The committee will also examine whether competition laws can be integrated with consumer protection and consumer protection laws.
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That consumer protection agency specializes in consumer privacy protection and has a clear, consistent policy and consumer protection framework.
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A Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection holds a hearing to examine ways to improve how the Federal Trade Commission handles consumer protection cases and other reforms.
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What they said was the FTC should be more active in antitrust and in consumer protection, and now the Senate is going to ... Consumer protection I'm all for.
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Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) The Obama FCC adopted one of the most controversial anti-business rulings in decades, as it reinterpreted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
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Andrew Smith, who heads the FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau, would be in charge of handling investigations into some of the country's largest companies and any consumer protection violations that may occur.
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The law created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and gave this agency several responsibilities, including enforcing consumer protection laws, writing new consumer protection regulations, educating consumers, processing complaints and more.
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In this latest battle, Amazon claims the sites are in violation of various laws and acts, including the Lanham Act, Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, Washington Consumer Protection Act, and Washington Common Law.
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Three fundamental governance weaknesses were outlined in the review: -NO CONSUMER PROTECTION MANDATE: Board oversight of consumer protection is distributed across several committees, with no specific committee mandated to oversee sales practices.
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"State attorneys general have express statutory authority to enforce federal consumer protection laws, as well as the consumer protection laws of our respective states," the group of 18 said in a statement.
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The first issue is consumer protection and potential consumer harm.
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Nigeria's Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has opened its own investigation.
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These rules are promulgated in the name of consumer protection.
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He said Nestle Purina's marketing violated state consumer protection laws.
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And I would add, especially in the consumer protection agency.
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Call your state representative or your local consumer protection office.
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It oversees issues as diverse as consumer protection and encryption.
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In short, consumer protection would be left to the market.
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Europe enjoys the highest consumer protection standards on the planet.
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SORKIN: WHAT ABOUT THEVOLCKER RULE AND THE CONSUMER PROTECTION BUREAU?
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"Well it could [pose a consumer protection question]," said Sen.
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The consumer protection agency had questioned the company's sales methods.
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That would block the regulation, killing the new consumer protection.
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There is no competition, no other options, no consumer protection.
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Ms. English is no stranger to the consumer protection bureau.
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They also lack the consumer protection benefits of federal loans.
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The Consumer Protection bureau has been highly scrutinized under Mulvaney.
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Changes to Obamacare's consumer protection rules are harder to predict.
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The FTC's critical consumer protection mission should not be undermined.
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Consumer protection is a glimmering jewel in the EU's crown.
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He likes her approach to antitrust regulation and consumer protection.
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A major concern for lawmakers and regulators has been consumer protection.
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According to The Guardian, the UK-based consumer protection group Which?
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Additionally, the sector lacks consumer protection laws and customer-identification requirements.
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Now Virginia is suing the company for violating consumer protection laws.
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He will probably focus on consumer protection issues, given his background.
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The changes would be reflected in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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This is a consumer protection issue if there ever was one.
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This created a single market, with consumer protection and product regulation.
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Brazil's biggest consumer-protection group called the ban "disproportionate and harmful".
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She has no prior experience in consumer protection or financial law.
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The federal consumer protection bureau has jurisdiction over seller-financed transactions.
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This meant consumer protection on financial matters fell through the cracks.
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NICK MULVANEY WILL BE THE DIRECTOR OF THE CONSUMER PROTECTION BUREAU.
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The new responsibility for consumer protection is in some ways similar.
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The consumer protection division currently has 38 lawyers and 37 investigators.
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The more visible concern is consumer protection, particularly protections for privacy.
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He continued to focus on competition and consumer protection issues there.
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These easy fixes would improve both consumer protection and animal welfare.
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Sometimes consumer protection regulations foster competition and lower barriers to entry.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took on those consumer protection roles.
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Deregulation supporter named head of FTC consumer protection bureau: The acting chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday selected a lawyer and prominent advocate of deregulation to lead the agency's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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One of Uber's biggest risks lies in impending class actions filed under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a consumer protection law that prohibits auto dialer calls and texts to consumer telephones without express written consent.
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Disclosures and other requirements of major consumer protection regulations will be discussed.
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Government enforcement is vital for animal protection, consumer protection and governmental accountability.
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Hood's track record suggests the current probe could expand into consumer protection.
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I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created.
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So now this civil liberties fight is also a consumer protection fight.
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Investors may soon see a much needed increase to consumer protection standards.
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That's why government consumer protection agencies were established to provide healthy oversight.
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Further, applicants are also protected by state consumer protection and privacy laws.
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Sadly, the days of consumer protection at the FCC are long gone.
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He specializes in business and securities law, corporate governance and consumer protection.
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Another 16 people in the whistleblower/consumer protection office will continue working.
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It should bolster consumer protection, not gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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In 2014, Oz was called before a Senate subcommittee on consumer protection.
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He accused See's of violating California consumer protection and false advertising laws.
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The consumer protection rule isn't scheduled to be fully effective until Jan.
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The Los Angeles city attorney's office frequently takes on consumer-protection cases.
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I called for the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau before it was created.
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It also revived a claim under a New York state consumer protection law.
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The American Bankers Association said it supports the work of consumer protection officials.
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Massachusetts is seeking $5,000 for each violation of the state's consumer protection laws.
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Democratic decision making on safety standards, environmental standards, consumer protection, privacy protection, etc.
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But analysts at MoffettNathanson told clients that consumer-protection argument won't hold up.
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Consumer protection groups and trade organizations will also publish integrity and transparency scores.
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There are, however, state consumer protection laws that could be applied towards dealers.
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Emphasis will be on fair lending issues, disclosures and major consumer protection rules.
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I'm much more interested today in these kinds of immediate consumer protection reforms.
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"This is a good step," Joel Winston, a consumer protection lawyer, told Gizmodo.
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The consumer protection regulations are so popular that Republicans never talk about them.
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The suit is against the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection.
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"Most states' consumer protection statutes broadly prohibit unfair and deceptive conduct," Rathod said.
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The Director's view of consumer protection law and policy prevails over all others.
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In that legislation, the CFPB was created as an independent consumer-protection agency.
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They were specifically designed to neuter the country's most important consumer protection agency.
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State lawyers are already investigating possible violations of securities and consumer protection laws.
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In 2005, Biden voted for the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act.
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Libra skeptics have largely focused on consumer protection concerns and money-laundering vulnerabilities.
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Before that, she worked on consumer protection issues in North Carolina and Vermont.
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Watch: FTC consumer protection director on YouTube's $170M fine for violating kids' privacy
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In February, the consumer protection agency fined the music video-sharing app Music.
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"We still haven't come to consumer protection norms" around aging products, Hoofnagle said.
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The bureau took over responsibility for consumer protection regulation from seven federal agencies.
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WATCH: FTC consumer protection director on YouTube's $170M fine for violating kids' privacy
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As Utah's attorney general, Mr. Reyes has broad jurisdiction on consumer protection issues.
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California legislators are also considering regulating broadband providers directly via consumer protection laws.
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Today the consumer protection wave of the past appears to be in retreat.
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U.S. regulators have repeatedly voiced concern about crypto market manipulation and consumer protection.
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Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic senator from Connecticut and the ranking member of the Senate's consumer protection subcommittee, said in an interview that regardless of his recusals, Mr. Smith had the wrong résumé to run the nation's top consumer protection office.
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Calls for restricting the power of the consumer protection board should be rejected outright.
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In fact, drugs get approved so quickly now that consumer protection groups are complaining.
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The remaining funds would go toward consumer protection, including privacy and data security enforcement.
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The committee has oversight on issues of internet communications, consumer protection and media issues.
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Some Google critics have argued consumer protection could be part of an antitrust argument.
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In the lawsuit, Virginia is accusing Cephalon of violating the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.
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Instead, maybe this lawsuit is about consumer protection: making corporations sit up and listen.
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That there are money laundering issues, there's financial stability issues, there's consumer protection issues.
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Facebook, according to the suit, violated the Consumer Protection Procedures Act through its actions.
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She advocates for government transparency and integrity, financial reform, civil justice and consumer protection.
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The FCC is currently figuring out the scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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The Minnesota politician's priorities include affordable health care, online consumer protection and election security.
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It lets the free market help steer us in the direction of consumer protection.
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Paul Kantwill, who recently left a position at the consumer protection agency, told me.
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The CFPB has proven to be the most effective consumer protection agency ever created.
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Over all, products of all kinds have been getting safer, consumer protection experts said.
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The CFPB risks becoming a shell with desks and people -- and no consumer protection.
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Some Americans may doubt Trump-appointee Kathy Kraninger's qualifications and commitment to consumer protection.
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If this sounds like a violation of FDA's consumer protection rules, you are right.
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That's a huge fear among many Democrats, liberal non-profits and consumer protection groups.
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The legislation also created a new consumer protection watchdog to guard against predatory lending.
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But the appeal of public banks extends beyond consumer protection to sound fiscal policy.
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Rather, consumer protection was rolled into the missions of a bunch of different agencies.
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Schakowsky is chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee.
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He's the sponsor of a bill that would increase consumer protection for cruise passengers.
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Recent articles have documented enforcement slowdowns in financial regulation, consumer protection, and environmental regulation.
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Claims alleging violations of state consumer protection and unfair trade laws were also dismissed.
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Legal experts have said options include consumer protection laws and "blue sky" securities laws.
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AT&T also agreed to adopt new consumer protection measures, according to the commission.
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The most serious consumer protection rollback involves banks reporting on the mortgages they offer.
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And then the FTC coming at it from a consumer protection point of view.
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State regulators are concerned that new charter would threaten their sovereignty and consumer protection.
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As our prosecutorial record makes clear, consumer protection is one of our highest priorities.
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These powerful consumer protection tools apply to all companies regardless of their market power.
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SAS paid a $22,000 fine and threw in $20,203 for future consumer protection efforts.
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They believe antitrust and consumer protection laws suffice for government oversight of the sector.
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The committee's consumer protection subpanel is also set to review the BOTS Act. Rep.
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TV, noting Warren's record on anti-corruption and founding of the Consumer Protection Bureau.
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Volkswagen said that settlement was to resolve existing and potential state consumer protection claims.
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But she does not appear to have experience crafting or enforcing consumer protection laws.
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Why it's controversial: Those plans would not meet many of ObamaCare's consumer protection rules.
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Those worries are overblown, according to Michael Bruemmer, Experian's vice president of consumer protection.
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The FTC's consumer-protection authority can only enforce the promises that a company makes.
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More than a million Americans — the victims of companies that broke consumer protection laws.
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And, unlike a typical consumer card, many business cards aren't covered by consumer protection laws.
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Broadly speaking, he said, state consumer protection laws are based on unfair or deceptive practices.
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Advocates say that student loan servicers have failed to guide borrowers to the consumer protection.
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Cover image: Taiwan's Consumer Protection Department shared this image to urge consumers not to panic.
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The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), which came into full effect as recently as Jan.
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The top Democrat and Republican on the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, Rep.
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According to the lawsuit, these calls may have violated the FCC's Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Herring said he uncovered these details in an investigation conducted by his Consumer Protection Section.
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He works to ensure that financial institutions comply with fair-lending and consumer- protection laws.
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"Platforms' collection of consumer data creates privacy concerns touching on consumer protection," the letter states.
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She also cited consumer protection, animal welfare and maintaining competitiveness of German agriculture as priorities.
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The remaining money will be then distributed to eight data privacy and consumer protection organizations.
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It's essentially a consumer protection law — unlike Title IX, which is a civil rights issue.
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The consumer protection agency announced on Thursday afternoon a dramatic upgrade to the website IdentityTheft.
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And they aren't open to the mass public, so they evade consumer protection regulation too.
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The scheme has little to do with consumer protection and everything to do with cronyism.
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Some experts on consumer protection say the new contracts create more potential for bad behavior.
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"We will enhance the provisions for consumer protection and strengthen cyber security requirements," he added.
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The privately held companies could still face charges for false advertising or consumer protection issues.
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The result was the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
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As the FTC emphasized earlier this fall, stopping fraud is its largest consumer protection program.
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This consumer protection principle will soon be tested across a much wider range of products.
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Privacy and other consumer protection enforcement encourages businesses to shun, rather than replicate, irresponsible practices.
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Syeed argues in the lawsuit that the campaign has violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Mulvaney has gutted consumer protection in the mortgage market.
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He is an expert in antitrust, consumer protection, financial services, intellectual property, and healthcare competition.
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The future of the CFPB and consumer protection generally may depend on their continuing advocacy.
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Mulvaney was not a fan of consumer protection regulation generally or the CFPB in particular.
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Lawmakers on the Senate Commerce consumer protection subcommittee blasted the company's handling of the breach.
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On consumer protection, they've joined a lawsuit to preserve Obama-era rules protecting student borrowers.
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He did that for years as a congressman, defending bankers and fending off consumer protection.
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Porter is well aware that bankruptcy law and consumer protection aren't the most scintillating subjects.
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He is ranking member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions.
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Markey was also one of the original co-authors of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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He is an expert in antitrust, consumer protection, financial services, intellectual property and healthcare competition.
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Smith will testify before members of the subcommittee focused on digital commerce and consumer protection.
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This whole thing is clearly in no way justifiable in the name of consumer protection.
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However, rather than having widespread criminal prosecutorial powers, state AGs utilize broad consumer protection authority.
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U.S. financial watchdogs have been balancing consumer protection and innovation in the multibillion-dollar market.
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It seeks a variety of damages for violations of several states&apos consumer protection laws.
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JustFab paid $1.8 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit for misleading advertising in 2014.
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I see Elizabeth's work starting the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau and helping 29 million people.
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But today, we are putting our nation's premier consumer protection cop back on the beat.
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"Today is milestone in consumer protection," FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf, said during a conference call.
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Over the last decade, the FTC has brought more than 50 data security consumer protection cases.
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Depending on state consumer protection laws, such cases can be valuable recourse for a wronged consumer.
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Consumers deserve a consumer protection advocate in this position, not a hired gun for corporate sharks.
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Consumer protection laws certainly aren't always consumer-friendly, and the ALI's restatement accurately reflects some verdicts.
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"Today, no one is spared from this consumer protection pandemic," Markey said ahead of the vote.
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It also wants to see sharing economy platforms be more transparent about their consumer protection obligations.
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Missouri is launching an investigation into whether Google has broken its consumer protection and antitrust laws.
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Most commercial robocalls have been illegal since 1991, when Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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The raids were carried out together with officials from the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.
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"At the core of our action today is consumer protection," Inslee told The New York Times.
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For that reason, Brainard said, those lenders can set high standards in consumer protection and privacy.
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The remaining money will be distributed to eight organizations dedicated to data privacy and consumer protection.
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Amongst those potential areas of further inquiry, I think are privacy, consumer protection and anti-trust.
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It alleges the company violated the Federal Wiretap Act, among other privacy and consumer protection laws.
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This regulator should have the explicit goals of economic efficiency and growth, along with consumer protection.
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Landry's office is using its consumer protection hotline to ask GoFundMe users to report suspected fraudsters.
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Maureen Ohlhausen named Thomas Pahl to be acting director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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Consumers can delete them — a consumer protection that Amazon also cites with its Amazon Echo Look.
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The suits were filed by Z LAW, a "consumer protection law firm," according to its website.
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A deregulation advocate was tapped to be the acting head of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Poland's consumer protection watchdog on Thursday said it had initiated proceedings against Volkswagen (VOWG_p.
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In her suit, she asserted Twitter was violating consumer protection laws against unsolicited calls and texts.
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This has created a baseline of consumer protection and safety mechanisms for the financial technology ecosystem.
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Corporations that hold enormous amounts of consumer data simply haven't made consumer protection the top priority.
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And the subcommittee on digital commerce and consumer protection, chaired by Latta, will include Republican Reps.
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I don't know how to compromise when somebody wants to repeal Dodd–Frank and consumer protection.
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Verbraucherzentrale NRW, the German consumer protection group which took Fashion ID to court, welcomed the ruling.
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And third: What dimensions of this market might require regulatory intervention for purposes of "consumer protection"?
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The consumer protection agency ended its probe into Google's search service back in 2013 without charges.
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We need not just privacy law, but consumer protection law for the age of big data.
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She's also an academic, and one of the foremost U.S. experts on bankruptcy and consumer protection.
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One of the roles of the federal board is to promote consumer protection and community development.
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The House Commerce consumer protection subcommittee holds a hearing on self-driving cars at 10 a.m.
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Mimi Walters is running against Democrat Katie Porter, a consumer protection lawyer and Elizabeth Warren protégée.
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"One of the areas I will be looking at in particular is consumer protection," Miller said.
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Hogan suggested that the California Consumer Protection Act could be more influential on U.S. ad spend.
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The claim that the consumer bureau "doesn't add much at all to consumer protection" is inaccurate.
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"At the core of our action today is consumer protection," Mr. Inslee said in an interview.
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"It's a consumer protection issue," said Judge Lee V. Coffee, a criminal court judge in Memphis.
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Consumer protection advocates said the Senate version did not go far enough to address the problem.
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The budget director is doing double duty as the acting head of the consumer protection agency.
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When it comes to financial consumer protection state attorneys general wield an additional potentially powerful weapon.
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Letter similarly warned that killing the agency would completely upend consumer protection in the financial sector.
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That's actually a big loophole in terms of consumer protection, privacy protections related to health data.
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State regulators have opposed the federal charter arguing that it could lead to weaker consumer protection.
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But Kavanaugh found no such checks on the CFPB director's power to enforce consumer protection laws.
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Director Cordray has our unyielding support as the leader of America's most important consumer protection agency.
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Of course, the consumer protection provisions of existing student loan programs have troubles of their own.
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Benway is a former chief of staff at the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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They say existing antitrust and consumer protection laws are already sufficient to secure an open internet.
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He is an expert in antitrust, consumer protection, financial services, intellectual property and health care competition.
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If a company says it's going to do bad things, then consumer protection won't stop it.
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The FTC is a great antitrust and consumer-protection agency and its work is vitally important.
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Nonetheless, arguments in favor of repeal were cloaked in language of consumer friendliness, of consumer protection.
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Finally, he was transferred to Ms. Broder, the Federal Trade Commission's counsel for international consumer protection.
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It must also pay an outside monitor to review its compliance with various consumer protection rules.
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Ed ChauSacramento The writer is chairman of the California Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection.
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Bullock says Montana was pushed to action thanks to federal apathy on the consumer protection front.
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The top federal watchdog for consumer protection is investigating potential privacy violations by the social network.
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Position: ChairmanNominee: Joe SimonsThe FTC is the U.S. government's consumer protection, privacy, security and competition cop.
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The passage of S. 2628, the so-called Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, in May was a watershed event because it was the first significant broad-ranging legislative change to the historic Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed in 28503.
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The consumer protection agency wrote the rule after conducting a lengthy, multi-year study of the issue.
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed in 2250 added even more restrictions.
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And finally, we need a major increase in consumer protection of our privacy rights in this industry.
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There is undoubtedly ample scope for improving the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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But to everyone within the industry they know it's a Wall Street reform and consumer protection act.
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In addition to federal law, each state has its own laws that govern privacy and consumer protection.
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Why it matters: The FTC is the nation's consumer protection agency — but it's currently short three commissioners.
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CFPB, a case Kavanaugh ruled on that deemed the leadership structure of the consumer protection agency unconstitutional.
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"Consumer protection and antitrust enforcement never has been and never should be a partisan issue," Blumenthal said.
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Brill, a Democrat with expertise in privacy and consumer protection, has been on the commission since 2010.
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Many Republicans say they support a financial consumer protection agency, though one with a more conventional structure.
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The finance ministry's review will look at the promotion of mini-bonds and consumer protection, Glen said.
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Consumer complaint and inquiry phone lines cannot be answered Consumer protection and local competition enforcement must cease.
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It also alleged violations of California consumer protection laws for what it claimed were unconscionable warranty provisions.
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And using our consumer protection statutes, we will hold them liable, with both civil and criminal penalties.
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But also encryption is necessary as a form of consumer protection from scammers, thieves, stalkers, and abusers.
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Missouri's attorney general is investigating Google for potential violations of the state's competition and consumer protection laws.
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Bob Latta (R-Ohio), chairman of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on digital commerce and consumer protection.
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Hyundai said it agreed to settle state consumer protection claims but didn't admit to violating any laws.
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The agency had tried twice before to establish rules for competition and consumer protection on the internet.
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The common thread was that these U.S. consumer protection laws had extremely minor impact on foreign nations.
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The only thing consumer protection advocates have going for them is the extreme unpopularity of such schemes.
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Dubbed The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, it cruised through the committee in January.
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Those companies are instead required to follow general consumer protection rules enforced by the Federal Trade Commission.
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A judge Thursday allowed a lawsuit claiming that Uber's technology violates consumer protection laws to go forward.
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The House Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection will examine legislation on self-driving cars at 10 a.m.
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The plan will include repealing most of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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You can also find some concise consumer protection guidelines on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's website: consumerfinance.gov.
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If they're confirmed, they'll be tasked with overseeing major mergers and enforcing privacy and consumer protection laws.
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The California legislature has given city attorneys the authority to enforce state consumer protection and environmental laws.
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For now, the FTC is America's de facto data-privacy regulator based on its consumer-protection mandate.
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The Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection holds a hearing on agricultural technology at 2:30 p.m.
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Each has a consumer protection division or can direct you to the appropriate agency in your area.
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Bob Latta (R-Ohio), who leads the House Energy and Commerce's Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee.
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In fact, comprehensive oversight is welcome when the emphasis is properly placed on consumer protection and notification.
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She also testified for a presidential commission on consumer protection and quality in the health care industry.
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This would also impact lawyers working on non-immigration civil cases, like those involved in consumer protection.
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The punishments came after it ordered Coincheck to shore up consumer protection and curbs on money laundering.
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Rich served as director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection from 2013 to 2017.
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And the fact that we have a state of emergency doesn't change that emphasis on consumer protection.
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But the head of the Colombian consumer protection agency, a presidential appointee, sided with the industry petitioners.
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Sivalingam, 33, is a trial lawyer at the consumer protection branch of the Justice Department in Washington.
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That view, as Klobuchar noted, can limit regulatory safeguards on the job, environmental rules and consumer protection.
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Our recall authorities -- and how we deploy them -- are a cornerstone of our vital, consumer protection mission.
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The bride, 28, is a lawyer in the consumer protection branch of the Justice Department in Washington.
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Healey plans to investigate whether Juul violated Massachusetts' consumer protection statute and the state's e-cigarette regulations.
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The digital assets also raised flags over consumer protection, market integrity and money laundering, the bank said.
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For decades, the office was best known for bringing consumer protection cases and had remarkable little turnover.
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In July 28503, the United States passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Warren fought for consumer protection from the excesses of big banks long before most voters knew Sen.
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The prerecorded messages were allegedly sent without consent and violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA.
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Mulvaney has said his goals are to enforce consumer protection laws and meet the CFPB's legal obligations.
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Check with your state attorney general or consumer protection office to see if you have this right.
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"We're all in favor of regulation and oversight and consumer protection, but this overreached," Mr. Purcell said.
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It's an expert agency on consumer protection, and it has investigated and cited Facebook in the past.
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But he was also known for his vigorous antitrust enforcement and efforts at environmental and consumer protection.
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Apple also played up its privacy features, addressing the U.S. technology sector's increased scrutiny over consumer protection.
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And Massachusetts is pursuing FedLoan over what officials there say are violations of state consumer protection laws.
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Congress passed the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act in 2004, a rule book for manufacturers.
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The bills are on issues like the opioid crisis and consumer protection, including banning lead in toys.
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The OECD has produced standards on bribery, consumer protection and the responsible sourcing of minerals, among many others.
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From a legal standpoint, some Wall Street analysts argue that Democrats' consumer-protection arguments might not have teeth.
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That move dovetails with the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act that Congress passed last year.
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The Munich court has sided with the organization, and ruled that the Dash buttons break consumer protection rules.
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Now, Goop has agreed to pay $145,000 in civil penalties in a consumer protection lawsuit over the claims.
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"We still want the KID to be applied in time for the sake of consumer protection," she said.
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N, managers of the more than $933 billion hedge fund met with executives at the consumer protection company.
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He has served as magistrate of Taoyuan County, and vice premier and minister of the Consumer Protection Commission.
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The Committee on Consumer Protection, which Thomas chairs, is scheduled to hold a hearing on the bill Tuesday.
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But thanks to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, that can't easily happen again.
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"Libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability," he told the committee.
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The regulator's primary concern was consumer protection, according to Charles Hayter, founder of digital currency comparison website CryptoCompare.
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"Libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability," Powell said last week.
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Absent strong U.S. regulation, however, the New Jersey Democrat said other countries had become better consumer-protection cops.
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But German consumer protection agency VZBV said on Monday the "Autopilot" system should not be on the roads.
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"It's basically like you have no privacy, they're taking it all," said Joel Winston, a consumer protection lawyer.
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Will Republicans make the same mistake on reforming the disastrous Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act?
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Photo: GettyComcast violated the Consumer Protection Act a whopping 445,000 times, a Washington State court ruled on Thursday.
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They're asking the committee's leadership to hold a hearing to consider rewriting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
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Trump still needs to nominate one more Democrat to get the consumer protection agency back to full strength.
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When Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in 1991, the world was a very different place.
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They want to turn CFPB into a commission to promote "more effective consumer protection," Hunt and Fine wrote.
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We utilize cutting edge analytics and other advancements for investigations and prosecutions, increasing public safety and consumer protection.
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Over the years, the two agencies earned a reputation for impartial, even aggressive, enforcement of consumer protection regulations.
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Last Thursday Massachusetts' Attorney General filed a suit alleging that the company violated the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act.
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Officials from law enforcement and consumer protection agencies said they are working closely with businesses to combat counterfeits.
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Balto is an antitrust attorney based in Washington D.C. specializing in consumer protection, intellectual property, and health care.
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Consumer protection advocates weren't initially thrilled with CFPB's proposal, and the final rule still gives reason for concern.
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Regulation will force policymakers to balance consumer protection and prevention of money laundering with allowing innovation in markets.
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The financial watchdog is balancing on consumer protection and innovation in what has become multi-billion dollar market.
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A new consumer protection rule that recently went into effect requires advisers to act in your best interest.
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The Federal Communications Commission, for its part, states countering robocalls is Chairman Ajit Pai's top consumer-protection priority.
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Without a robust consumer protection bureau, they would be in danger of similar abusive practices in the future.
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The primary policy response to the crisis was the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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They are free, for example, to suspend licenses for violations of state law concerning fraud or consumer protection.
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A top consumer protection regulator will consider the ways companies disclose information, including their privacy policies, to customers.
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Democrats are concerned the bill could instead kneecap much of the agency's rules and other consumer protection authority.
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Dispute resolution overseen by this regulator is shaping energy policy, providing consumer protection and legal certainty for investors.
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The DOT said it is reviewing the latest incident to ensure United complied with all consumer protection rules.
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The Federal Trade Commission, and its Bureau of Consumer Protection, could also buttress what the F.C.C. has achieved.
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The House Commerce consumer protection subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing for the FTC at 9:15 a.m.
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The financial watchdog has been balancing consumer protection and innovation in what has become multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency market.
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For example, are we also going back to the old system of consumer protection in the financial industry?
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Often, consumers who are approved for the cards can't cobble together a deposit, the consumer protection bureau reported.
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The consumer protection and competition agency has been led by just two commissioners over the last 10 months.
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Some states have been so overwhelmed by calls to consumer protection hotlines that they have recruited outside help.
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While a hardworking compliance team monitored school finances and student eligibility, we needed people specializing in consumer protection.
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For evidence of that, look no further than the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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The CFPB's evolution has helped to do one thing: raise public awareness of consumer protection issues, Jun said.
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If ringless voice mail could avoid consumer protection rules, "it would be a free-for-all," he said.
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Yet its success depends on the actions of insurers, state consumer protection regulators, plan sponsors and customers themselves.
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One of the few consumer protection guardrails we have in our higher education system is the accreditation process.
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They rely on complaints they receive from the public or from consumer protection organizations or even disgruntled competitors.
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Germany's consumer protection watchdog brought the case against Amazon, and says it is advocating for customers who complained.
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The consumer protection agency going after spinners, he said, was "a gang of freeloaders sitting on our necks."
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Unlike federal student loans, private loans often come with high-interest rates and lack many consumer protection benefits.
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The changes could shift many of their efforts on consumer protection handed off to the Federal Trade Commission.
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For months, lawmakers and consumer protection groups have railed against YouTube, alleging violations of the children's privacy law.
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The consortium of attorneys general is trying to determine if Facebook endangered consumer protection and limited consumer choice.
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Indeed, some of Mr. Trump's supporters saw no conflict between voting for both him and consumer protection laws.
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"Jessica Rich, a former consumer protection director at the Federal Trade Commission, called the findings "significant and disturbing.
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Warren's idea for a consumer protection agency, first proposed a few years prior, appeared to fit the bill.
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Uber will testify before the Senate Commerce consumer protection subcommittee on its 2016 data breach at 3 p.m.
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The U.S. Transportation Department fined American, Delta Air Lines and Frontier last week for violating consumer protection rules.
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A draft bipartisan proposal from the top members of the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, Reps.
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He's been at the CFPB, the consumer protection agency established under the Dodd-Frank financial reform, since 2011.
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Beyond asset threshold adjustments and community bank relief, the bill also throws in some marginal consumer protection provisions.
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The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) This 1999 law was aimed at preventing people from cybersquatting as well.
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That would include the Facebook probe, according to David Vladeck, a former director of the FTC's consumer protection bureau.
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The Commission under his leadership has also taken unprecedented enforcement actions to punish those who flout consumer protection laws.
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The Connecticut court rejected that theory, instead saying the families could bring their claims under the consumer protection statute.
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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act are now under threat by a Republican-controlled government.
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Pallone, from New Jersey, is the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees consumer protection.
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As of three weeks ago, the U.S Consumer Protection Safety Commission has discovered 12 cases of hoverboards catching fire.
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"As the video game industry has rapidly evolved, we have remained vigilant for potential consumer protection issues," he said.
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In 2014, it paid $1.8 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit over a similar membership program fee issue.
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The FTC currently operates as an independent agency charged with regulating consumer protection issues and enforcing federal antitrust law.
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Katie Porter, a former consumer protection lawyer who has grilled the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Equifax and Wells Fargo.
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The TCPA, or Telephone Consumer Protection Act, requires consent in writing from a recipient of any marketing SMS messages.
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Massachusetts is seeking monetary penalties against the company, asking for $5,000 per each violation under Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act.
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In the interim, the FCC is justifying its hands off approach to consumer protection using data that's largely inaccurate.
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"Since the beginning of 2017, fighting illegal robocalls has been the FCC's top consumer protection priority," Pai's statement reads.
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On Thursday, a German court ruled that Amazon's Dash buttons violate the country's consumer protection laws, according to Reuters.
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Concerns about money laundering, consumer protection, and financial stability do not disappear even when the cryptography works as promised.
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A Commission spokeswoman said it was up to national authorities to enforce EU rules on data and consumer protection.
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So increasingly we will see governments stepping in to oversee how they operate with an eye on consumer protection.
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Such decisions point towards how to deal with day-to-day crypto-risks, from money-laundering to consumer protection.
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"Libra raises serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection, financial stability," Powell said at a congressional committee Wednesday.
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Your department, the SEC & any other consumer protection bureaus need to do the jobs we hired you to do!
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My agenda is to, as you say, play defense, to make sure we have a vibrant consumer protection agency.
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Trump on Monday declared this week National Consumer Protection Week, underscoring the need to increase awareness about cyber crime.
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He likely will want to issue three main rules to build on the Obama administration's legacy in consumer protection.
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Not only that, but the FCC is explicitly preventing state consumer protection laws from taking effect regarding net neutrality.
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The FTC vets major mergers — including Amazon's proposed acquisition of Whole Foods — and investigates violations of consumer protection law.
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It could become a consumer protection issue as customers often end up paying higher prices because of those fees.
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San Francisco's City Attorney Dennis Herrera said the court's decision on Monday was an important step for consumer protection.
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The beneficiaries of this rigged system refuse to compromise and are working to undermine this much-needed consumer protection.
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Currently, higher education consumer protection relies on a combination of state regulation, accreditation and market forces to ensure quality.
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Worse yet, he has shifted the bureau's focus from consumer protection to easing the regulatory burden on financial firms.
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In a 2018 Telephone Consumer Protection Act case against the mortgage servicer Ocwen, the company filed nearly 4,000 claims.
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I personally witnessed the final negotiations of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act conference committee.
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The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security holds a hearing at 3 p.m.
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Consumer protection groups, progressive nonprofits and Democratic lawmakers have fiercely defended the payday rule from Republican and industry attacks.
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Mulvaney stressed his commitment to doing nothing beyond enforcing consumer protection laws and fulfilling his obligations as CFPB director.
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Similarly 72 percent of respondents support not charging sick people higher premiums, another ACA consumer protection currently in place.
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This legislation reflects a decades-long effort by those interested in consumer protection to define and prohibit pyramid schemes.
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Policymakers know that better data protection is essential for effective consumer protection, but this issue goes beyond protecting consumers.
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The ride-hailing company was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday for allegedly violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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"It's the psychological toll of the uncertainty," said Jonathan A. Harris, the commissioner of the State Consumer Protection Department.
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Fifteen years ago, Linda J. and Robert Tofolowsky filed a formal complaint with the Consumer Protection Department against Mottes.
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Věra Jourová, the EU's consumer protection chief, thinks the incident underscores why privacy regulations like the GDPR are crucial.
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If a scammer is ripping off residents, the city may not be able to bring a consumer protection suit.
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The joint investigation involved several state agencies, including the Insurance Department, the Banking Department and the Consumer Protection Department.
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Acodeco, a Panama government consumer protection agency, advised shoppers to take reusable bags with them when they go shopping.
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She has launched a non-profit, Natural Advisory Council, dedicated to advocating for consumer protection legislation for natural products.
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This jumble of overlapping financial regulators has created a confusing mess with regard to the standards of consumer protection.
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State AGs are empowered and entrusted to enforce a wide range of laws, including consumer protection and competition laws.
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Porter has spent her career as a consumer protection attorney going after big banks financial institutions that cheat consumers.
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That's the kind of regulation that scientists and kratom advocates would like to see: consumer protection and quality control.
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In November, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a multimillion-dollar consumer protection lawsuit against the transportation company.
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The CFPB focuses on consumer protection in the financial sector, and oversees banks, credit unions and other U.S. firms.
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As attorneys general, we need to evaluate and address specific conduct, utilizing our existing antitrust and consumer protection laws.
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When she spoke up, Colombia's consumer protection agency barred her from talking about the link between sugar and obesity.
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"It's a good thing," said Susan Grant, director of consumer protection and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America.
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"It would also vitiate the important consumer protection of having a prohibition against annual and lifetime caps" on benefits.
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But Dixon's explanation is not good enough for other regulators, lawyers, privacy campaigners and consumer protection groups around Europe.
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It created Medicare and Medicaid, as well as Head Start and other anti-poverty, environmental and consumer protection initiatives.
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"The Dodd-Frank Act brought us consumer protection and safety and soundness provisions," Warner said during a panel discussion.
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Shakowsky had recently hosted a hearing on deepfakes and digital deception in the consumer protection subcommittee, which she chairs.
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Sohn said with the FCC effectively giving up on consumer protection, it's well within states' rights to step in.
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Thune also told reporters that he was pursuing the inquiry because of the Commerce Committee's interest in consumer protection.
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These attacks are all the more reason for Congress to be focused on the public interest and consumer protection.
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After the financial crisis hit, Congress enacted the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.
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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) was enacted in 2023 to protect Americans from unwanted and intrusive telemarketing calls.
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"The student debt crisis is a consumer protection crisis, and that is where this committee comes in," Frotman said.
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Consumer protection was, in a lot of ways, her first political campaign in selling an idea to the public.
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"While we take all feedback seriously, we believe strongly that we are compliant with consumer protection laws," she wrote.
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The consumer-protection measure aims to prevent individuals' exposure to drugs that could be counterfeit, stolen, contaminated or otherwise harmful.
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Police were looking at whether laws, including the consumer protection law and the food law, had been broken, he said.
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They warn of a proliferation of lawsuits, saying EU citizens already enjoy some of the world's strongest consumer protection rules.
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On Tuesday, Russia's consumer protection agency attempted to calm panicked parents by announcing that it will investigate the zombifying spinner.
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Both men are suing the tech giant for damages, alleging disability discrimination, violations of the Consumer Protection Act and negligence.
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The investigation found that Facebook violated the District's Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA), which prohibits unfair and deceptive trade practices.
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The state and the couple sued Stutzman in 2013, alleging that she violated state anti-discrimination and consumer protection laws.
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"It is being used as credit, but it doesn't come with the consumer protection that normally covers credit," said Weinstock.
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"People rely on reviews when they're shopping online," Andrew Smith, the FTC's director of consumer protection, said in a statement.
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Last Friday the Department of Transportation (DOT) fined Frontier Airlines, American Airlines, and Delta for violating various consumer protection rules.
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It transferred responsibility for consumer protection from the ministry for commerce and investment to the health minister, Tawfiq al-Rabeeah.
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As Gusto's CSO, Lee will lead the company's information and physical security strategies, including consumer protection, compliance, governance and risk.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is considering opening an investigation into potential violations of antitrust and consumer-protection laws, Bloomberg reported.
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Financial services industry lobbyists should remember that fair lending laws and consumer protection laws are in place for a reason.
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On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee's tech subcommittee will host a hearing on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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California has begun to take the lead on this, finding a balance between consumer protection, corporate responsibility, and government regulation.
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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection will hold a hearing on self-driving cars.
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The lawsuit accuses the company of violating New York consumer-protection law with its marketing of the popular Beggin' products.
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That it is under this bureau and not the bureau of consumer protection gives a good indicator of its purpose.
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In addition, Rubin wrote that the Office of Enforcement would disregard consumer protection investigation ideas with no explanation or discussion.
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"Whether and, if so, to what extent investors would benefit from stronger consumer protection now needs careful thought," Tyrie said.
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Republicans wanted the waiver flexibility to be meaningful, while Democrats were concerned about changing consumer protection "guardrails" currently in place.
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A well-functioning Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in conjunction with state authorities, can handle consumer protection and anticompetitive conduct issues.
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Based on the idea of "consumer protection," it accepts the principles that have helped make platforms like StubHub so lucrative.
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When all's said and done, insurance is a promise to pay a legitimate claim, which is the ultimate consumer protection.
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" The counties also claim the companies violated the Colorado Consumer Protection Act, claiming the companies engaged in "deceptive trade practices.
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Second, new CFPB leadership likely will use more well-established consumer protection theories like deception and unfairness instead of abusiveness.
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Given her lack of experience in consumer protection, it is not possible to predict whether Kraninger will meet this bar.
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Mulvaney has completely silenced the voice of consumer advocates at an agency that is supposed to be about consumer protection.
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"Scams are more sophisticated today compared to five years ago," said Michael Bruemmer, vice president of consumer protection at Experian.
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President Trump has vowed "to do a big number" on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection will hold a hearing on drug impaired driving.
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Meanwhile, the committee's panel on digital commerce and consumer protection will examine the Internet of Things at 10:30 a.m.
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Mozilla wants to codify the VEP to include more input from consumer protection agencies, with more independence from the NSA.
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A top consumer protection regulator will consider this fall the ways companies disclose information, including their privacy policies, to customers.
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David A. Balto is an antitrust attorney based in Washington D.C. specializing in consumer protection, intellectual property, and health care.
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President Trump on Monday declared this week National Consumer Protection Week, underscoring the need to increase awareness about cyber crime.
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With respect to consumer protection, the discussion in the FTC discussion paper on consumer information and related issues is incorrect.
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The FTC is considering making Andrew Smith, a partner at Covington and Burling, LLP, head of its consumer protection bureau.
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But in reality, the bill weakened consumer protection rules that were placed on some of the largest banks in America.
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On consumer protection, the 1970s FTC is essentially what Congress revived in 2010 as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — Sen.
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Congress established the consumer-protection watchdog with a single director who could only be removed by the president for cause.
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Licensed industries scream loudest about "consumer protection" when reforms threaten their unfair advantage, which often spooks politicians away from reform.
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The 2,300-plus page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act made sweeping changes to the financial landscape.
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They'd also have to meet consumer protection requirements and pass an analysis of its business plan and likelihood of success.
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Only Ms. Alaburda has been successful in getting her case to a trial, thanks to California's strong consumer protection laws.
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The New York probe hinges on the state's Martin Act, an anti-fraud law, as well as consumer protection statutes.
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States value the role of employers to judge the quality of providers and serve as a check on consumer protection.
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The Hamburg Consumer Protection Center noted the chocolate hazelnut spread now has more sugar and milk powder but less cocoa.
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The Congress, in thrall to corporate lobbies, is complicit in letting the President unilaterally dismantle environmental and consumer-protection regulations.
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Chiefly, however, the law will set a new global precedent around the importance of personal information ownership and consumer protection.
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And one fast fashion retail startup is teaching its tailors and seamstresses how to make cloth masks for consumer protection.
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One new consumer protection initiative may have been inadvertently saved by the backlash over Equifax's response to its data breach.
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Before the crisis, consumer protection was fragmented across 10 regulators, and because it was everyone's job, it was nobody's job.
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Consumers have intelligently shied away from Bitcoin 1.0 because of the complete lack of consumer protection built into Bitcoin 1.0.
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A top consumer protection regulator will consider this fall the ways companies disclose information, including their privacy policies, to customers.
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American Airlines (AAL), Delta (DAL) and Frontier Airlines were fined by the Transportation Department for violating various consumer protection rules.
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The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law by President Obama seven years ago today.
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Second, the FTC uses its consumer protection authority to ensure that consumers get the benefit of the bargain they strike.
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Supporters of the rule describe it as a basic consumer protection to prevent brokers from taking advantage of vulnerable clients.
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You can notify your state or local consumer protection agency, which can usually be found through your state attorney general.
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If confirmed, the four will be in charge of overseeing mergers and policing companies for violations of consumer protection laws.
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One huge change coming in 2020 is a new data privacy law called the California Consumer Protection Act, or CCPA.
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However, as internet adoption proliferated, a number of negative uses cases emerged, sparking consumer protection concerns amongst regulators and governments.
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It does not remove any existing consumer protections or the private right of action, which are essential to consumer protection.
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On its face, Senate Bill 2900 — dubbed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act — contains some sensible reforms.
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Lawyers for the former students hope to stop the debt-collection process, since the company violated state consumer protection laws.
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The law overhauled or enhanced virtually every aspect of America's financial protection rules: banking, securities, commodities, derivatives and consumer protection.
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The commission on Monday denied SolarCity's request, saying its customers were adequately represented by the state's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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American Association of Political Consultants, a case that could potentially lead to the invalidation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Congress has been trying to control the problem at least since 1991, when it passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Japan last year became the first country to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges, as it encourages technological innovation while ensuring consumer protection.
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The battle to end roaming fees has always been about European political goals and market unification as well as consumer protection.
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But the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has found student loan servicers are delaying or denying borrowers access to the consumer protection.
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Britain faces the challenge of balancing an innovative economy with maintaining consumer protection, stable markets and thwarting financial crime, she said.
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On Tuesday, the commissioners from the FTC sat before the Senate Commerce Consumer Protection Subcommittee to discuss the agency's current priorities.
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He said he was especially looking for more answers on Gorsuch's thoughts about reproductive rights, workers' rights and consumer protection issues.
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"Market volatility is very unnerving, especially for people who are relying upon their returns," consumer protection expert Bill Francavilla told CNBC.
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The reports spurred Russia's consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, into action, saying on Tuesday they would launch an investigation into the toy.
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Spam calls have been a popular bipartisan cause for decades now, and Congress passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act in 1991.
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" And the 24 state attorneys general called it "an abandonment of important principles of consumer protection in exchange for illusory benefits.
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Clyburn argued that the disclosures were an important consumer protection that was far from overbearing on businesses, particularly ones this large.
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It is the ultimate consumer protection dilemma -- we all want to be secure, but we also want everything to be easy.
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The consumer protection agency alleged that Uber publicized misleading statements about the amount of money drivers could earn in 20 cities.
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In some cases, the complainants were pointed in the direction of the Federal Trade Commission, or a state consumer-protection agency.
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With the joint powers of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Consumer Protection and Data Security Subcommittee, answers will be had.
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The rules will also require virtual currency exchanges to execute a "deed of undertaking" to implement minimum standards of consumer protection.
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Lenders have already tightened up here, too, but consumer-protection groups fear they may ease up once the pressure is off.
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And the U.S. insurance industry is facing increasing pressure to adopt international regulatory standards that encourage consumer protection and price transparency.
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"Libra raises serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, consumer protection, financial stability," Powell said in front of a Congressional committee Wednesday.
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Rights for individuals over their data may be a matter of consumer protection, which falls under the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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"We are aware that tenant harassment continues to be a problem," said Adam Radinsky, chief of Santa Monica's Consumer Protection Division.
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These laws go much further than conventional consumer protection or trade mark laws, which are designed primarily to prevent consumer confusion.
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But she said there were also important questions about consumer protection, data privacy, the impact on monetary policy and other issues.
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" Franken called that "shorthand for gutting any environmental or consumer protection measure that gets in the way of corporate profit margins.
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Bankruptcy automatically stayed hundreds of lawsuits against TK Holdings for wrongful death, injuries, economic loss and breach of consumer protection laws.
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Last year, a jury cleared California-based Hyland's and parent company Standard Homeopathic Company of consumer-protection claims seeking monetary damages.
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Soltani previously worked on consumer protection issues as chief technologist with the FTC before taking the job with the White House.
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The consumer protection lawsuit targeted the $66 Jade Egg and the $55 Rose Quartz Egg, which are still available for sale.
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"The way is being cleared for a race to the bottom in environmental, consumer protection and public health standards," Greenpeace said.
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There will be many novel and difficult consumer protection issues on which Trump appointees will have differing views than Obama appointees.
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Thanks to President Reagan it will take substantial effort and hard evidence to overturn existing safety, environmental and consumer protection rules.
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"Now, if the President finds consumer protection enforcement to be lacking or unlawful, he knows exactly where to turn," she reasoned.
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His forthcoming book, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy, is a 100-year history of the FTC's consumer protection efforts.
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The United States has a long history of consumer protection and product safety, led by government, nonprofit organizations, businesses and individuals.
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"This is about consumer protection, it's about having access to information to make wise decisions on a huge investment," he said.
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The Missouri attorney general's office is investigating whether Google has run afoul of consumer protection or antitrust laws in the state.
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Mandatory arbitration clauses are already prohibited in mortgage contracts, under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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The bill renames the CFPB the Consumer Law Enforcement Agency and reduces its power to enforce pre-existing consumer protection laws.
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Biden got his hands dirty as a young Senator — working on consumer protection, international arms control, and crime in the 1970s.
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Tuesday's hearing before a Senate Commerce Committee subcommittee on consumer protection will examine that incident and bug bounty programs in general.
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Vector and Russia's consumer protection watchdog also said that no biologically hazardous substances were present at the time of the blast.
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Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear (D) sued three major insulin manufacturers Monday, accusing them of violating the state's consumer protection law.
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A case pending before a government panel serves as an excellent example of how to uphold both IP and consumer protection.
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Ellison urged consumer protection agency to re-examine the company in light of its massive growth since the Obama-era investigation.
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It is not so much a retreat from consumer protection as an advancement of corporate priorities in a jobs-first economy.
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The digital commerce and consumer protection subcommittee will hold a hearing next week to consider 85033 draft bills on autonomous vehicles.
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On larger questions involving government power, a new Justice Kavanaugh could mean further reining in of environmental regulations and consumer protection.
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This supposed consumer protection has driven every insurer from the market, leaving sick patients with no assistance with their medical bills.
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She will be working on "issues related to online safety, InfoSec, financial services, consumer protection and data security," disclosure forms say.
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The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday to examine the impact of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
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In fact, small banks received the bulk of regulatory relief from this new Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act.
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While it's too early to determine fintech firms' impact on financial stability, potential regulations could help ensure consumer protection, Lee added.
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"These markets may raise important investor and consumer protection issues, and some appear especially vulnerable to money-laundering ... concerns," she said.
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"One is the cost of regulation, another the investments required... in new technologies and thirdly because of consumer protection," he said.
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He's also moved to appoint a lawyer who represented Facebook and Equifax to the top of the agency's consumer protection division.
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Donald Trump has designated Maureen Ohlhausen, the only Republican left on the Federal Trade Commission, to lead the consumer protection agency.
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One of the U.S. government's most powerful consumer protection watchdogs appears to be quietly probing Uber and the company's privacy practices.
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Consumer protection authorities must adopt an approach that refrains from snatching those benefits from consumers' hands before they can be realized.
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It enacted major reforms in mortgage lending and created other consumer protections, including the much-reviled Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB).
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Borrowers may not always receive the best information from a student loan servicer about their repayment options, consumer protection advocates say.
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Budd represents North Carolina's 13th District and is a member of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions.
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His team manages PayPal's contributions to discussions on consumer protection, cross-border trade expansion, intellectual property protections, cybersecurity and data protection.
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Their initial focus is on consumer protection, not privacy, but in the last couple of years they've been wearing two hats.
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And in November, the state of Missouri opened an investigation into whether Google violated the state's antitrust and consumer protection laws.
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Under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, automated calls or texts to a cellphone generally require a consumer's consent, Ms. Saunders said.
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However, the report added that there weren't yet any complaints registered with the Consumers Association of Singapore, a consumer protection group.
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The government has been trying to broker a deal between homebuilders and consumer protection groups on new rules for the sector.
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Then, using China's consumer protection laws, he collects tens of thousands of dollars from the companies that make or sell them.
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House Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection subcommittee will hold a hearing on delivering to consumers at 10:15 a.m. tomorrow. Rep.
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Now, someone is finally calling BS. A German court has ruled that the Dash buttons violate consumer protection laws, Reuters reports.
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Therefore it breaks the consumer protection law that states that consumers have to be fully informed about the product they're purchasing.
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BOLSTERING CONSUMER FINANCE PROTECTIONS On Tuesday, Bloomberg outlined a number of consumer protection proposals, hitting on one of Warren's sweet spots.
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At the same time, other regulators are working on their own consumer protection rules, hinting at a turf war among agencies.
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Mikhail Mamuta, who heads the bank's consumer protection division, said the test was likely to contain between five and 10 questions.
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Věra Jourová, the EU's consumer protection chief, thinks the Cambridge Analytica incident underscores why privacy regulations like the GDPR are crucial.
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Navient called Hunter nearly 2,000 times, according to his lawyer Billy Peerce Howard, from The Consumer Protection Firm in Tampa, Florida.
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President Trump has made it clear that he wished to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Instead, it creates flavored water-vapor and can become the focus of consumer-protection oversight just as may other consumable products.
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Many of these regulations were implementing the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Then came the passage of the Dodd-Frank act in 2010 and, with it, the creation of the consumer protection bureau.
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The state and the couple sued Stutzman in 2013, accusing her of violating the state anti-discrimination and consumer protection laws.
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The F.C.C. said the F.T.C.'s broad antitrust and consumer protection laws were best suited to stop any harmful business practices.
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The same can also be said about the Consumer Protection Act and other reforms that were passed in response to the crisis.
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That's a business model that should give any consumer protection regulator pause, and yet this settlement is a tacit endorsement of it.
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Citing a government consumer protection agency report, the AP said the prices were due to a drop in production of 1.2 percent.
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Faced with questions about why the administration would roll back a consumer protection, the Trump official said existing regulations already protect consumers.
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EPIC and the other consumer watchdogs claim the "toys subject young children to ongoing surveillance" and violate privacy and consumer protection laws.
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Gillibrand voted in support of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the wake of the financial crisis.
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In July, Facebook paid a $5 billion fine to consumer protection agency, the Federal Trade Commission, to settle a privacy violation claim.
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"We allege this company cheated tenants before, during and after their tenancy, violating the Consumer Protection Act thousands of times," Frosh tweeted.
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The Consumer Protection and Fair Trade Authority said in a statement it had questioned the head of Apple in Israel, Rony Friedman.
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But if you're talking about streamlining that strips out basic consumer protection and competition, then really the devil is in the details.
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Extending the commission's mandate is necessary because "part of consumer protection is protecting the economic choices and vibrant competitive markets," Hensarling said.
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"The question of what happens with the data of 30 million German users is a central issue of consumer protection," she said.
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Japan last year became the first country to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges, as it tries to encourage technological innovation while ensuring consumer protection.
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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, meanwhile, opened an investigation in November 2017 into whether Google's data collection practices violate consumer protection laws.
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Below: Read the full policy proposal, which outlines specific trade goals regarding labor, antitrust, climate change, prescription drugs, agriculture, and consumer protection.
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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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Previous lawsuits related to SMS marketing citing the TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act), which specifies consent requirements for marketing, have been dismissed.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Kennedy was involved in a number of movements, including black power, consumer protection, and sex workers' rights.
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"From a fraud standpoint, I'm very worried about this," said Susan Grant, director of consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America.
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The bill renames the CFPB the Consumer Law Enforcement Agency and reduces its power to only enforcing pre-existing consumer protection laws.
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The Senate Commerce Committee is tasked with consumer protection, and its interest in Facebook's news project is likely tied to that concern.
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"People rely on reviews when they're shopping online," Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement.
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Mike Crapo's 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, for example, is heralded as a green light for merger hopefuls.
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And the Maryland Senate recently approved legislation instructing its consumer protection agency to determine whether the state should enact a fiduciary law.
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"People rely on reviews when they're shopping online," said director of the commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection Andrew Smith in a statement.
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Another bill, the Financial Institution Consumer Protection Act, would limit federal agencies' ability to order depository institutions to terminate specific customer accounts.
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She discussed the Wells Fargo fake account scandal and consumer protection during the interview, contending Trump would set back progress on regulation.
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HAMBURG (Reuters) - Germany's food industry must label unhealthy products more clearly, the country's new agriculture and consumer protection minister said on Thursday.
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The company has said it paid the hackers $215,22016 to delete the data and keep the breach quiet — raising consumer protection concerns.
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Two Democratic lawmakers are calling on the nation's top consumer protection agency to ramp up its oversight of nonbank mortgage servicers. Sen.
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He then became an uncompromising crusader for consumer protection, and was often vilified as an alarmist and an enemy of American business.
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Consumer protection is important but we've got to get rid of a lot of rules that are hindering their economy and growth.
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Reagan certified classes of consumers for claims of fraudulent concealment, unjust enrichment and violation of various state and federal consumer protection laws.
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The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 provides allergen labeling for eight allergens, but does not currently include sesame.
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Asset managers find it costly to research all the different marketing and consumer protection rules in each EU country, the document said.
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In 2003, a meeting was held in Hartford among lawmakers, homeowners and representatives of the attorney general's office and Consumer Protection Department.
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The committee plans to revisit Wells Fargo's treatment of customers and its compliance with consumer protection laws after the election, she said.
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Hunter responded with a class action counterclaim on behalf of King of Kash borrowers, alleging a violation of Missouri's consumer protection law.
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Critics of Wall Street continue to voice loud concerns about the recently passed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act.
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As Congress and regulators pay more attention to this technological transformation they are looking to ensure adequate consumer protection and economic safety.
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Two former FTC Commissioners told Axios in March that they expect data privacy and security to be their top consumer protection priority.
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"It is necessary to strike the right balance between a high level of consumer protection and the competitiveness of enterprises," it said.
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Though the company does need to be careful about consumer protection rules as it seeks to excise friction from the buying process.
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Former FTC consumer protection enforcers say Facebook's response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal won't be enough to keep federal investigators at bay.
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"We believe the Draft Restatement represents an abandonment of important principles of consumer protection in exchange for illusory benefits," the AGs argued.
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Net neutrality lost its consumer-protection purpose when it became the FCC's rationale for reclassifying broadband as a Title II telephone utility.
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D.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), chairman of the panel's consumer protection and data security subcommittee.
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According to the court there, having a button without real-time updated price information about what you're ordering violates consumer protection laws.
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Hawley, currently the youngest U.S. senator, worked on holding tech companies accountable for antitrust and consumer protection violations as Missouri's attorney general.
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Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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But Republican Commissioner Noah Phillips said the FTC's antitrust and consumer protection authorities are "not authorities to police the First Amendment itself."
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And just this week, he endorsed a letter calling on the administration to roll back certain consumer protection requirements governing some banks.
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California legislators are considering something along these lines as well, but are also weighing regulating broadband providers directly via consumer protection laws.
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That means aggressively pursuing potential cases of fraud that violate consumer protection laws, but also doggedly protecting the right to free speech.
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Instead, it alleges deceptive and unfair business practices under Illinois' consumer protection law, as well as violations of common-law privacy rights.
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Imbued with the powers of competitive oversight and consumer protection, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was a beacon for other governmental agencies.
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Six years ago, on July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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"Part of the jurisdiction of our committee is consumer protection, so we think it's a perfectly legitimate line of inquiry," he said.
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It would also broaden exemptions from the mortgage affordability requirements created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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As the first director of a new agency solely dedicated to consumer protection, his leadership demonstrates what keeping banks accountable looks like.
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Republicans will have a chance to make major changes to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection act in 28503.
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And nowhere is that shabby dynamic—crony capitalism dressed up as consumer protection—more pronounced than in the field of occupational licensing.
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"Our boys and girls are sacred, we will not let them be robbed of Christmas," the consumer protection agency said on Twitter.
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The FTC's opening panel this week featured a handful of competition and consumer protection lawyers who leaned toward maintaining the status quo.
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Two top Senate Republicans are asking a consumer protection agency why an online retirement planning tool offers incorrect guidance to users. Sens.
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Today starts National Consumer Protection Week, which wants to help you understand your consumer rights and make better decisions about your money.
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The California legislature could pass the proposed California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018 (SB 822) any day now.
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Federal and state regulatory and consumer protection agencies should consider how they can better protect consumers from bad actors in the industry.
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They have pushed for lower interest rates and easier money, or for this or that policy on bank regulation or consumer protection.
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So I think there's plenty of issues that we can connect on, whether it's minimum wage, the environment, consumer protection, civil rights.
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The regulatory framework for texting comes from legislation passed in 1991, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which did not anticipate smartphone technology.
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That's in part due to the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), a 2005 amendment to the US Bankruptcy Code.
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The rollout is part of a consumer protection initiative between Yelp and ProPublica aiming to bring better medical information to the search site.
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Andrew Smith, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said Americans are "fed up" with the billions of robocalls received every year.
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This would be a major reversal for US policy that has historically been set up to facilitate data collection rather than consumer protection.
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"We've had to make hard decisions in the last month to preserve key functions to maintain our critical consumer protection role," Gottlieb said.
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His fellow Republican Senator Pat Toomey, chair of the subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer protection, said he is considering a similar step.
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The new disclosures — largely opposed by corporate America — are part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 21982.
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The consumer protection agency has increasingly cracked down on apps making vague, health-related claims without having the science to back them up.
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The Department of Consumer Protection has sought to calm fears of a crisis by saying supermarkets will be able to restock their shelves.
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He said policy intervention by other authorities such as in competition, conduct and consumer protection, would need come before any financial stability considerations.
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It breaks down the areas that need addressing into the promotion of disinformation, privacy and consumer protection, and ensuring competition in the marketplace.
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Many of the consumer protection concerns stemmed from a New York attorney general's report on virtual exchanges' risk of manipulation, the lawmakers said.
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The department cited the CFPB's history of aggressive enforcement of consumer protection laws, accusing the agency of being an overzealous and overreaching partner.
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A number of consumer protection sites are down, and device approvals and other enforcement efforts have been suspended until the government re-opens.
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Barks McWoofins became a retired fake spokesperson that came back into service for National Consumer Protection Week but was really cantankerous about it.
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And in terms of consumer protection, the bill will mandate that platforms must identify highly experienced players and prohibit the participation of minors.
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Later this week, state attorneys general will meet with FTC officials in Omaha, Nebraska, to talk about consumer protection issues and competition matters.
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And this is a working group that includes all the regulators: the Fed, the OCC, the Consumer Protection Bureau, The S.E.C., the CFTC.
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A lawyer who defended AMG in the early stages of that case, Andrew Smith, is now director of the FTC consumer protection bureau.
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Meanwhile, "the California net neutrality law simply fills a gap in consumer protection that the FCC has willingly and happily created," she added.
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Developed markets have seen a 492 percent increase in regulatory changes between 2008 and 2015, especially in anti-money laundering and consumer protection.
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Being pro-strong-encryption is an ideologically pure stance that is backed by technological and pragmatic considerations, as well as consumer protection interests.
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He also disputed CSBS' claim that state consumer protection laws may cease to apply to fintech firms that secured the federal OCC license.
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Insurance regulators primarily perform a consumer protection function, seeking to prevent companies from improperly denying claims, rather than a broad financial stability function.
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Banks were required to establish living wills by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which became law in 2010.
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Recently, the president nominated a CFPB director: Kathy Kraninger, an ally of the current acting director who has no previous consumer protection experience.
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Ben Edwards is an associate professor of law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and specializes in business law and consumer protection.
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The lawsuit was filed in Boston's Suffolk County Superior Court and alleges that Equifax violated several state consumer protection and data security laws.
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"Part of the jurisdiction of our committee is consumer protection, so we think it's a perfectly legitimate line of inquiry," Thune said Tuesday.
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ON TAP: The House Commerce panel on digital commerce and consumer protection holds a hearing on self-driving cars at 10:85033 a.m.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Protection Board is scheduled to hold a public meeting Thursday, featuring remarks from CFPB Director Richard Cordray.
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In the 1970s, at the height of a nationwide focus on consumer protection, New York's attorney general, Louis Lefkowitz, went after von Braunhut.
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Other financial agencies had pieces of the consumer protection puzzle, but no agency had been explicitly focused on protecting consumers from Wall Street.
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Thanks to the efforts of tireless advocates, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act helped piece the economy back together.
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They did not engage in the abuses that led to the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Anyone who knows anything about this issue knows that student loans have been uniquely stripped of nearly every standard consumer protection there is.
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A strong advocate of consumer protection, she conceived and fought for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.
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The better-known FDIC is a federal agency that, among other things, manages bank receiverships and examines banks for safety and consumer protection.
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But last year, the agency reported that a range of student loan industry practices "delay, defer or deny access" to that consumer protection.
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Yet the central bank considered consumer protection a backwater and didn't use that power until 2008 – too late to prevent the Great Recession.
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The measure would include colleges and student-athletes in the state's consumer protection laws and allow students to get paid directly by universities.
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Bureau Director Richard Cordray portrays the rule as a consumer protection measure, but the only beneficiaries will be his wealthy trial lawyer friends.
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"It's why the fight for CFPB is so critical," said Chi Chi Wu, referring to Republican efforts to gut the consumer protection agency.
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"I think there are consumer protection issues, but there are also first amendment protections and the two need to be balanced," said Sen.
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The lawsuit argues that the federal regulator does not have the authority to grant special charters and could lead to weaker consumer protection.
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But there is nothing "easy" about this arrangement, as the consumer protection bureau showed in a study of more than 12 million loans.
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"I think it's a penalty that sends a strong message to the marketplace," said Smith, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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Further complicating things, it is often unclear whether consumer protection laws apply, and insurance departments say they lack the resources to investigate complaints.
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The six proposals discussed at the hearing, all introduced by Republicans, would amend, and often scale back, a variety of consumer protection laws.
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While there are still loopholes through which flood vehicles reach unsuspecting buyers, legislation enacted after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy has improved consumer protection.
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Lawyers who handle cases under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act can be found on the website of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
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The lawsuit will claim the company didn't maintain the appropriate safeguards to protect the data, violating state consumer protection and data privacy laws.
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Regulators avoid stifling new technologies, said Richard Lawson, partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and former consumer protection director in Florida's attorney general's office.
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The Senate Commerce Committee holds a hearing on the Federal Trade Commission and how it handles consumer protection cases at 28503:22019 p.m.
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American Airlines, Delta Air Lines – American, Delta, and Frontier Airlines were fined by the Department of Transportation for violating various consumer protection rules.
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The regulation has been hailed by consumer advocates and liberals such as Senator Elizabeth Warren as a critical consumer protection against corporate wrongdoing.
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The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or Dodd-Frank, banned risky loan products and now requires way more documentation.
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Christine Bannan, consumer protection counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, advises people to treat Facebook's privacy promises and Portal devices with circumspection.
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Foreign data protection, privacy, consumer protection, content regulation, and other laws and regulations are often more restrictive than those in the United States.
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Perhaps with the new year, the FTC can refocus and become the shining beacon of consumer protection that I know it can be.
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That might be expected talk for those Democrats, many of whom have long pushed for stronger consumer protection laws in the United States.
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But last year, the agency reported that a range of student loan industry practices "delay, defer or deny access" to that consumer protection.
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"Equifax deserves to be shamed in this hearing," said Illinois' Jan Schakowsky, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce consumer protection subpanel.
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Zuckerberg has faced the privacy of the data question, as well as the consumer protection question for as long as Facebook has existed.
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Some aspects of the resulting Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act were widely applauded; others were controversial from the start.
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"What companies say about privacy matters to consumers," Andrew Smith, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a press release.
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"They still have legal rights under the consumer protection laws in the event the insurer engages in any bad faith conduct," she said.
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More so, AI will transform our economy as a whole, which has state attorneys general considering how their consumer protection roles must change.
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But, in any event, backward-looking consumer protection can never provide the same guarantee to consumers and start-ups as forward-looking rules.
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A business group said the proposal failed to address the reasons companies use geoblocking, such as differing VAT rates and consumer protection rules.
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Banking regulators would have to judge each large bank's compliance with consumer protection laws with parameters developed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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The administration essentially threw in the towel in the challenge to the consumer protection agency started by senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren.
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His administration is current dismantling a consumer protection bureau that helped level the playing field between corporations and the poor and middle class.
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States have repeatedly enacted consumer protection statutes and promulgated regulations on air ambulances, only to be thwarted by industry arguments of federal preemption.
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In 2006, Congress passed the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act, which requires food labels to list ingredients that are considered allergens.
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Former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an inquiry in April, looking for digital currency exchanges to answer questions about transparency and consumer protection.
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Most states have consumer protection offices whose job it is to help with these problems; some states have several local offices as well.
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Consumer protection isn't the sexiest of issues, but it's one that affects literally everyone's life — from credit cards to mortgages to student loans.
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But those duties do not include using our legal power to punish those with whom we disagree under the guise of consumer protection.
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It has been charged with studying how cryptocurrencies like Libra are governed by regulations ranging from money laundering laws to consumer-protection rules.
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He was no great supporter of the industry that made him rich, campaigning fiercely for better consumer protection against predatory, commission-led sales tactics.
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Monday, that forecast came true, when Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley said he is investigating whether Google violated Missouri's consumer-protection and antitrust laws.
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The consumer protection agency has asked the Venezuelan attorney general's office to prohibit Kreisel executives from leaving the country as they conduct their investigation.
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Kentucky sued Volkswagen AG and its luxury units on Tuesday claiming the German automaker's diesel emissions cheating scheme violated the state's Consumer Protection Act.
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BEUC said it had found similar violations of data and consumer protection laws in other toys and devices that are connected to the internet.
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But at the same time, the FCC all but clears the field with sweeping preemption of anything that resembles state or local consumer protection.
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Lotz explained that starting in California was very purposeful, as regulatory approval is relatively difficult to secure in such a consumer protection-heavy state.
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The occasion was a hearing of the House Energy and Committee Commerce and its subcommittees on communications and technology and consumer protection and commerce.
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"It's very anti-consumer, it's a way of cheating over consumers," Paul Bland, executive director of Public Justice, a consumer protection advocate, told CNBC.
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Buttigieg didn't touch on Justice Department nominations or new legislation like Warren, but he pointed to the FTC, the leading US consumer protection agency.
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Now, the electric skateboard maker is taking more drastic measures, working with consumer protection agencies in the US and Canada to issue a recall.
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The Commission and European consumer protection authorities will "take action to make sure social media companies comply with EU consumer rules," the official said.
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The UK's consumer protection group, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, recently purchased 400 counterfeit chargers online as part of an investigation into their safety.
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Back in November, a consumer protection group in China asked Apple to investigate problems with random shutdowns affecting the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss consumer protection organization SKS has filed a claim on behalf of some 6,000 car owners seeking damages from Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.
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Waters highlighted consumer protection, data and privacy issues and "ways that Facebook has conducted itself in the past" as reasons for a congressional hearing.
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In congressional testimony last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Libra raises "serious concerns" around privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and financial stability.
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He will likely be asked about privacy, money laundering, consumer protection and the stability of the financial system, all issues lawmakers say Libra raises.
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He is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee where he serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection.
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Anozie claims that the messages were in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and says Papa John's should pay $500 for each one.
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This probably means all of the ACA's consumer protection regulations would spring back into place, making health insurance more comprehensive and thus more expensive.
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Those policies could still be deemed anticompetitive or in violation of consumer protection laws by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
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Wayne's claim was made under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, which is a consumer protection law (businesses can be considered consumers).
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She previously served as special assistant to the president at the White House National Economic Council, where she handled retirement and consumer protection issues.
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The watchdog could recommend that the bloc's executive European Commission proposes changes to EU laws that underpin UCITS and consumer protection in financial services.
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Bitcoin seemed to meet the commonsense definition of a money-transmitting service, and arguably should have complied with consumer protection and money laundering laws.
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The movement is built on the coalition of a broad range of organisations working on issues from poverty to consumer protection and climate change.
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GM spokesman David Caldwell said the Detroit automaker had reached a settlement with states over the more than 3-year-old consumer protection investigations.
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Much of what consumer protection agencies do is challenge conduct that their leaders, regardless of their ideology or partisan affiliation, recognize must be challenged.
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The agency is expected to issue a report touching on the consumer protection and competition questions raised by the rise of on-demand services.
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"Lord & Taylor needs to be straight with consumers in its online marketing campaigns," said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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The reporting requirements were strengthened in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was passed after the 28503 financial crisis.
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Republicans and financial sector advocates have blasted the CFPB for its aggressive penalties on banks and lenders alleged to have violated consumer protection laws.
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President Trump will begin chipping away at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in Friday's edition of the Federal Register.
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The agency has long been a target of Republican lawmakers, who claim it pushed strangling financial sector regulations under the guise of consumer protection.
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"The FCC should be working to advance the goals of public safety, consumer protection, affordable access, and connectivity across the United States," they continued.
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They questioned whether it could easily be used for money laundering, if it's covered by consumer protection laws and how it could be manipulated.
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The consumer protection agency granted Continental Grain approval to increase its position, a filing that signals the company will actively engage with Bunge management.
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Example number one is the pending bipartisan Senate proposal to amend the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, also known as Dodd Frank.
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The plaintiffs in the case allege that those messages violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which forbids robocalling and other uses of an autodialer.
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But Smith had the backing of FTC Chairman Joseph Simons, who called him "one of our country's best and most experienced consumer protection lawyers."
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"I can't think of an example where an audit actually uncovered anything," said Brookman, who now directs privacy and consumer protection at Consumers Union.
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Fair lending advocacy groups have played a critical role in addressing consumer protection issues which were at the heart of the recent financial crisis.
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After years of conscious neglect, it now appears there is a growing bipartisan interest in empowering the FTC to achieve its consumer protection mandate.
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The lawsuit alleges violations of racketeering and consumer protection laws, and seeks remedies including possible refunds, restitution for lost resale value, and punitive damages.
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The deal partially settles claims from the Clean Air Act and consumer protection laws, through car buybacks, fixes, payments to consumers and environmental remediation.
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Simons was asked in a November hearing before a Senate Commerce subcommittee whether his agency had enough resources to fulfill its consumer protection mandate.
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Like other financial firms, these companies must abide by laws regulating money transmission, fair lending, disclosure and other anti-fraud and consumer protection guidelines.
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They passed countless bills to water down, dismantle or outright repeal enormous swaths of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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But we are seeing now that this regulatory overkill has inflicted unacceptable collateral damage — driving away needed investment and undermining consumer protection for starters.
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But it has produced important work on issues like corruption, civil liberties, consumer protection and responsible mining, among other things, its supporters point out.
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Thune dismissed the idea that it posed a consumer protection question because, he said, Facebook is working to make the trending feature more neutral.
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But the commission, one of the top consumer protection regulators in the country, has examined questions related to disclosures and ransomware, among other issues.
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Lobbyists at the firm will be dealing with everything from the opioid epidemic to copyright and communications policy, electronic health records and consumer protection.
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The implication may be that he took this position because he wants to give excessive power to a president or even opposes consumer protection.
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When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010, legislators specifically addressed the growing harm of forced arbitration.
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Several of the updates are the result of our work with the European Consumer Protection Network (CPC), but we'll be making the changes globally.
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Financial services companies have long complained about the CFPB's sweeping power to investigate and penalize firms that appear to have violated consumer protection laws.
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As part of the settlement, Wells agreed to pay $100 million to the consumer protection bureau, the largest fine ever levied by that agency.
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Mr. Pitofsky won support from consumer groups that had pushed for greater scrutiny of mergers and stronger consumer protection in matters like deceptive advertising.
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Several top law professors who are experts in class actions and consumer protection have also filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the appeal.
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Examples include the environment, national defense, national parks, consumer protection, and advanced research that helps seed inventions and create the industries of our future.
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The Federal Trade Commission typically strives to re-evaluate rules every 10 years, said Patti Poss, an attorney in the commission's consumer protection bureau.
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Another 2020 candidate, Senator Elizabeth Warren, had an admired career as a law professor before her consumer protection policy interests drew her into government.
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Consumer protection is freedom, because you're not free if you can't sue your credit card company even after they get caught ripping you off.
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His work focuses on privacy, intermediary deputization, telecommunications, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, consumer protection, competition, free speech and civil liberties.
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In a complaint filed Tuesday, Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan accuses Clearview AI of violating Vermont's Consumer Protection Act and its Data Broker Law.
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At the same time, the ability of AI and machine-learning to analyze data at very granular levels has regulators concerned about consumer protection.
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He never met with Mr. Frotman, and his deputies avoided even routine interactions with the student consumer protection team, according to two former officials.
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The actions of Mr. Mulvaney, who is also President Trump's budget director, have prompted states to more aggressively flex their own consumer protection authority.
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The Obama administration supported creating a consumer protection agency as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms but balked at having Warren run it.
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The Oklahoma lawsuit claims the companies violated Oklahoma's Medicaid False Claims Act as well as the Consumer Protection Act and created a public nuisance.
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That same day, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection will meet for a hearing on self-driving cars.
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In 2017, telecom lobbyists convinced the Trump FCC to not only kill net neutrality, but eliminate most of the FCC's telecom consumer protection authority.
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Wells has also agreed to contribute a total of $500,000 to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego and the Consumer Protection Trust Fund.
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Iowa's governor is poised to sign legislation that would allow insurers to sell cheaper plans that don't comply with certain ObamaCare consumer protection regulations.
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As such, he was instrumental in the creation of the Volcker rule, part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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Those accomplishments include legislation repealing and replacing the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, border security legislation and education reform.
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Returning to the pre-2015 status quo will send broadband back to the Federal Trade Commission, which handles all other Internet consumer protection issues.
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In 2010, the Durbin amendment was tacked on to the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the 85033th hour with little debate.
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Its say is crucial in a wide range of areas such as economic governance, immigration, energy, transport, climate change, the environment and consumer protection.
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When consumer protection is not a top priority — which has been true so far in the current administration — consumers still have a redress. 22019.
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"Consumers deserve better than that," said David Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown who led the F.T.C. Bureau of Consumer Protection in recent years.
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Japan in 2017 became the first country to regulate cryptocurrency exchanges at a national level, hoping to encourage technological innovation while ensuring consumer protection.
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NHTSA sent Tesla CEO Elon Musk a cease-and-desist letter and referred the matter to the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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Republicans maintained that government-sponsored retirement savings accounts free of federal consumer protection rules had an unfair advantage over plans from private-sector providers.
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Slaughter joins four other nominees -- three Republicans and one Democrat -- currently awaiting a full Senate vote to be confirmed to the consumer protection agency.
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What they're saying: Andrew Smith, director of the FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau, said AT&T failed to deliver on its promise of unlimited data.
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Slaughter joins four other nominees — three Republicans and one Democrat — currently awaiting a full Senate vote to be confirmed to the consumer protection agency.
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The lawsuit, which follows a yearlong investigation by the city, alleges it has identified more than 85033,200 consumer protection violations across 56 Metro stores.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the top Republican on that committee's consumer protection subcommittee, said mostly that the settlement's effectiveness remains to be seen.
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Violations of business competition rules, and laws on food and consumer protection, are among the charges facing IBU president director Trisnawan Widodo, Sitompul told reporters.
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But if blockchain takes off, applying existing anti-money laundering, securities trading and consumer protection rules may be all that's needed for now, regulators said.
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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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Also on Tuesday, Washington state's attorney general, Bob Ferguson, filed a similar consumer-protection lawsuit against J&J over its marketing of pelvic mesh devices.
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This week Washington state filed a $100 million lawsuit against Comcast, accusing the company of 1.8 million violations of the the state's Consumer Protection Act.
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The suit, filed in an Illinois federal court, accused Standard Innovation of violating the Federal Wiretap Act, along with other privacy and consumer protection statutes.
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According to the "Scams Team" at Britain's National Trading Standards, a consumer-protection body, the average age of victims of mass-marketing scams is 75.
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Amazon's terms also give it the ability to change the price of delivery and even substitute a different product, in violation of consumer protection laws.
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On its website, which is still accessible, the Federal Trade Commission, the government's consumer protection agency, points victims of identity theft to two websites: IdentityTheft.
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Demcratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter dissented from the agency's budget request, saying more money is needed for the FTC's antitrust and consumer protection work.
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But it is to recognize that nothing proposed today will result in a fundamental shift in privacy policy or provide a panacea of consumer protection.
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"The twin pillars of financial services regulation in the U.S. are safety and soundness and consumer protection," said Haskell Garfinkel, fintech co-lead with PwC.
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Investors are still trying to get their money back but because of the lack of regulation, there is very little consumer protection in the space.
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The $2.25 million settlement will cover the costs of the investigation and fund future consumer protection enforcement, including of the City's short-term rental law.
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"We advocated a few years ago that the rules around [TV distributor] competition and consumer protection should be extended ... to online video distributors," Lewis says.
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Last month the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it will, starting in September, hold hearings on "competition and consumer protection in the 21st century".
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Volkswagen says it's currently working with US courts to resolve civil claims for vehicle owners, dealerships, and states in which consumer protection laws were violated.
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Quarles addressed the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in a speech focusing on the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act.
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The draft bill, seen by CNBC and put forward by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, was adopted by the German government Wednesday.
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Republicans quietly gutted a major consumer protection Tuesday that allowed customers to band together for class-action lawsuits against big banks and credit card companies.
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Consumer Protection: Emergency Alerts, Privacy and AdvertisingThe proposal seeks to ensure that important consumer protections like emergency alerting, privacy, and children's advertising restrictions will apply.
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Her other recent priorities include online consumer protection and election security — allowing her to carve out a role in efforts to regulate social media companies.
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WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve board holds open meeting to discuss proposed rules implementing sections of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act - 1400 GMT.
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BERLIN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The German consumer protection organization vzbv on Wednesday said it would file a class action lawsuit against Volkswagen on Nov. 1.
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Seprately, Germany's consumer protection association and auto club ADAC will on Wednesday present a class action against Volkswagen over the carmaker's manipulation of emissions software.
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Platforms that represent themselves to the public as neutral would be subject to enforcement actions if they violate those representations through a consumer-protection framework.
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The suit claims violations of consumer protection laws of all U.S. states, as well as a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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In addition to federal regulation and oversight, digital health companies also must worry about state laws governing privacy, consumer protection and the healthcare industry generally.
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In North Carolina, more than 400 consumers had filed complaints to report potential gas price gouging to Cooper's Consumer Protection Division as of 11 a.m.
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A spokeswoman for Santander Consumer declined to comment on any possible settlement but said the lender has in recent months improved its consumer protection controls.
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A business in a similar situation might find itself in the crosshairs of Section 5 of the FTC Act and several states' consumer protection acts.
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A transatlantic gulf separates ideas about data privacy: EU law sees it as a cherished human right; in America, it is more about consumer protection.
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Concerns about consumer protection, coupled with years of sanctions, mean that Iran's approach to MBS differs in some important ways from the instruments issued elsewhere.
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PANEL TACKLES ROBOCALLS: The tech subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce committee will host a hearing on the Telephone Consumer Protection Act on Thursday.
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Consumer protection authorities across the 28-country bloc, which requested the changes last year, have the power to fine the companies for breaching EU rules.
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Only Congress and the courts have the power to save the republic from a regulatory coup that has been raised under cloak of consumer protection.
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He said the deception enabled Ben & Jerry's and its parent Unilever to charge premium prices, unjustly enriching themselves and violating a Vermont consumer protection law.
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The entire federal government is exempt from consumer protection laws that limit unwanted robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission decided in a ruling issued Tuesday night.
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Financing firms are left largely on their own to tailor their products, fees and disclosures to consumer-protection laws that are designed for traditional loans.
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Lyft's announcement also comes days after the House Commerce consumer protection subcommittee advanced legislation on self-driving cars that would ease restrictions in the space.
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The entire federal government is exempt from consumer protection laws that limit unwanted robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission decided in a ruling issued Tuesday night.
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Thursday, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce will look into an EPA rule proposal to roll back emissions standards for cars.
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"More than a year after the federal election, a lot remains more than fuzzy," said Tabea Roessner, party spokeswoman for network policy and consumer protection.
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California Assembly Bill 85033, recently endorsed by the state legislature's Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, would make this form of bogus parental consent illegal.
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Pai has declared July "Consumer Protection Month," and as part of that effort the agency will be considering a rule to crack down on robocalls.
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Consumer protection in peril Given Alice's ill health, the consequences for her might have been disastrous if she had been thrown out of her home.
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When a new technology enters the mainstream, policymakers are often eager to regulate it in an effort to ensure fair use, consumer protection and accountability.
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Schumer suggested the White House nominate his chief counsel Rebecca Slaughter to fill a Democratic opening at the consumer protection agency, according to the report.
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Lobbying disclosure reports signed on June 9 show that General Motors has hired The Williams Group to work on "Telephone Consumer Protection Act" (TCPA) issues.
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What we know so far: FTC Chairman Joseph Simons tapped an industry lawyer who's represented Facebook as the head of the agency's Consumer Protection Bureau.
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I am a former FTC official with 27 years of consumer protection experience, including 12 years overseeing the FTC's business opportunity enforcement and regulatory program.
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He testified at scores of congressional hearings on safety and warranty issues, consumer protection, air pollution and fuel economy, and he pushed for myriad recalls.
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Despite a career focused on consumer protection advocacy, Porter was hardly a shoe-in for the House Financial Services Committee once she got to Washington.
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Big Data currently comes under broader EU rules on data protection, competition and consumer protection, but there are no rules written specifically for the sector.
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ON TAP THURSDAY II: The House Energy and Commerce Committee's consumer protection subcommittee will hold a hearing on the impact of the outdoor recreation industry.
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"Strong encryption is critical for companies dealing with sensitive health information," said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a statement.
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"The certificate is a really important consumer protection, because it enables the consumer to verify or really prove that they did have coverage," said Corlette.
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"Our ability to affect a recall in a timely fashion is a core consumer protection function of the F.D.A.," Dr. Gottlieb said in an interview.
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Konsumer, Italy's consumer protection organization, has questioned whether Ryanair would be the best buyer for Alitalia, pointing to the cancellations as evidence of their concerns.
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A ruling by the Supreme Court in 2014, that large undisclosed commissions on PPI policies breached consumer-protection law, exposed the banks to further claims.
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The Council and the Commission are prepared to take all necessary measures to ensure appropriate standards of consumer protection and orderly monetary and financial conditions.
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Katie Porter of California, a consumer protection law professor who flipped a GOP-held seat in 2018 and was one of Warren's former law students.
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The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection will continue to examine cross-border data flows and their effect on disruptive technologies and other applications.
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Latta is chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, and Welch is a member of the E&C Committee.
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Republicans and a block of moderate Democrats advanced on Tuesday significant proposed changes to the 28500 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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" In a later statement, Pallone said, "Now, after years of debate and unprecedented public engagement, the Court has affirmed the FCC's strong consumer protection rules.
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For example, a report by Public Citizen found that some lenders have high interest rates and penalties, in violation of various state consumer protection laws.
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It could also call into question the agency's general conduct standard, as well as other consumer protection authority and its merger review process, Wheeler said.
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A particularly significant lawsuit comes from the Massachusetts attorney general, who argues that Exxon's misleading claims to its investors violated the state's Consumer Protection Act.
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The U.S. Justice Department said earlier this month that its consumer protection unit was looking into a norovirus outbreak at a Chipotle restaurant in California.
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"For them, data is the raw material that makes them money," said Gerd Billen, secretary of state in Germany's Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.
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During Chancellor Angela Merkel's last term, the 51-year-old Social Democrat served as the minister of justice and consumer protection, his first federal office.
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But Bullock argues that the IRS's proposed rules would make it harder for states to determine whether organizations are following tax and consumer-protection laws.
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But as much as Republicans deplore the consumer protection agency, they may find it difficult to kill a rule that could have wide populist appeal.
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts Before joining Congress, Warren rose to prominence for pushing to strengthen consumer protection after the 22008 global financial crisis.
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