NNPA NEWSWIRE — A recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit against Idaho-based company, Kochava, brought to light the severe lack of regulations and guidelines surrounding data...
(The Washington Post) – Hacked companies, get ready — a federal court just made it easier for the government to sue you. “Monday’s decision from the...
ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The University of Phoenix, which runs an online college popular among military veterans, is under federal investigation for possible...
(Bloomberg Review) – Is Thursday’s $1.2 billion antitrust settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries a victory for consumers? Or is it a sign...
(Philly.com) – The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., now the parent company of Cephalon, agreed to repay $1.2 billion in...
(NWA Online) – The Federal Trade Commission and all 50 states accused four cancer charities of being “sham charities,” saying the groups had deceived donors and...
JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is taking the nation’s biggest satellite TV provider to court, accusing DirecTV of misleading millions of...
(CBS News) – For a lot of debt collection companies, it’s hard to stay on the right side of the law. That’s because consumers have...
(USA Today) – Office-supply chain Staples agreed to buy its sole remaining competitor, Office Depot, in a $6.3 billion-deal that would create one mega-office-supply chain....
JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest prepaid mobile provider, TracFone Wireless, will pay $40 million to settle government claims that it...
(CBS News) – Three years after issuing a report revealing that one in five consumers had a documented error on their credit reports, a follow-up study by...
Marcy Gordon, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — T-Mobile US will pay up to $90 million, mostly in refunds, for billing customers for cellphone text services...
JOAN LOWY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nineteen automakers accounting for most of the passenger cars and trucks sold in the U.S. have signed onto a...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist Although the rate of foreclosures nationwide has declined by April, 694,000 homeowners were still in some form of foreclosure, according to...
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Columnist As higher education costs continue to increase faster than most consumers’ income, college loan debt has now topped $1.2 trillion....
[New York Times] IN 1999, Judy Ann Thomas of Elyria, Ohio, applied for a loan. But the bank mixed up her record with the file of...
[NNPA] by William Garth Special to the NNPA from The Chicago Citizen A Federal Trade Commission study of the U.S. credit reporting industry found that five...
