is owned by Google, is able to collect data on children under 13 through its main site, where cartoons, nursery-rhyme videos and those ever-popular toy-unboxing clips garner millions of views.
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Democrats and consumer advocacy groups who have long pushed for sweeping student debt relief from the federal government have said in recent days that the coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated the need to provide assistance to Americans struggling with monthly loan payments. Sen.
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Security freezes, often called credit freezes, are "absolutely" the best way to prevent criminals from using your personal information to open new accounts in your name, said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a consumer advocacy nonprofit group.
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"New York City really helped to clear a path for other states and localities and, eventually, Congress," said Margo Wooten, vice president for nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group that's spearheaded the effort nationwide.
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"I don't see how procedurally, or politically, they can pull off a lame duck vote on NAFTA 2.0." said Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a consumer advocacy group, and author of a book on the fast-tack authority.
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Truth in Advertising, a consumer advocacy group, sent a letter to the FTC about Neora in 2016, and has been archiving a collection of its exaggerated claims about how much money sellers earn, as well as the false health claims about EHT.
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Avoid downloading apps from sources outside of official mobile app stores such as Google Play or the ITunes App Store, said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy at the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit corporation focused on consumer information and consumer advocacy.
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A "mystery shopper" study done last year by Georgia Watch, a consumer advocacy group, found that the prices quoted to prepare a return for a low-income single mother at local stores, including both independent shops and chains, ranged from $125 to $457.
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But many corporate owners, keen to make a profit, now aim at a more middle-class clientele looking for vacation or retirement homes, said Watson, who advocates on behalf of the Federation of Manufactured Home Owners of Florida, a consumer advocacy group.
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Physicians who continue to use robotic and minimally invasive approaches for cancer treatment "in the face of the evidence may put themselves in legal jeopardy," said Dr. Michael Carome, director of the health research group at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization.
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Consumer's Union, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group, says the pods can be mistaken for candy by very young children and it has petitioned regulators and manufacturers to change the product in ways that make it less appealing to kids and the containers more child-proof.
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"Upon learning of the consumer advocacy groups' concerns through media, we validated that we have adhered to our policy with respect to the voice data collected through the toys referred to in the complaint," Mack wrote in a blog post on the company's website.
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According to his financial disclosure forms—obtained via Freedom of Information Act by nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen and published by The Intercept—Smith has taken money from just about every major player in every industry that he will be tasked with overseeing.
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"Rulings like these are important in reaffirming that our Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the always-on location tracking devices that are part of modern life," Gaurav Laroia, a privacy expert at consumer advocacy firm Free Press told Motherboard.
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"Proposition 65 has been a thorn in the side of the food industry for decades," said Bruce Silverglade, an attorney who has represented the food industry and has served as legal director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.
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While it's easy to see the letter going around this week as nothing more than internet users falling for yet another online fraud, we challenge readers to think of it as something else: a kind of altruistic hoax, akin to a misinformed consumer advocacy campaign.
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Craig Spiezle, executive director of the Online Trust Alliance, a consumer advocacy group, said something similar could happen with online advertising, where stakeholders agree to observe best practices, including respecting Do Not Track, or D.N.T., which is a preference consumers can activate in their browsers.
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YouTube is facing a new complaint from a coalition of consumer advocacy groups that claims that the popular video website has broken children's privacy laws by collecting information on underage viewers in order to sell ads, according to a report in The New York Times.
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Three Texas landowners and an environmental group filed the first lawsuit on Friday challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration aimed at freeing up billions of dollars to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said.
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Earlier this month, the cable giant was hit with a complaint filed by DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge alleging that "Stream TV" is anticompetitive, illegal, and in violation of commitments Comcast made when it bought a controlling stake in NBCUniversal in 2011.
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Photo: GettyBritish spy agencies have collected and shared huge databases of personal and social media information on millions of individuals, and effectively circumvented the investigatory body tasked with surveillance oversight, according to documents newly obtained by Privacy International, a London-based consumer advocacy group.
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But S. Derek Turner, Research Director for consumer advocacy firm Free Press, tells Motherboard he's particularly concerned that the standard could have a decidedly negative impact on the political advertising landscape in the wake of media consolidation and our quest to quell rampant disinformation.
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Consumer advocacy groups, vape store owners, tax-reform activists, and run-of-the-mill vapers had a rather rough go this summer, with a spate of vaping-related illnesses and a vague hysteria over what exactly brought about 2,903-plus cases and dozens of deaths.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven consumer advocacy groups wrote to Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday to ask him to consider blocking AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner on the grounds that it will lead to higher prices and slow innovation in showing video online.
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"We are very concerned that the shutdown may lead to lapses in food safety, but we don't know where or when these will happen," said Sarah Sorscher, deputy director of regulatory affairs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group.
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Not only did the company's stock immediately take off after news of this rescue from oversight, but consumer advocacy and good government groups quickly pointed out that Mulvaney had taken thousands in campaign donations from World Acceptance when he was a member of Congress.
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"With a lot of prisoners I suspect that it's more about how we get through the day," said Adam K. Levin, former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and a founder of identity protection and consumer advocacy companies CyberScout and Credit.com.
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OOF: Two private equity firms trying to influence legislation to end surprise medical billing have contributed heavily to the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee, according to a report by the liberal consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, provided first to The Health 202.
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"The results from Maine and Virginia send a very clear signal that the public is interested in moving past the type of obstruction we've seen from policymakers in some states," said Katherine Howitt, associate director of policy at Community Catalyst, a consumer advocacy group.
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This month, a coalition of consumer advocacy groups contended that YouTube had been aware that children 12 and younger have been watching the main site and that, therefore, it had been violating a privacy law that requires parental consent before collecting and mining their data.
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"The various ideas for how to use revenue from a financial transaction tax would almost certainly help people of modest means more than the tax would [negatively] affect people of modest means," said Taylor Lincoln, research director at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
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Allen Grunes spent more than a decade at the DOJ Antitrust Division and is the co-founder of The Konkurrenz Group in Washington, D.C., which advises small businesses, Fortune 500 firms, consumer advocacy groups and governments on issues of competition, privacy and consumer protection law.
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Consumer advocacy groups have also filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accusing DeVos of having violated the Administrative Procedure Act by postponing the Borrower Defense to Repaying rule, which was set to take effect on July 1.
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Lindsey Wolko, founder of the nonprofit Center for Pet Safety, a consumer advocacy group, sorts essential safety gear into two categories: distraction prevention, which keeps the dog out of the front seat, and crash protection, designed to provide the best chance to avoid injuries.
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Eliot Fishman, who ran Medicaid's state demonstrations program until May, and is now a senior director at the consumer advocacy group Families USA, said the Obama administration examined the evidence when states asked for work requirements before, and found them inconsistent with the program's purpose.
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So I think that we're just beginning, and as we grow, advocacy and especially consumer advocacy and working with brands such as Unilever, who have said "we are going to be 100 percent sustainable," which is just an insane mission for a brand to do.
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"If approved, this deal would especially hurt consumers seeking lower-cost wireless plans, as the combined company's plans would likely increase while competitors AT&T and Verizon would have even less incentive to lower prices," said Phillip Berenbroick, lawyer for the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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The states involved are home to so many of T-Mobile and Sprint's customers that the lawsuit poses a significant challenge to the companies' plans, said Gene Kimmelman, a former Justice Department antitrust official who now leads Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy organization that opposes the merger.
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But it's still bad news for Facebook — and good news for users — that a consumer advocacy group is finding success as it pushes back against the social network's generous data sharing policies, which are often more a benefit to the company than to people using the service.
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While consumer advocacy group, BEUC, criticizes the Commission for postponing what it dubs "hard decisions to later" — calling for it to make a clear commitment to update the bloc's product safety and liability rules to ensure they are fit for the risks of the AI age.
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"(The agency) needs to be empowered to protect consumers against new hazards that may emerge, and to ensure automated systems work as they're supposed to without placing consumers at risk," said Friedman, now director of cars and product policy for the consumer advocacy group Consumers Union.
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"This issue has been under consideration at the FCC for two years now, and the benefit of further delay is unclear," John Bergmayer, senior counsel at Public Knowledge, the DC-based consumer advocacy group that has championed the set-top box reform proposal, said in a statement.
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"It is a conflict of interest, because the interests of the pharmaceutical industry, from whom they are getting support, may be different from the interests of the patients," said Dr. Michael Carome, the director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group.
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Also on Thursday, Washington-based consumer advocacy group Public Citizen released documents that show that Andrew Smith, director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection, will have to recuse himself from all matters concerning 120 companies -- two of which are currently under investigation by the agency.
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Stacy J. Sanders, the federal policy director at the Medicare Rights Center, a consumer advocacy group, welcomed the proposal, saying it would reduce the incentive for doctors to prescribe drugs that are expensive and ultimately unaffordable for low- and middle-income people who have no supplemental insurance.
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"Given the credit bureaus' past issues with the accuracy and security of data, we are watching them closely as they experiment with new business models that give them access to more personal information," said Mike Litt, consumer campaign director for U.S. PIRG, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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Mr. Trump has also chosen Noah Phillips, chief counsel for Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, and Rohit Chopra, a fellow at a consumer advocacy group, to fill the remaining two seats at the agency, said Natalie M. Strom, assistant press secretary at the White House.
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Even products sold directly by Amazon got more expensive as news of the virus spread, with prices on one in six listings for sanitizers or masks surging by at least 50 percent in February, according to an analysis by the consumer advocacy organization US PIRG Education Fund.
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"The Trump administration is hellbent on repealing the clean car standards, which was the most significant US governmental action program to date to avert climate change and would save consumers tens of billions if left intact," said Robert Weissman, president of the consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen.
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"Part of the problem that we're experiencing here is the explosion of the internet, and computing has transformed markets so dramatically that traditional sectors are kind of disappearing," said Gene Kimmelman, a former Justice Department official and senior advisor to Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group.
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The groups opposing the FCC include a hodgepodge of tech companies and consumer advocacy groups, as well as state and local officials—among them: the Mozilla Corporation; Etsy; Free Press; Public Knowledge; the National Hispanic Media Coalition; the Open Technology Institute; the Center for Democracy & Technology, and others.
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"I realized I was going to have to be self-employed in order to maintain any sort of possibility of finding a good job," said Moore, who is now an attorney based in California, focusing on consumer advocacy issues including cyberabuse, inaccurate credit reports and debt collection abuse.
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Last month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce published a report arguing the taxes would hurt the business community and retirees, while consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen argued that higher-income people would have more costs associated with the taxes than those on the lower end of the income spectrum.
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A consumer advocacy group called the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is alleging that PepsiCo dishonestly markets the drinks with claims like "only the best ingredients" and "just the healthiest fruits and vegetables" when, in reality, they contain a lot of sugar and aren't particularly nutritious.
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A consumer advocacy group on Friday urged Tesla to fix what it termed as "flaws" in Autopilot after a preliminary government report said a Model X driver did not have his hands on the vehicle's steering wheel in the final six seconds before a fatal crash on March 23.
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"While the most likely outcome is for Charter to settle, it is not impossible for New York to decide that Charter is simply not trustworthy to fulfill its obligations, and demand they sell off their systems," said Harold Feld, senior vice president of consumer-advocacy group Public Knowledge.
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"HIPPA applies when you are transferring data between doctors, or insurance companies, but as soon as you give that information to a third party it is jailbroken from HIPPA... once it's out, it's out," Emily Peterson-Cassin, an attorney at consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen, told The Hill.
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Significantly, vzbv has won the right to bring data protection-related legal challenges within Germany even with the pan-EU General Data Protection Regulation in force — opening the door to strategic litigation by consumer advocacy bodies and privacy rights groups in what is a very pro-privacy market.
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"Even though they may be ideologically aligned, Newsmax and others see Sinclair is going to be so big that they'll swallow up ad dollars and starve the conservative competition," Craig Aaron, the president of the consumer advocacy group Free Press, which opposes the merger, said in an email.
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"Fundamentally, the primary reason for a lender to seek a federal charter is to avoid state licensing regimes and their accompanying laws and oversight," a coalition of consumer advocacy groups, led by the group Americans for Financial Reform, wrote to the currency comptroller before the announcement on Friday.
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"The proposed merger of AT&T and Time Warner could create a number of competitive harms, leading to higher costs and fewer choices for video services and lower-quality and less diverse programming," Gene Kimmelman, President of DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
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The dissenter on the committee, Tyson Slocum, the energy program director of the Washington consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, criticized the way the report was produced, saying most committee members were unaware of its existence until a draft was sent to them this month, leaving little chance for their input.
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DoNotPay, the family of consumer advocacy services meant to protect people from corporate exploitation, is launching a new app aimed at helping end our long national nightmare surrounding robocalls by giving you a burner credit card to get their contact details then giving you a chatbot lawyer to automatically sue them.
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"We are pleased that Medi-Cal coverage will expand to not just all income-eligible children but young adults, regardless of immigration status, but disappointed we couldn't make that same commitment to seniors this year," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a statewide health-care consumer advocacy coalition.
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For decades, countless varieties of crops that ultimately became supermarket staples were created through breeding practices that involved subjecting the crops to radiation to attain favorable genetic mutations — including the ruby red grapefruit, said Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group in Washington.
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"The FTC's track record in the tech sector is unbelievably weak, and this administration has inherited that and needs to move much more aggressively to shift course," said Gene Kimmelman, a senior adviser at the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge and a former chief counsel in the Justice Department's antitrust division.
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Consumer advocacy and environmental groups warning about the perils of climate change, who enjoyed easy access to the Obama White House, have largely been shut out of a Trump White House that is more skeptical of climate change and believes Obama over-reached with some of his measures to protect consumers.
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"The company refused to turn off recommendations on videos featuring young children in leotards and bathing suits even after researchers demonstrated YouTube's algorithm was recommending these videos to pedophiles," wrote consumer advocacy groups in a letter to the FTC this week, urging the agency to take action against YouTube to protect children.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A consumer advocacy group on Friday urged Tesla Inc to fix what it termed as "flaws" in the automaker's driver-assistance system Autopilot after a preliminary government report said a driver did not have his hands on the vehicle's steering wheel in the final six seconds before a fatal crash.
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But the mounting attention from US regulators in recent years could be linked to the increasingly prevalent role tech platforms have played in politics and other aspects of society, according to Danny O'Brien, the director of strategy for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit consumer-advocacy group focusing on defending civil liberties online.
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"The F.T.C. is really limited in what they can actually do in enforcing a consent decree, but in the case of Facebook, they had public pressure on their side," said Justin Brookman, a former official for the regulator who is now a director of privacy at Consumers Union, nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
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"After finally gaining basic privacy protections for broadband providers last year, it's outrageous that Chairman Pai will now remove the simple rule that internet service providers must take reasonable data security measures to protect their customers' information," Chris Lewis, vice president at DC-based consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, said in a statement.
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U.S. Senator and consumer advocacy groups urge FTC to take action on YouTube's alleged COPPA violations The complaint from the FTC and New York AG hinged on Google's use of cookies from viewers of kids' channels on YouTube that tracked those viewers across the internet without receiving the permission of parents first.
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In regards to the accusation that Honest's organic baby formula contains unnatural ingredients, Thorne noted that the issue is about how the FDA has multiple methods to classify organic products, and thinks that consumer advocacy groups are using the company as a target for issues that should actually be taken up with the FDA.
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"The factual record shows that Mr. Icahn played a leading role shaping the Trump campaign's position on the point of obligation for the [renewable fuel standard], and served to 'vet' candidates to run the EPA, the agency in charge of administrating the RFS," Public Citizen, a left-leaning consumer advocacy organization, wrote in its complaint.
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Last week, the consumer advocacy organization called on Tesla to restrict the use of Autopilot and install a more effective system to verify driver engagement in response to a preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board on the fatal March 2019 crash of a Tesla Model 3 with a semi-trailer in Delray Beach, Fla.
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"The Senate majority has endorsed for CFPB a nominee indistinguishable from Mick Mulvaney, who has done his level best to dismantle from within an agency that once won real results for American families hurt by Wall Street and predatory lenders," Lisa Donner, who heads the consumer advocacy group, Americans for Financial Reform, said in a statement.
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" James Rogers, director of Food Safety and Research at Consumer Reports, a consumer advocacy group, said in a post, "Even though we can't say with 100% certainty that romaine lettuce is the cause of the E. coli outbreak in the US, a greater degree of caution is appropriate given that lettuce is almost always consumed raw.
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Guarav Laroia, Policy Counsel at consumer advocacy firm Free Press, told Motherboard that a major point of failure in this chain of dysfunction is the wireless industry's "notice and consent" approach to privacy, which involves throwing a page of complex legalese at users to sign, then aggressively misinterpreting that contract to mean user data can be widely shared.
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Among those that have criticized the Massachusetts proposal are Health Care for All, a consumer advocacy group in Boston; the American Medical Association; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network; the American Diabetes Association; the National Alliance on Mental Illness; and drugmakers including Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and Teva.
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"As it becomes increasingly clear that antitrust fines or after-the-fact remedies are not enough to bring vibrant competition to the market, governments will need to move to deeper tech sector regulation to remedy problems," said Gene Kimmelman, a former antitrust official in the Justice Department who is now president of Public Knowledge, a consumer advocacy group.
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"The modified approach the Chairman has described today addresses the legitimate concerns raised by these parties while preserving the benefits to the public, and fulfilling the Congressional directive that requires the FCC to ensure that viewers do not need to rent set-top boxes from their providers," said John Bergmayer, senior counsel at consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, in a statement.
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A coalition of consumer advocacy groups is calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to oppose requiring foreign nationals to provide their social media passwords to enter the U.S. In February, DHS Secretary John Kelly floated the idea of forcing citizens of certain countries to hand over their passwords as part of "enhanced vetting measures" supported by the Trump administration.
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Several consumer advocacy groups, unhappy with Mylan's handling of the drug's pricing, said that on Tuesday they would deliver petitions signed by over 600,000 people to the company's American corporate headquarters in Canonsburg, Pa. In addition, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said that it had started an investigation and had asked the company for information about the product.
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"Whether the move from Senator Warren to prod President Obama to remove her on disclosure grounds is successful, it will certainly pull this rulemaking, and the need to ensure that the final budget package is free of the rider to stymie it, back into the spotlight," Lisa Gilbert, a director at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, said in an email.
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"I think there's obviously a lot of weight from the health care industry that is going to be thrown against this, and that means it's always an uphill battle to get something like this across the finish line," said Adam Fox, director of strategic engagement for the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, a consumer advocacy group that supports the public option.
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"It is the duty of the Department of Education to insist on consumer protections for these borrowers, and if they believe improvements are needed to existing regulations, they should continue to protect borrowers from these predatory practices while another lengthy negotiated rulemaking plays out to improve the regulations," Betsy Mayotte, director of consumer outreach and compliance for American Student Assistance's Center for Consumer Advocacy, said in a statement.
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On the other are consumer-advocacy groups, and concerned citizens whose views run the gamut: from basic concepts, like that transparency is always the best policy (an opinion shared by the New York Times); to people who truly believe GMOs pose a health risk—and who believe that companies like Monsanto are involved in a global, greed-driven conspiracy to destroy humanity, the planet, and everything on it.
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"Our advice is for people to continue using common sense measures -- that they should rinse off their vegetables, rinse off their fruits, cook their meat, don't eat raw meats, and just do all the normal things that you should do all the time anyway and you should be just fine," Alex Berezow, vice president of scientific affairs of the American Council on Science and Health, a pro-science consumer advocacy organization, said in an email.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) and most self-appointed consumer advocacy groups: The CFPB is the only thing stopping Wall Street bandits from breaking into your home and prying money out of your calloused, hard-working, blue-collar hands.
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Ed MarkeyEdward (Ed) John MarkeyJoseph Kennedy mulling primary challenge to Markey in Massachusetts Overnight Energy: Trump sparks new fight over endangered species protections | States sue over repeal of Obama power plant rules | Interior changes rules for ethics watchdogs To cash in on innovation, remove market barriers for advanced energy technologies MORE (D-Mass.) and consumer advocacy groups like Public Knowledge, Color of Change and the Consumer Federation of America defended the delineation between sensitive and non-sensitive data on conference call with reporters prior to the vote.
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The rumor had so much weight behind it that Halte à l'Obsolescence Programmée, a French consumer advocacy group, filed a suit yesterday in France under a 2015 law that forbids companies from purposely making older technology obsolete, and last week two separate class actions were filed here in the US.That might be difficult to prove as Apple is correct: Old batteries do lose their ability to maintain a charge, and thanks to the mad dash to make phones water resistant, most phones no longer allow for the battery to be easily replaced.
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FCC Chief of Staff Matthew Berry tweeted that all of those calls were about network restoration after Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall on August 25: A few weeks later, while attending a conference hosted by the CTIA—a wireless telecom lobby group—Pai met in person with executives from Nokia, T-Mobile, Samsung, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile's parent company), and Sprint one after the other: Of course, meeting with representatives from the telecom industry is part of Pai's job, but his schedule definitely shows a preference for large corporations over consumer advocacy groups.
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Advance America accused consumer-advocacy groups like the Center for Responsible Lending, whose alumni dotted the bureau and who had consulted closely with it on the proposed rules, of "infiltrating" the C.F.P.B. (The revolving door, of course, spun both ways: Shaul was recruited by the industry after working for Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who was an author of Dodd-Frank, and dozens of former bureau officials have gone on to work for the financial industry.) The industry mustered studies, including one by the bureau's former assistant research director, finding that the bureau's proposal would cut revenue so drastically as to put storefront companies out of business.
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