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Allison Zieve
Allison Zieve is the director of Public Citizen Litigation Group and Public Citizen's Supreme Court Assistance Project.
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Court affirms class certification in case about Facebook's facial-recognition technology
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed the district court’s order certifying a class Facebook users in a case challenging Facebook’s facial-recognition technology as a violation of Illinois’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).The court held that plaintiffs alleged... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Empirical analysis of the Supreme Court's class-action cases
Scotusblog this week posted an analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court's review of class action cases. Among its observations is that the Court overturns almost 70 percent of class action decisions made by appeals courts by either reversing or vacating... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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How collectors trick consumers into reviving old debts
The Washington Post reports today on debt collectors' tactics to revive debts that they cannot otherwise collect on because the statute of limitations has passed. If the consumer makes a payment, even against his or her own will, that can... Continue reading
Posted Aug 7, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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FTC update on claims in Equifax settlement
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced a $700 million settlement with Equifax concerning its liability for the 2017 data breach in which hackers stole the personal information of 147 million people. The settlement seemed to offer people as much... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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The conservative case for class actions
Professor Brian Fitzpatrick has a new book, set for release in October, called The Conservative case for Class Actions. Here is the summary: Since the 1960s, the class action lawsuit has been a powerful tool for holding businesses accountable. Yet... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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FTC imposes $5 billion penalty and new privacy restrictions on Facebook
The Federal Trade Commission announced this morning that it has reached a settlement with Facebook over the FTC's charges that the company violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Bill introduced to crack down on online hotel booking scams
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both chambers has reintroduced a bill to combat online hotel booking scams. The Stopping Online Booking Scams Act would make it illegal for scammers to fool customers into thinking they are paying for hotel... Continue reading
Posted Jul 24, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Settlement reported in state and federal investigations into Equifax data breach
"Equifax has agreed to pay as much as $700 million to settle a series of state and federal investigations into a massive 2017 data breach that left more than 147 million Americans’ Social Security numbers, credit-card details and other sensitive... Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Detroit Free Press reports that Ford knowingly sold defective cars
In a lengthy article today, the Detroit Free Press reports: Ford Motor Co. knowingly launched two low-priced, fuel-efficient cars with defective transmissions and continued selling the troubled Focus and Fiesta despite thousands of complaints and an avalanche of repairs, a... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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AT&T to block spam to cell phones
On Tuesday, AT&T became the first major US wireless company to automatically block robocalls for its customers. The free service comes after a June ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that allows phone service providers to offer call-blocking on an... Continue reading
Posted Jul 11, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Court finds consumer has standing to pursue FACTA violation
Under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA), retailers are prohibited from printing more than the last 5 digits of a credit card number or the expiration date on a purchase receipt. The law was enacted to... Continue reading
Posted Jul 2, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Dept of Education not processing applications for student-debt relief
On Tuesday, seven borrowers sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education after the agency failed to take action on their applications for relief from student loans. Under a 1995 law, the Department has authority to forgive the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 26, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Consumer group asks for investigation into "surveillance scoring"
A consumer-advocacy group as asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate a practice where retailers use consumer information collected by data brokers to decide how much to charge individual customers. According to the petition submitted to the FTC by #REPRESENT,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 25, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Court finds employees have standing to sue after data breach
On Friday, the DC Circuit held that two groups of federal workers can move forward with class action lawsuits against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over a 2015 data breach that exposed the personal information of 22 million people.The... Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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FTC investigates YouTube for violations of kids' privacy
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly launched an investigation into YouTube after complaints from consumer groups and privacy advocates alleging that YouTube violates kids' privacy. The complaints contend that YouTube failed to protect kids who used the streaming-video service and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 20, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Company to cancel and repay $40 million in payday loans that violated state rate caps
The Dallas Morning News reports that Think Finance Inc., a Fort Worth financial firm, will cancel its outstanding loans and pay nearly $40 million to consumers after engaging in an alleged payday lending operation that used Native American tribes as... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Senators ask CFPB to reconsider debt collection proposal
More than 20 U.S. senators are calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to reconsider a proposal to allow debt collectors to send unlimited texts and emails to consumers, and to call consumers seven times a week per debt, USA... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Opposition to CFPB's proposed rescission of protections for payday borrowers
Public Citizen, along with the Center for Responsible Lending and several other consumer-advocacy groups, submitted a lengthy comment objecting to the CFPB's proposal to rescind many aspects of the agency's own payday lending rule, issued in 2017 to protect consumers... Continue reading
Posted May 17, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Dept of Education blocking CFPB oversight of student loan servicing
In a letter responding to an inquiry from Senator Warren, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says that the Education Department is hampering the CFPB's efforts to protect borrowers by performing oversight of the student loan industry. The... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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States accuse generic drug manufactrurers of price fixing
On Friday, Connecticut and a coalition of 44 states sued the biggest generic drug manufacturers, accusing them of a systematic conspiracy to bilk consumers out of billions of dollars. Last night's 60 Minutes covered the story, here. The Connecticut Attorney... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Report on restoring individuals' access to the civil justice system
The Center for American Progress today released a report discussing structural reforms to the court system and suggesting reforms to restore access to the courts -- two topics that are discussed separately in the report but are surely related. The... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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CFPB proposes new rule on calls, texts, and emails from debt collectors
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing a new rule that would allow debt collectors to send consumers an unlimited number of texts and emails. The agency says that its rule would be good for consumers. The Washington Post reports,... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Ninth Circuit upholds constitutionality of CFPB
This morning, in a unanimous opinion in a case is called CFPB v. Seila Law, Inc., the Ninth Circuit decided a challenge to the CFPB's structure. The CFPB is headed by a single Director who exercises substantial executive power but... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Share your CFPB experience
ProPublica and WNYC are investigating whether the Consumer Financial Protection Agency is enforcing federal consumer financial laws and holding companies accountable. They want to hear from people who work at the agency and those who have left recently, particularly people... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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Consumer Reports article on barrier to information about defective products
Section 6(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act generally requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to get permission from a manufacturer before releasing to the public any information about a defective product that would reveal the identity of the manufacturer.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2019 at CL&P Blog
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