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Latest News in Consumer Protection
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December 05, 2025
Elon Musk's X Fined €120M By EU For Misleading Users
The European Commission revealed Friday that it has fined social media platform X €120 million ($140 million) for breaching European Union digital transparency rules, including by "deceiving" users through the blue checkmarks for so-called verified accounts.
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December 04, 2025
Calif. Judge Tosses Baby Food Experts In Heavy Metals Suits
A California state judge Wednesday tossed experts in a suit alleging that the presence of heavy metals in Hain Celestial baby foods caused a child's brain damage, finding that a toxicologist couldn't single out exposure from different companies.
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December 04, 2025
Dems Press CFPB's Vought On Mortgage Rate Shutdown Plan
Senate Democrats are demanding clarity on the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's benchmark mortgage-rate work if the Trump administration lets the agency go dark, warning of imminent potential chaos for the $13 trillion mortgage market.
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December 04, 2025
Fla. Gov Floats AI 'Bill Of Rights' Amid Federal Pushback
Florida's Republican governor on Thursday put forth a proposed framework to protect consumers from potential risks posed by artificial intelligence systems, including unauthorized uses of their data and the harms that chatbots pose to minors, a move that comes as the Trump administration and some Republicans in Congress push for states to be blocked from regulating the emerging technology.
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December 04, 2025
Google Asks 5th Circ. To Transfer Monopoly Suit To Calif.
Google on Thursday urged the Fifth Circuit to transfer mobile analytics software company Branch Metric's lawsuit accusing the search giant of monopolizing several markets related to mobile device searches, saying a lower court was wrong to keep the suit in Texas since California is the "clearly more convenient forum."
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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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- 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