The Suffolk County Department of Consumer Affairs and the District Attorney's office declined to comment, as did the Nassau County Department of Consumer Affairs.
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The rest dealt with immigration, consumer affairs and health care.
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CNBC spoke with Natasha Rachel Smith, consumer affairs expert at TopCashback.
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He filed a complaint with the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs.
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He was previously at the Federal Reserve Board's division of consumer affairs.
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At the House hearing held by the subcommittee on consumer affairs, Rep.
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A spokesman for the Tennessee Division of Consumer Affairs also declined to comment.
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The bill is currently in the council's Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing Committee.
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The Committee on Consumer Affairs held a hearing to discuss the bills on Tuesday.
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The Department of Consumer Affairs administers a 150-question exam to aspiring tour guides.
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This story was originally published on Consumer Affairs and has been syndicated with permission.
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Consumer Affairs has a handy collection of these, complete with user rankings and reviews.
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The spokesman for the Division of Consumer Affairs would not comment on the complaint.
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The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs launched an investigation into hackable baby monitors.
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From 1967 to 1969, he was an assistant administrator in the city Consumer Affairs Department.
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The Department of Consumer Affairs will now become the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
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But Mr. Zuman blames the city's Department of Consumer Affairs for failing to enforce the regulations.
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On Wednesday, Zayner posted a letter from the California Department of Consumer Affairs Division of Investigation.
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Last year, the Department of Consumer Affairs accused the bondsman Marvin Morgan of circumventing industry rules.
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G.A.N.Y.C.'s guides, for example, are licensed by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs.
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The Assembly's Consumer Affairs committee approved the bill along party lines: all Democrats for, all Republicans against.
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If your contractor is licensed, you could also file a complaint with your local consumer affairs department.
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Roberta Heiden, a homeowner in Marine Park, Brooklyn, has had two experiences with the consumer affairs department.
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Now he's under investigation by California's Department of Consumer Affairs, accused of practicing medicine without a license.
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The ban, if passed, would be enforced by the city departments of consumer affairs, sanitation and health.
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He added 34 more units, including identity theft, consumer affairs, "cold" cases, Asian gangs and firearms trafficking.
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However, according to the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, the law does not apply to carpooling.
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These laws, typically enforced by state attorneys general or consumer affairs departments, fine companies if they don't disclose.
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But as Ana, consumer affairs liaison for Carters, told Refinery29, it is the avocado that has captured popular imagination.
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Porozhanov said Bulgaria would send the results of its tests to the European Commission's consumer affairs chief Vera Jourova.
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The city's Department of Consumer Affairs would be responsible for investigating and levying fines against employers who don't comply.
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"Automakers are really offering incentives to move all this metal," said Kelsey Mays, senior consumer affairs editor at Cars.com.
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What's more, according to Consumer Affairs, these medications can result in insomnia, drowsiness, headache and upset stomach for adults.
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Consumer Affairs warns against other treatments the study found unhelpful: heated air, humidified steam, echinacea, probiotics and eucalyptus oil.
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And someone named MattDogg reported the cafe to Consumer Affairs Victoria, alleging that the cafe was discriminating against men.
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ALBERTO GARZON - consumer affairs minister Economist and politician Garzon, 34, has been a lawmaker for United Left since 2011.
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"It's a very middle-income deduction," said Cristina Martin Firvida, director of financial security and consumer affairs at AARP.
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The raid was undertaken by France's General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF), the statement said.
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Lorelei Salas is the commissioner of the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs, which houses the City's offices of Financial Empowerment.
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The BPPE, which is part of California's Department of Consumer Affairs, oversees the private higher education market in the state.
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Lorelei Salas is the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs, which houses the City's Office of Financial Empowerment.
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According to NJ.com, more than 100 violations against game operators have been discovered by the Division of Consumer Affairs since 2014.
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Read This Next: Johnson & Johnson Faces 5,000 Lawsuits Over Talcum Powder A version of this story originally appeared on Consumer Affairs.
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Anyone with one of the recalled packages should contact Consumer Affairs immediately at 800-338-8051 to set up a refund.
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The Consumer Affairs Department also has the power to revoke licenses to sell cigarettes from businesses found to be selling K2.
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On the Consumer Affairs website, Quip toothbrushes have an average rating of 4 stars, with a majority giving it 5 stars.
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Then we met with Jessica Brooks, a credit expert from the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs for more details.
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In other states, the agencies include departments of industrial relations, insurance, consumer protection, public health and human services, safety and consumer affairs.
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First, the legislation must be approved by a majority of the five-person committee of Consumer Affairs, of which he's the chairman.
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Consumer Affairs has posted hundreds of very detailed complaints about the company, many of them describing pretty lousy service from phone representatives.
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Here in New York City, around two out of every five workers is a freelancer, according to the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.
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In 2018, New Jersey's consumer affairs department found 28 businesses that allegedly charged customers for legal services they weren't actually able to provide.
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Three brands in particular — Volkswagen, Ford and Nissan — have high levels of 2019 inventory, said Kelsey Mays, senior consumer affairs editor at Cars.com.
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A study in Journal of Consumer Affairs has found that thinking about death makes us more likely to hit the mall (or store websites).
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In response, Consumer Affairs Victoria brought a case to federal court, and in March Gibson was found guilty of five breaches of consumer law.
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For one, he's chairman of the assembly's Consumer Affairs Committee, meaning that he has more power to shepherd legislation through the important committee process.
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"Presenting two different products in the same branded packaging is misleading and unfair to consumers," Commissioner Vera Jourova, who handles consumer affairs, told reporters.
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Consumers with questions about the recall can contact USDA consumer affairs at (866) 400-0965 or the Campbell Soup Company at 866-400-0965.
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Dozens of one-star reviews filed on Consumer Affairs since the hack describe the teeth-grating frustration of using services Equifax did actually provide.
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The Division of Consumer Affairs has opened an investigation into the store's practices regarding the sale of health and sanitation products, the statement said.
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"There's been a slight decrease in the number of complaints since 2016, but it's an ongoing problem," said Lorelei Salas, the consumer affairs commissioner.
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When the Nassau and Suffolk consumer affairs departments revoked Mr. Lawrence's contractor's license in the spring, he left New York to find work elsewhere.
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"They're still offering it for the PR value of saying they have a $35,000 car," said Kelsey Mays, senior consumer affairs editor of Cars.com.
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In 2015, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that items targeting women cost 7% more on average than comparable products targeting men.
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Merlene Kairouz, minister for consumer affairs, gaming and liquor regulation for the state of Victoria, also did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
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New York City's Consumer Affairs Department recommended in September that the auction houses publish net prices for works that have been backed by external finance.
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Kia's director of consumer affairs and warranty operations provided live testimony on why Kia considered many of the plaintiffs' exhibits to contain proprietary trade secrets.
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The Department of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the dental licensing board, wouldn't specify whether the suspension is a standard procedure considering the allegations Vecchione faces.
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The hearings, held jointly with the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan, will continue on the two following days if needed, the regulator said.
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"Getting that training is going to stop a lot of financial exploitation," said Cristina Martin Firvida, vice president for financial security and consumer affairs at AARP.
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Catalonia has full responsibility in such areas as civil law, police, education, health care, industry, trade, consumer affairs, environment, research, local government, tourism, transport and media.
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And under his direction, the Consumer Affairs Division secured 14 convictions for violations of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act resulting in victims reclaiming more than $375,85033.
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Over the next four years he was an associate commissioner, then the deputy to two commissioners of consumer affairs, Bess Myerson and her successor, Betty Furness.
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At dealerships, Jeep products also command close to their suggested retail prices and customers spend a lot on accessories, said Kelsey Mays, consumer affairs editor at Cars.com.
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It wasn't until 2018 that the website was finally forced offline by the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs as a response to the 2016 data breach.
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Consumers concerned about the product can call the company's consumer affairs hotline at 800-338-8051 or the USDA's meat and poultry hotline at 888-674-6854.
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Some of these drivers are considering reaching out to legal representation, others plan to report the company to Consumer Affairs and some refuse to forfeit their shares.
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Home improvement contractors working in the five boroughs need a license from city's Department of Consumer Affairs, while general contractors are licensed through the Department of Buildings.
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From 1984 to 1988, he was the general counsel and the deputy commissioner at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs under Mayor Edward I. Koch.
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The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs began investigating Berkeley and three other for-profit schools in 2015 over concerns about dropout and loan-default rates.
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Joe Chessere, an investigator who has tested games for 14 years, told NJ.com that the Division of Consumer Affairs check the vendor's license and inspect the game's equipment.
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In a separate report handed to Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire on Tuesday, a consumer affairs body stressed the need to review the product recall process in France.
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Vizio agreed to pay $2.2 million in penalties, including $303 million to the FTC and $1 million to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, with $300,000 suspended.
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As of last year, according to the city's department of consumer affairs, only about 290 of the city's more than 280,290 clubs and bars actually have cabaret licenses.
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The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs is investigating the security of baby monitors, nearly five months after research demonstrated the existence of serious vulnerabilites in them.
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Other wounds have been self-inflicted, like last year, when the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs called it out for mispricing some merchandise based on weight.
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In short: It didn't register with the bureau, which is under the Department of Consumer Affairs and oversees the private higher education market in the state of California.
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Complaints filed against home improvement contractors rank among the top five complaint categories year after year in New York City, according to the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.
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A 2015 study by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs found that women pay an average of 653% more than men across a number of categories.
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One study by the New York Department of Consumer Affairs found that personal care products marketed to women cost an average of 13 percent more than equivalent men's products.
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"When you get bad advice, you are paying for it," said Cristina Martin Firvida, director of financial security and consumer affairs at AARP, the advocacy group for older Americans.
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The FDA advised parents with health-related questions to contact a healthcare provider, and anyone with questions about the product to contact Perrigo Consumer Affairs at 866-629-6181.
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But there's no such a thing as volcano insurance or lava flow insurance, said Jerry Bump, chief deputy insurance commissioner at the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
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After getting her master's, she decided to join Kroger as a dietician working in corporate and consumer affairs, though it was an adjustment from what she'd learned in school.
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The lawsuit was filed against Vizio and subsidiary Inscape Services by the FTC, the Attorney General of New Jersey and the director of the state's Division of Consumer Affairs.
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Lambda School disputes the comments made by the Department of Consumer Affairs, and says that it can operate as per usual while an appeal to the citation is pending.
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Mr. Steininger's sister, Karen, acted as the bookkeeper and helped to conceal the purchases from the Department of Consumer Affairs, which licenses towing companies, according to the criminal indictments.
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Lindstrom, a former consumer affairs director for Romney, cast herself in a video announcement as an "independent-minded Republican," saying "there's plenty of blame to go around" in Washington.
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Geoff Diehl (a 2016 Trump campaign co-chair in Massachusetts), businessman John Kingston, and Beth Lindstrom, the former director of the state's Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation.
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A report last year from Consumer Affairs said that most self-driving car crashes involve a human driver slamming into the back of a stationary or slow-moving autonomous vehicle.
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In the last few years of the company's life, for example, it became a frequent target of discussion at Consumer Affairs, which tested the company's model after receiving consumer complaints.
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City residents can call 311 and be connected to a consumer affairs official, but if you are a data hound, you can tap directly into the city's Open Data system.
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As an agency also charged with protecting consumers, the NYC Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) works tirelessly to combat deceptive and predatory practices that put people into cycles of debt.
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The pink tax is obnoxious and real — a 2015 study from the New York City Division of Consumer Affairs found that across the board women spend more on products than men.
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"Naomi Derrick will have no access to patients – child or adult– while these appalling allegations against her are pending," said Steve Lee, director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.
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"We're heading towards a reasonably big surplus and we recently doubled the import duty on sugar to 100 percent," Ram Vilas Paswan, the minister for food and consumer affairs, told reporters.
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The source said the Paris prosecutor had opened the investigation on March 15, after the finance ministry's DGCCRF consumer affairs and anti-fraud body had referred the case to the courts.
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The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan and the Ontario Securities Commission also denied Aurora's request to shorten the deposit period for the offer to 35 days from 105 days.
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Earlier this month India&aposs Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) introduced new draft regulation for consumer protection which would — among other things — clamp down on the sale of counterfeit goods online.
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"Young folks, especially if you're talking about people who have just graduated, many of them have been under their parents' plan," said Lisa Zamosky, senior director of consumer affairs at eHealth.
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If the business doesn't have the resources to pay the homeowner, the consumer affairs department can tap into its home improvement contractor trust fund to award the homeowner up to $265,22012.
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It was in the prehistoric 1990s that I began to report on racial inequities in fashion serious enough to attract the attention of the commissioner of Consumer Affairs in New York.
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The bills propose that food delivery apps be limited to charging restaurants no more than 10 percent commission, and require them to be licensed through the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.
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VW's chief executive Matthias Mueller told the EU's commissioner for consumer affairs earlier this week that the company would now offer European customers a two-year extended warranty, the Commission spokesman said.
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"Our records show that 83 percent stand to see their credit scores boosted because of their rent payment data," James Jones, head of consumer affairs at Experian told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Sikhumbuzo Nkambule, communications and consumer affairs manager at the eSwatini Energy Regulatory Authority, told Reuters the solar project would cut electricity imports and boost job creation, and could also stimulate foreign investment.
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Data from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs released in October indicated that 11.2 percent of residents have no bank account and nearly 85033 percent use alternative banking such as check-cashing establishments.
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In late 2015, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs published a study comparing nearly 800 products from more than 90 brands, looking for price differences in items marketed to different genders.
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In February, California Governor Jerry Brown announced his appointment of seasoned bureaucrat Lori Ajax to head up the states brand new Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation at the California Department of Consumer Affairs.
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He is a former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and is the author of Swiped: How to Protect Yourself In a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves.
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Following an approach initiated by Sotheby's, New York City's Consumer Affairs Department in September recommended that the published results of lots bought by third-party guarantors should subtract any fees paid to them.
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Washington (CNN)In selecting judges for top US courts, President Donald Trump has searched for reliable conservatives who would reduce federal regulatory power over the environment and energy, worker safety and consumer affairs.
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Data from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs released in October indicated that 11.2 percent of residents have no bank account and about 22 percent use alternative banking such as check-cashing establishments.
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EU consumer affairs commissioner Vera Jourova has sought to ramp up pressure on VW to compensate European owners of rigged diesel vehicles and has asked the carmaker for guarantees its technical fixes will work.
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The budget also includes increased funding to boost staffing at the state's Justice Department to address policies from the Trump administration that affect public safety, health care, the environment, consumer affairs and constitutional issues.
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As music streaming services continue to flourish in the digital age, Consumer Affairs notes that 89 million units of CDs were sold in all of 2017 — compared to the 800 million sold in 2001.
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"A possible explanation is that these cars don't drive the same way that people do," Phil Koopman, a Carnegie Mellon professor and software engineer who consults for self-driving car companies, told Consumer Affairs.
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Homeowners, worried that they wouldn't get subsequent payments, or worse yet, would legally be required to return funds they had already accepted, made numerous calls to the state recovery agency and consumer affairs departments.
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"Consumer confidence decreased slightly in the month to August, but it shows little sign of a significant, sustained 'Brexit effect' as yet," said Bobby Duffy, managing director of consumer affairs at pollster Ipsos MORI.
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Following an approach from Sotheby's, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs recommended in September that "net" prices reflecting buyer discounts should be published after such sales, and all three houses have complied.
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The government-run Consumer Affairs Agency said that product catalogues and websites for vehicles sold by Japan's sixth-largest automaker carried misrepresentations of their fuel economies, in accordance with a goods and services labelling law.
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And in Ohio, the other Midwest battleground where Republicans remain hopeful, Democrat Richard Cordray, the country's former top consumer affairs watchdog, has turned a race that once leaned in Republicans' favor into a toss-up.
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Compiled by Matteo Bittanti, the conceptual artist behind the book about homelessness in Sim City, the 300+ reviews in Flight Cancelled were culled from My 3 Cents, Consumer Affairs and Yelp between 2003 and 2016.
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Also: Local Governments Need to Hire When the rebuilding process starts, local governments need to expand, as more employees are needed to expedite permits for contractors and to field phone calls at consumer affairs offices.
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Unfortunately, there has been no response from the office of the Australian Capital Territory's Minister for Justice and Consumer Affairs, but the capital's Liquor Act of 2010 indicates it's an offence to barter or exchange liquor.
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Julie Menin, the commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, who conceived of the program in her previous job as the commissioner of consumer affairs, said the district chosen would be announced in December.
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Actual installation of the cuts averages about $12 to $153 per square foot of concrete being poured or replaced and must be completed by a contractor with a license from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.
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John sued one month after New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs in June 2015 said all 80 prepackaged foods it tested from Whole Foods had mislabeled weights, and 89 percent failed to meet federal labeling standards.
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Medical marijuana company CanniMed on Monday asked the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan and the Ontario Securities Commission to declare Aurora's move to take its buyout offer directly to CanniMed shareholders as an insider bid.
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Another recent study conducted by New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), covering 800 consumer products, found that 42 percent of the time, products specifically marketed to women cost more than the equivalent male-branded offerings.
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She was previously the commissioner of the Department of Consumer Affairs; under her watch, it led a study that found that women's versions of goods like clothing and toiletries were often priced higher than those for men.
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Revenue collected by the Consumer Affairs Department from restaurants with outdoor seating has more than doubled, to about $14 million over the past decade (as has the number of restaurants with outdoor space, to more than 1,22051).
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The General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control's announcement, as seen by AppleInsider, notes that Apple has agreed to pay the fine and will display a press release on its website for one month.
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But for seven kiwi producers taking part in sketchy labeling, the scamming might be over: France's Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control is taking legal action that could lead to fines and even prison time.
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Shareholders sued Whole Foods after New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs revealed in June 2015 that all 80 prepackaged foods it tested from the retailer had mislabeled weights, with overcharges as high as $14.84 for coconut shrimp.
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But two weeks ago, another of the company's livid customers — and there are many on sites like Consumer Affairs — said she was charged $303 for a fill-up, although she returned the car with the tank full. Why?
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But the state's licensing board has never done so, said William Nhieu, a spokesman for Hawaii's Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, because no state or federal student loan agencies have given it the names of delinquent borrowers.
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The rise of Mr. Ratner in the city's real estate industry partly stems from the lasting connections he made during his years at City Hall, where he served as Mr. Koch's commissioner of the department of consumer affairs.
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Last year, Karima Jackson, a graduate student at Rutgers University and a lifelong Newark resident, filed a complaint against the cemetery's board with the Division of Consumer Affairs claiming financial mismanagement, regulatory violations and a lack of transparency.
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In response, Jane Garrett, the minister for consumer affairs in Victoria, told reporters in Melbourne Wednesday her office would be taking action, including calling on the federal government to consider a ban on the sale of hoverboards across Australia.
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In the name of public safety, Garrett announced she had also directed inspectors at Consumer Affairs Victoria to inspect retailers across the state to ensure only legally compliant hoverboards are being sold and warned against purchasing off-brand imports.
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If the Department of Consumer Affairs doesn't see the signs posted in plain view, or if records aren't kept that prove that staff has been adequately trained, the legislation proposes that the venue would face fines up to $500.
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In a May 8 letter, which Zayner posted on social media, health officials from California's Department of Consumer Affairs asked him to come discuss a complaint filed against him and bring along a lawyer if he wants one present.
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Californias Department of Consumer Affairs told Reuters the complaint against Sulitzer filed in Sacramento on November 12 is expected to lead to a formal disciplinary hearing by the state's Office of Administrative Hearings, which has yet to schedule it.
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To make a long story short, we wanted her after we passed Dodd-Frank to be in charge of consumer affairs in the White House and the Republicans stopped her from doing that, so she ran for the Senate.
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On Wednesday the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs launched an investigation into the baby monitor industry's hackable vulnerabilities, sending subpoenas to four companies—which the agency has declined to name for now—demanding information about their security practices.
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The letter states that investigators are "reviewing a complaint of unlicensed practice of medicine" against Zayner, and the District Medical Consultant is seeking to talk with the biohackerThe California Department of Consumer Affairs did not respond to a request for comment.
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The state said inspections by its Division of Consumer Affairs showed that barcode scanners often scanned items such as oil filters and transmission fluid at prices higher than those posted, while prices for other goods were not posted at all.
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Dion Foulkes — the Bahamas' labor and consumer affairs minister, who is coordinating the evacuations — said that only about 200 people had chosen to stay on the islands, which will most likely start to feel the effects of Irma on Thursday evening.
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Mark Peters, the commissioner of the Department of Investigation, issued recommendations for the Department of Consumer Affairs to review and strengthen licensing requirements for towing companies, increase the frequency of inspections, and conduct more thorough background checks on owners and employees.
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"There is a real need to simplify the disclosure forms so that they communicate effectively to investors the information that they actually need to make decisions," says Cristina Martin Firvida, vice president for financial security and consumer affairs at AARP.
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She went on to an illustrious career on television game shows, and as a consultant and a public servant: She was appointed head of New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs in 1969 and was an adviser to three presidents.
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A spokesman for the State Division of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the board, said that the board "cannot comment on the reasons why Woodland has been in disrepair," and that it did not have the authority to provide aid to cemeteries.
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"Incentives such as overseas trips or bonuses for selling a certain amount of insurance policies can lead to sales staff pressuring customers into buying unsuitable products, like policies they can never claim on," said Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi.
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"During the last 20 months, we have been receiving complaints from the public that rich people are spending huge amounts during the marriages," said Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali, the state minister for the Department of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's consumer affairs show Marketplace recently tested meat samples from five Canadian fast food joints and said the chicken from two Subway sandwiches contained only 53.6 percent and 42.8 percent chicken DNA and most of the remaining DNA was soy.
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An oft-cited Consumer Affairs investigation from 2008 showed some pretty gnarly accounts of people doing simple things like putting a hot Pyrex pan in the oven only to have it explode in their hands, sending scalding shards of glass into their appendages.
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The city's health and consumer affairs departments will educate New Yorkers on the ban (and on Styrofoam alternatives) over the next six months, and once it goes into effect, there will be a six-month grace period before penalties can be imposed.
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She learned how Ms. Derraugh, who goes by Dana, treated sick puppies through methods that the consumer protection department, formerly known as the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, described in court papers as "crackpot, back-alley home remedies," including administering Robitussin.
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The city -- led by a top consumer affairs official -- said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that it has evidence that T-Mobile's prepaid wireless brand, Metro, has been selling cheaply made phones to customers and enrolling them in expensive plans without their consent.
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"I think it's incredibly important that we have one agency that soup-to-nuts is dealing with all of these various media and entertainment industries," Ms. Menin, previously the commissioner of the city's Department of Consumer Affairs, said in a recent interview.
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"We are simply reminding Alabamians that while this form resembles the general look of a census form, it is from a political party and is in no way related to the 2020 Census," Alabama Department of Consumer Affairs spokesperson Michael Presley told CNN.
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The city — led by a top consumer affairs official — said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that it has evidence that T-Mobile's prepaid wireless brand, Metro, has been selling cheaply made phones to customers and enrolling them in expensive plans without their consent.
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"When you couple higher interest rates with the desire to move from a hatchback or sedan to a utility vehicle, which are generally more expensive, you're seeing a pinch on affordability for a lot of shoppers," said Kelsey Mays, senior consumer affairs editor at Cars.com.
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De Blasio's last State of the City mostly included proposals that could be achieved through agency rulemaking, for example, such as creating an expanded Department of Consumer Affairs — now called the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection — and broadening the reach of 3K education.
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On Tuesday, Councilman Benjamin J. Kallos, a Manhattan Democrat, introduced legislation to the City Council's Consumer Affairs Committee that would force screening companies to provide more complete descriptions of housing court cases, including records that show when tenants won, or when an apartment was decrepit.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's consumer affairs show Marketplace worked with Matt Harnden, an employee at Trent University's Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory in Peterborough, Ontario, to test six chicken sandwiches purchased from five local fast food chains to see how much chicken DNA the meat contained.
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However, on Friday, a spokesperson for the California Department of Consumer Affairs told Business Insider that there was no stay on the order, and that if Lambda School is still operating while its registration is pending, it would be in violation of state law.
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When he testified on Capitol Hill in 2009, Dr. Melius cited the case of Leon Heyward, an inspector for the city's Department of Consumer Affairs, who had helped evacuate disabled co-workers from ground zero and later learned he had sarcoidosis, a respiratory disease.
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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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He is a former director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and is the author of Swiped: How to Protect Yourself In a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves, which debuted at #1 on the Amazon Hot New Releases List.
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Berkeley College, whose Manhattan campus has a men's basketball team with a 239-game winning streak, is one of four for-profit schools placed under investigation in 103 by New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs over concerns about high dropout and loan-default rates.
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Though justice and consumer affairs commissioner, Vera Jourova, signaled in January that her preference on hate speech at least was to continue pursuing the voluntary approach — though she also said some Member State's ministers are open to a new EU-level law should the voluntary approach fail.
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Kennedy is suing the medical board and its parent agency, the California Department of Consumer Affairs, saying the state did not have the legal right to subpoena school districts for his patients' medical records without first informing him so he could challenge the action in court.
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They were there for a press conference, because later that day councilman Rafael Espinal—chair of the committee on Consumer Affairs—would be conducting the first-ever city council oversight hearing on the Cabaret Law, a formal step required for Espinal to introduce legislation to repeal it.
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Jourova, the EU's commissioner for consumer affairs, has written to VW official Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz asking for proof that the carmaker can fulfill a pledge to make vehicles comply with limits on nitrogen oxide (NOx) fumes by autumn 2017, a Commission official told Reuters on Monday.
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"As a result of the ongoing CO2 shortage, we are producing nowhere near the 1.5 million packs of crumpets we usually make each week and have had to suspend production at a number of our bakeries," said Tearmh Taylor, corporate and consumer affairs manager at Warburtons.
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However, on Friday, Matt Woodcheke, public information officer with California's Department of Consumer Affairs, told Business Insider that there is no stay on the order, and that if Lambda School is still operating while its registration is pending, it would be in violation of state law.
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New York (CNN)A New Jersey oral surgeon has agreed to a five-year license suspension and nearly $300,000 in penalties after one of his patients died and 14 others suffered serious heart infections, according to Monday's press release from the NJ Division of Consumer Affairs.
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The CEO has been embroiled in controversy within the past five years with bold statements about Obamacare and political leanings as well as being accused in 2015 by the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs for consistently overcharging for some prepackaged food items in New York City stores.
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The city's Department of Consumer Affairs said last year that one in nine New York households did not have a bank account, and that one in five were "underbanked," meaning they had a checking or savings account but relied on something other than a bank to cash a check.
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Most of the medically unnecessary interventions happened for social reasons, rather than from immediate medical need, says Silvan Agius, who has worked in intersex and LGBT rights for many years, and is now director of human rights and integration at Malta's Ministry for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties.
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Ennis Leon Jacobs, Jr. is a former member and Chairman of the Florida Public Service Commission, having also served on the Committee on Electricity of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners ("NARUC"), as well as Chairman of the NARUC Committee on Consumer Affairs, and on the NARUC Board of Directors.
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My phone calls to this company bore no fruit, so I offered them a choice: If they didn't return half the money, I would report them to the consumer-affairs division of their state's attorney general's office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, register complaints on websites and so forth.
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On June 19, members of this program and other figures from New York City's nightlife scene gathered on the steps of city hall for a press conference in advance of the first ever oversight hearing on the Cabaret Law—instigated by Councilman Espinal, chair of the committee on Consumer Affairs.
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Facebook has been singled out for censure by the European Commission's head of consumer affairs who has warned she's running out of patience and said the company needs to make additional changes to its terms of service before the end of the year to bring them into line with the bloc's consumer rules.
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In 2008, the Bloomberg administration seemed to have a change of heart, and reports indicated that City Hall was looking to repeal the cabaret law altogether, with Gretchen Dykstra, then the commissioner of the city's Department of Consumer Affairs, telling the New York Times that she wanted to put "the dance police" out of business.
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And the state's comptroller's office lays out the plan for where that tax revenue would go: Up to 4 percent could be used for costs related to collecting the tax, and some money would go to state departments such as the agriculture, consumer affairs, public health and wildlife agencies to reimburse "reasonable costs" associated with enforcing the new law.
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"To turn something like election security, which is a critical, front-burner issue into something that feels skeezy and partisan is unacceptable when the Secretary of State has a constitutional responsibility to protect elections," Adam Levin, founder of identity protection firm CyberScout and former Director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, told me on the phone.
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You may want to think twice before you take a sip of your favorite iced coffee beverage this summer, especially if you're in the U.K. The BBC's consumer-affairs Watchdog program found that ice from three of the U.K.'s biggest coffee chains — Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Caffe Nero — had been contaminated with bacteria found in feces.
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My office did a project called Business Atlas where we took federal, state, and city data, things like liquor license data and a bunch of Department of Consumer Affairs Data, we took all this data created a view of businesses such that you could get a better sense of market research if you were trying to open up a business in that area.
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The Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs Committee is reviewing state insurance privacy protections regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information gathered in connection with insurance transactions, and a newly formed Artificial Intelligence Working Group, which is to study the development of artificial intelligence and its use in the insurance sector, will review privacy, marketplace dynamics, and the state-based insurance regulatory framework.
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