Ring Tone Settlement May Signal New Policies
Florida PIRG Consumer Protection The Tampa Tribune Saturday, March 1, 2008 Russel Ray TALLAHASSEE - Accused of billing customers for ring tone services that were supposed to be free, AT&T...
View ArticleFlorida's Debt Traps
Florida PIRG Consumer Protection Daytona Beach News Journal Tuesday, March 11, 2008 State needs help to curb predatory lenders The fight to stomp out predatory lending has always been difficult -- the...
View ArticleBattle over amending Florida Constitution rages on
Florida PIRG Consumer Protection Daytona Beach News Journal Tuesday, April 8, 2008 James Miller TALLAHASSEE -- Anyone who thought the long, nasty fight over amending Florida's constitution had ended...
View ArticleWill aggressive registration bring young voters to polls?
Florida PIRG Consumer Protection Gainesville Sun Friday, January 27, 2012 Nathan Crabbe When she turned 18 in February, Keri Mongelluzzo wanted to partake in the privileges of adulthood. “I don’t...
View ArticleCredit Bureaus’ Deal to Improve Accuracy ‘Huge’ for Consumers
(Bloomberg) -- Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.[...] “It’s a sea change in...
View ArticleHow Companies Turn Your Facebook Activity Into a Credit Score
This story in The Nation explains our work challenging the way data brokers use "black box," or secret, algorithms to make scoring decisions that may violate the law and deny credit opportunities. This...
View Article12 of America's Biggest Highway Boondoggles
Given that expanding highways at great public cost doesn’t improve rush-hour traffic, there are better ways to spend this money, argue report authors Jeff Inglis of Frontier Group and John C. Olivieri...
View ArticleLATimes: Obama's consumer protection legacy defined by aggressive agency
[This weekend, the Los Angele Times chronicled President Obama's consumer protection record, with heavy emphasis on the history and fight over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):]"[...]...
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