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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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April 21, 2026
Capital One Clients Seek Cert. Over Info Sent To Meta, Google
Counsel for Capital One customers urged a California federal judge Tuesday to certify a class over claims their personal financial information was illegally disclosed to Meta Platforms Inc., Google LLC and others, saying the customers' claims share a common question — whether the financial giant obtained consent based on its privacy disclosures.
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April 21, 2026
Ohio Appeals Panel Questions Google Common Carrier Case
An Ohio appeals panel raised several questions on Tuesday about the manageability of a bid to designate Google's search engine as a common carrier and whether the effort would regulate online speech.
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April 21, 2026
Nourish Can't Ax Wiretap Claims In Google Data Sharing Row
An Illinois federal judge has refused to cut wiretap and negligence claims from a proposed class action accusing telehealth provider Nourish Inc. of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted website visitors' sensitive health information to Google, while tossing several privacy and contract allegations and rebuking the plaintiffs for filing a "press release complaint."
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April 21, 2026
Whitepages Can't Nix Colo. Telemarketing Fraud Class Claims
Online directories Whitepages and RocketReach lost their efforts to strike class allegations from parallel lawsuits claiming they violated Colorado's Prevention of Telemarketing Fraud Act, with a Seattle federal judge ruling Tuesday that the pleadings so far don't rule out proceeding on a classwide basis.
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April 21, 2026
Plaintiff Drops Pot Co. Spam Text Suit
A man who sued a cannabis retailer on allegations he received unsolicited text messages has voluntarily dismissed his Florida federal lawsuit just a month after the company argued the Telephone Consumer Protection Act only covers calls, not texts.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Council of Better Business Bureaus, National Advertising Division
- Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection
- U.S. Department of Justice
- State attorneys general offices
- State consumer protection regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- Fair Credit Billing Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Fair Debt Collections Practices Act
- Lanham Act
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- Truth in Lending Act
- State and international consumer protection legislation and regulation
- LITIGATION
- Deceptive or predatory loan and loan servicing disputes
- Suits over false or deceptive advertising, marketing, or labeling of services
- Cases over consumer data breaches
- Disputes over collection of consumers’ personal information
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of consumer protection practices
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- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals