NEW YORK -- A new law mandating more transparency in credit card surcharges takes effect Sunday in New York.
The settlement agreement covers the 85 class members who claim to have suffered from lower wages based on race and gender discrimination.
When the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) took over responsibilities for interpreting the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) from the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in 2011, the agency seemed to take a good amount of time figuring out the importance of this original privacy legislation dating all the way back to 1970.
Californians can now enforce a ballot measure that seeks to protect privacy rights by allowing consumers to stop businesses from using or selling information about their location, health, race, gender or other personal details, a state appeals court ruled Friday.
The FTC just issued its 2023 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book jam-packed with facts about the kind of scams consumers have reported to us. Has the reported dollar amount lost to fraud gone up or down this year? And what are the most frequently reported scams?
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