AI-powered "nudify" apps are creating a new consumer protection crisis, one that revives an old American problem: the ...

Established in the wake of the Great Recession, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is a government agency intended to do exactly what its name states: protect consumers financially by ...

The CFPB’s role in enforcing consumer protections may diminish as the federal agency undergoes changes and possible elimination. Consumers can still report issues to the FTC, OCC and state attorneys ...

Last week I participated in the radio show On Point to discuss the legacy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It turned out to be something a debate with Richard Cordray, the first director ...

Worried about your financial-data privacy? The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is here to help. Unless you’re one of the quarter-million people whose sensitive info an agency employee emailed to ...

The billionaire Elon Musk and the California venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have started a debate about the role of government that we should be having — but it might not go the way they would ...

Rules on bank and credit card fees, medical debt and payment apps are in limbo. One thing you can do is carefully check your financial statements, one expert says. By Ann Carrns With the government ...

While consumer protection cases have been on an overall decline over most of the past decade, there was an increase in general consumer protection cases, class action cases, TCPA cases and data breach ...

An overhaul of the UK consumer law landscape is on the horizon, with the consumer law provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 set to take effect on 6 April 2025. The ...

Move is part of a suite of federal cost-cutting measures that aim to eliminate billions in annual government spending by the ...