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Privacy Group’s FTC Complaint: Uber Shouldn’t Track Users When They’re Not...
A digital-privacy group has filed a complaint against Uber, saying the company’s new privacy policy says it could use a rider’s location information to track where they are even when the app is running...
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FDA To Hold Public Meeting, Seek Comments On Antibiotic Overuse In Farm Animals
For decades, livestock farmers inadvertently encouraged the development of drug-resistant bacteria by providing a continuous stream of medically unnecessary antibiotics to their cows, pigs, and...
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Sallie Mae Spinoff Navient Could Face CFPB Lawsuit Over Student Loans
In the short time since Navient – the nation’s largest student loan servicing company – spun off from Sallie Mae, the company has come under scrutiny for it allegedly unfair practices of overcharging...
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Credit Bureaus, Bank Of America, Wells Fargo Top List Of Most...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released its latest report on the various complaints the agency has received about banks, lenders, debt collectors, and other financial services. Amid a...
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Countless Consumers Are Paying Off Someone Else’s Debt Because Of Default...
Imagine receiving a phone call that 25% of your wages are going to be garnished because of a credit card account opened 14 years earlier that was never paid off. Making things worse, you know you...
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Court Sides With Consumer In Suit Against Retailer That Charges $250 When...
Last summer, a consumer in Wisconsin filed a lawsuit against online retailer Accessory Outlet over what she called a bogus $250 fine the company imposed, claiming she breached the terms of sale when...
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Volkswagen’s U.S. Chief To Be Grilled On Capitol Hill Tomorrow
Several weeks after Volkswagen admitted that millions of its so-called “clean diesel” vehicles were secretly set up to cheat on emissions tests, U.S. lawmakers are getting their first chance to...
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Report: Credit Card Reforms Saved Consumers $16B In Six Years
In 2009, lawmakers passed a massive set of reforms for the credit card industry – known as the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (CARD Act) — aimed at protecting consumers...
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7 Things We Learned About Federal Student Loans & The Companies That Profit...
Fifty years ago, Congress created the federal loan program as a way to help Americans realize their dreams of a better life through higher education. While millions of students have no doubt benefited...
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Debt Collectors Can Sue You, But Court Might Not Let You Sue Debt Collector Back
A new report claims that a growing number of debt collectors are trying to exploit a legal loophole that allows them to bring potentially frivolous lawsuits against alleged debtors, but bars those...
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Feds Arrest Heads Of Two Massive Online Payday Loan Operations
Back in June 2014, Consumerist showed readers what might have been the scammiest payday loan we’d ever seen. Today, federal authorities arrested the man behind the company, AMG Services — along with...
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Man Claims He Was Arrested For Unpaid Federal Student Loan Debt
More than a century ago, the U.S. did away with the idea of debtor’s prison, and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act explicitly forbids debt collectors from using the threat of jail time as a way to...
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Possible Squatter Lives In House With No Water, Holes In Roof, 4 Dogs
The man who lives in a nice brick house in the suburbs of Dallas says that he isn’t a squatter: he’s paying rent for the house. Who is he paying it to? That part is not so clear, and it’s not entirely...
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Student Loan Companies Could Face Enforcement Actions Over Automatic Defaults
In recent years, countless private student loan borrowers have found themselves placed in automatic default – even if they were up-to-date on payments – when their co-signer died or filed for...
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FCC To Consider Rules That Would Make ISPs Get Permission To Share Your...
There’s a reason they call this century the information age: everything is data, data, data. And today, the FCC announced a proposal that would regulate how ISPs — over which all that data flows — have...
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Starwood Hotels, Priceline Sign Hospitality Deals With Cuba
Now that travel is opening up from the U.S. to Cuba, hospitality companies are jumping at the chance to get in early: both Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Priceline have inked deals that will get...
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Failed For-Profit College Operator Ordered To Pay $1.1 Billion For Predatory...
Corinthian Colleges Inc. — which formerly ran for-profit education chains like Everest University, Heald College, and WyoTech — may have collapsed and had its remnants sold off, but the lawsuits...
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Split Supreme Court Allows Compulsory Public Union Fees To Stand
A high-profile Supreme Court case involving mandatory membership fees paid to public employee unions was expected to result in yet another controversial, narrow 5-4 decision by the nation’s highest...
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Telecom Market You Probably Never Heard Of Costs Consumers & Businesses An...
There are pretty good odds your neighborhood is subject to a monopoly on broadband. It stinks and needs to change, but we’re used to it. We think about it. It’s right there every month, when we get our...
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After Supreme Court Split, Challengers To Public Union Fees Want Case Re-Heard
In March, an evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-sentence non-decision in a controversial case involving compulsory fees for public unions. The challengers in that case have petitioned the...
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