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Consumer Protection Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on consumer rights law. Coverage includes litigation and enforcement actions over false advertising, deceptive trade practices, predatory lending, and debt collection, as well as related policy developments.
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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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March 11, 2026
Plaintiffs Seek Final OK Of $425M Capital One Rate Deal
Consumers claiming Capital One deceptively advertised its 360 Savings accounts have asked a Virginia federal judge to grant final approval to their $425 million settlement with the bank, a revised version of a previous deal that was rejected last year.
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March 11, 2026
La. Personal Injury Firm Faces Class Action Over Data Breach
Blake Jones Law Firm LLC, a personal injury firm operating out of New Orleans, has been hit by a proposed class action lawsuit in Kentucky federal court over its response to a data breach last year.
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March 10, 2026
Social Media Jury Told Of Plaintiff's 'Embarrassing Sexual Act'
A psychiatrist who assessed a bellwether plaintiff alleging a harmful addiction to Instagram and YouTube told a California jury Tuesday that the plaintiff's turbulent home life, genetic factors and even an alleged "embarrassing sexual act" that got her suspended from school supports a conclusion the plaintiff does not have a social media addiction.
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March 10, 2026
C-SPAN Shakes Suit Over Video Data Sharing With Facebook
A D.C. federal judge tossed a proposed class action accusing C-SPAN of illegally collecting and sharing information about website visitors' video-viewing habits, finding that the plaintiffs had neither proven they were "consumers" protected by federal video privacy law nor that their "personally identifiable information" had been divulged.
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March 10, 2026
Instagram's Advertisers Influence Safety Focus, Head Testifies
Instagram's head took the stand in New Mexico on Tuesday in Meta's defense case against the state attorney general's claims that its social media platforms harm mental health, telling a jury that one of the biggest economic reasons for the company's safety focus is pressure exerted by its advertisers.
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