Your phone buzzes with an email notification. Subject line: Important information about a recent security incident. Sounds familiar, right? Unfortunately, security incidents are more and more common, ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Enterprises see protecting customer personal information as the top reason to encrypt data, and yet report actually encrypting customer data at a far lower rate. This and ...

As previously covered here and here, in March 2025 the Office of the Attorney General for the State of New York introduced ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named a former Federal Trade Commission official to lead the city’s consumer protection agency, vowing to take an aggressive stance on behalf of gig workers and ...

What are the lessons learned from the Sephora $1.2 million consumer data privacy settlement for potential CCPA violations? In this 21st century world of people using phones for multiple reasons other ...

NORTHBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allstate released the latest version of its mobile app, adding valuable features that go beyond insurance, including GasBuddy®, SpotHero®, Risk Factor®, and Allstate ...

Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

Grocery delivery firm Instacart will pay $60 million to refund consumers who were deceived into enrolling in the company’s ...

A lawsuit from three years ago between the state of Hawaiʻi and a financial technology company reached a multimillion-dollar ...

The Hawaiʻi Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Office of Consumer Protection has reached a $6 million settlement ...