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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • September 01, 2026

    Samsung Mini LED TVs Lack Actual Mini LED Tech, Rival Says

    Samsung is falsely touting some of its televisions as incorporating advanced Mini LED technology that provides higher quality picture, despite that it simply "recycled" its preexisting low-end standard LED TV and relabeled them as a "supreme" Mini LED, alleges a Lanham Act suit filed Monday in California federal court.

  • September 01, 2026

    Calif. Privacy Agency Keeps Regulatory Heat On Data Brokers

    A Virginia-based data broker has become the latest enforcement target of the California Privacy Protection Agency, which announced Tuesday that the company would pay a $36,400 fine and commit to honoring requests made through a new consumer data deletion tool to resolve claims that it failed to timely register as a data broker.

  • September 01, 2026

    Watchdog Sues To Unmask Feds' 'Secret' Frontier AI Review

    A nonprofit ethics watchdog accused the Trump administration in D.C. federal court Tuesday of failing to hand over information about the "secret de facto regulatory regime" governing frontier artificial intelligence models.

  • September 01, 2026

    ETF Issuers Urge SEC To Focus On Risk Over Novelty

    Exchanges and issuers urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to apply existing rules for exchange-traded funds to oversee "novel" offerings holding asset classes like crypto and event contracts, while consumer advocacy groups took a hard line against products referencing sports or election wagers.

  • September 01, 2026

    HP Beats Printer Customers' Ink Cartridge Antitrust Fight

    HP Inc. customers seeking to hold the printer-maker liable for preventing them from using third-party ink cartridges in their machines have still not pled consumer fraud or antitrust claims viable enough to proceed, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.

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