News & Analysis as of

Consumer Protection law-news Privacy

Read Consumer Protection updates, news, and legal commentary from leading lawyers and law firms:
Loeb & Loeb LLP

NAD Suggest Changes to Price Comparison Advertising

Loeb & Loeb LLP on

The National Advertising Division of BBB National Programs (NAD) recently issued a final decision in a competitive challenge brought by Ahold Delhaize USA against Lidl US, LLC concerning Lidl’s comparative grocery price...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

We’d Been Waiting Forever: FDA Issues Congressionally Mandated Report on Use of PFAS in Cosmetics

Key Takeaways - FDA delivered its first assessment of PFAS in cosmetics. Issued on December 29, 2025, the statutory deadline under MoCRA, the report is the first federal assessment of PFAS in cosmetic products and establishes...more

Troutman Amin LLP

OPENAI LIABLE FOR ROBOCALLS/TEXTS???: New TCPA Complaint Claims OpenAi and Twilio are Liable for User Initiated Robotexts...

Troutman Amin LLP on

Every trade show you attend these days you see “AI voice” outreach platforms promising to replace human agents. “They’re cheaper.” “They’re better.” “They’re more compliant.” As if consumers would rather talk to a bot than a...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New York’s FAIR Business Practices Act: What the Final Bill Changes and Why It Matters

New York has taken a significant step toward reshaping its consumer and market-protection framework with the enactment of the Fostering Affordability and Integrity through Reasonable (FAIR) Business Practices Act....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

AGs Settle Two Car Manufacturer Multistates at the End of 2025 in Multimillion Dollar Enforcement Actions

Three years have flown by since we last wrote about the letter state AGs sent to Hyundai and Kia over the companies’ lack of anti-theft technology....more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

22 State AGs Sue CFPB Acting Director for Loss of Access to CFPB Resources

In 2025, we wrote how Democrat state attorneys general opposed CFPB’s ANPRs reducing CFPB oversight, a bipartisan group of AGs urged the CFPB to distribute consumer refunds, and a Democratic group of AGs filed an amicus brief...more

Cooley LLP

CFPB and DOJ Withdraw 2023 Statement on ECOA and Noncitizen Borrowers

Cooley LLP on

On January 12, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally withdrew their October 2023 joint statement addressing creditors’ consideration of immigration status under the...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

TCPA Tracker: November-December 2025

The United States District Court for the Central District of California granted Defendant Monarch Healthcare, A Medical Group, Inc.’s motion to dismiss. Plaintiff Liseth Aguirre alleged she received phone calls from...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

International Regulators Draw the Line on AI-Generated Explicit Imagery

Baker Botts L.L.P. on

In a single week, regulators on three continents moved against AI platforms capable of generating explicit imagery. The UK’s media regulator opened a formal investigation....more

Goodwin

CFPB Says Some Earned Wage Access Products Not Considered Credit

Goodwin on

On December 23, 2025, the CFPB issued an advisory opinion stating that “covered” earned wage access (EWA) products fall outside the definition of credit under TILA’s Regulation Z, withdrawing a Biden Administration July 2024...more

Clark Hill PLC

Is Your Business a “Data Broker”?: California’s DROP Goes Live, and CALPrivacy Continues to Enforce Delete Act

Clark Hill PLC on

Four states have adopted laws regulating data brokers, but only one – California – has established a universal deletion mechanism whereby consumers are able to request that all data brokers registered in the state delete...more

Fisher Phillips

Text Message Lawsuits on the Rise: Top 10 Steps Businesses Should Consider For TCPA Compliance

Fisher Phillips on

We have started to see a shift in consumer privacy litigation as plaintiffs’ attorneys and state regulators are increasingly targeting the common business practice of sending text messages. While texting carries with it great...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

The CFPB’s Proposed Disparate Impact Amendments to Regulation B

Earlier this year, President Trump issued Executive Order 14281 (the “Executive Order”) directing a review of existing federal regulations and guidance documents that impose disparate impact liability (sometimes referred to...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Don’t Leave Your Robocall Obligations Behind in 2026!

Womble Bond Dickinson on

As the new year begins, it’s important to keep robocall requirements in mind. 2026 brings with it an invigorated desire to curb illegal robocalls. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started the year with back-to back...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

CFS Bites of the Month - 2025 Annual Review - Mortgage

Hudson Cook, LLP on

In this article, we share a timeline of monthly "bites" for the past year applicable to Mortgage....more

K&L Gates LLP

New Developments in the Taiwan Personal Data Protection Act

K&L Gates LLP on

On 11 November 2025, amendments to the Taiwan Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) were officially promulgated (個人資料保護法; the Amendments). The effective date of the Amendments will be determined by the Executive Yuan....more

Alston & Bird

State AGs Take a Page Out of the MAHA Playbook: Food & Beverage Industry in the Crosshairs

Alston & Bird on

Our Food & Beverage and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations Teams review recent moves by state attorneys general to follow the “Make America Healthy Again” agenda and what they signal for food and consumer...more

Kilpatrick

5 Key Takeaways | Navigating False Advertising Litigation Challenges, Strategies, and Risk Mitigation

Kilpatrick on

Barry M. Benjamin, Managing Partner of the New York office and Chair of Kilpatrick’s Advertising and Marketing group, was honored to co-present with Andrew Lustigman of Olshan law, a discussion of how to engage and strategize...more

Paul Hastings LLP

New York State Bans Use of Consumer Credit History for Employment Purposes

Paul Hastings LLP on

Last month, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed S3072, which amends the New York State Fair Credit Reporting Act to preclude New York employers from using applicant or employee consumer credit history for employment...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

AI Telemarketing Calls

Readers of this blog know that the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) declared that telemarketing calls utilizing artificial intelligence (“AI”) are subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (“TCPA”)...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Health Care Financing Compliance, Regulatory, and Privacy Pitfalls — Payments Pros – The Payments...

Troutman Pepper Locke on

In this crossover episode of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, guest host Taylor Gess dives into the rapidly evolving world of point-of-sale financing for medical and dental procedures with Troutman Pepper Locke...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Health Care Financing Compliance, Regulatory, and Privacy Pitfalls — The Consumer Finance Podcast

Troutman Pepper Locke on

In this crossover episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Payments Pros, guest host Taylor Gess dives into the rapidly evolving world of point-of-sale financing for medical and dental procedures with Troutman Pepper Locke...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Saul Ewing 2026 Predictions and Prognostications for the Health Care Delivery System

Saul Ewing LLP on

Happy new year! Welcome to 2026. On behalf of my colleagues at Saul Ewing and our Health Care Group, we are pleased to share with you our fearless predictions of trends and topics that will impact our nation's health care...more

K&L Gates LLP

To Z or Not to Z? CFPB Clarifies the Regulation Z Treatment of Certain Earned Wage Access Products

K&L Gates LLP on

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an advisory opinion (the 2025 Opinion), effective 23 December 2025, on whether earned wage access (EWA) products constitute “credit” under Regulation Z of the Truth in...more

Haynes Boone

What’s Happening with Warnings on Texas Food Labels?

Haynes Boone on

In 2025, Texas became the first state in the U.S. to enact a labeling mandate for foods containing any of 44 specified ingredients as part of Senate Bill 25 (SB 25), the Make Texas Healthy Again Act. To recap, SB 25 requires...more

45,964 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1,839

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide