Category Archives: Latest In Consumer News

Consumer Federation of California’s 2023 Policy Agenda

CFC is sponsoring or co-sponsoring the following 7 bills in the current legislative session: CFC-Sponsored Six-Bill Junk Fees Package  A multi-bill package sponsored by CFC and a wide range of consumer and small business organizations to crack down on so-called “junk fees.” CFC has worked on this … Read More ›

CFC Sponsors Bill in CA Legislature to Protect Consumers by Licensing and Regulating Crypto Companies

2022 Bill Vetoed by Gov. Newsom: Then Crypto Crashed, Leaving Consumers Holding the Bag For Immediate Release: Monday, January 30, 2023 SACRAMENTO – The Consumer Federation of California (CFC) will attempt a second time to make the cryptocurrency industry follow common sense consumer protections by sponsoring a … Read More ›

Crypto Firm FTX’s Ownership of a U.S. Bank Raises Questions

The New York Times article here

Justice Dept. Is Said to Investigate Ticketmaster’s Parent Company

The New York Times article here

Google agrees to pay nearly $392 million in a record privacy settlement

Los Angeles (LA) Times – Technology and the Internet News

Consumer Federation of California 2022 General Election Endorsements in Key California Races

With the 2022 General Election season voting deadline coming up, the Consumer Federation of California (CFC) wanted to provide to you, our CFC supporters, our recommendations for key races that may be on your ballot. When looking at races in the California State Legislature, CFC focused on … Read More ›

CFC in the News: Vote no on Prop. 24, a flawed privacy initiative

Click here to view article | April 13, 2020 | SF Chronicle | Editorial

California forces auto insurers to refund policyholders, but doesn’t specify how much

CFC in the News | April 13, 2020 | Mercury News | By Michael Nowels Petition filed by the Consumer Federation of California in late march of 2020. Read more here >>

Senate committee disses California’s big cryptocurrency push

April 05, 2022|By Susannah Luthi | POLITICO A representative for Yee and the Consumer Federation of California logged their opposition to the bill. In a letter to the committee and Kamlager, the Consumer Federation’s CEO Robert Herrell also stressed the digital currencies’ “wild fluctuations” that leave consumers “completely … Read More ›

A new California law could make your next car rental more expensive

February 24, 2022|By William P. David| THE NEW YORK TIMES “It’s just another way to get additional money without having it show up in the rack rate or the base rate on the car,” Robert Herrell, the executive director of the Consumer Federation of California, told me. “We … Read More ›

A Conversation with Richard Cordray

If you missed the online event on December 16, 2020 with Richard Cordray, author and former Director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he discussed his book Watchdog – How Protecting Consumers Can Save our Families, our Economy, and our Democracy.   you can view it … Read More ›

Workers deserve protection from COVID-19. The agency responsible for that doesn’t care.

Opinion NBC News

Prop. 24: Vote NO on confusing ‘Consumer Protection’

Bakersfield Californian Opinion

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