MANHATTAN (CN) – Part of a longstanding erosion of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s interim director Mick Mulvaney recently announced his intent to shut down a public ...

The panic over lead-contaminated toys revealed a serious shortcoming in safety efforts: Consumers, particularly parents, lack trusted sources to turn to for detailed information on the safety of the ...

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Acxiom's database has over 500 million active consumers, and average of 1,500 data points per consumer. Profits of $77.6 million in last fiscal year, with sales of $1.13 billion. Congress and privacy ...

On Christmas day, a senior citizen in south Orange County was cooking on a Whirlpool glass cooktop when “the glass cook top shattered to pieces with glass flying all over and even pieces hitting the ...

We told you recently about the Consumer Product Safety Commission‘s new online complaint database, SaferProducts.gov, meant to give people the skinny about products they own or want to buy. We heard ...

WASHINGTON — Nobody knew what was wrong with 20-month-old Jacob Esses when he collapsed in October at his family’s Arkansas home and vomited colorful little beads. “I was flailing,” his mother Shelby ...

Researchers are becoming so adept at mining information from genealogical, medical and police genetic databases that it is becoming difficult to protect anyone’s privacy—even those who have never ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue to publish its database of consumer complaints about financial companies, ending — for now — a battle over public access to one of the agency’s ...

In a surprise move, the United States Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced it will keep its consumer complaints database open to the public following uncertainty over whether it ...

The new owner of a consumer DNA database that has powered a revolution in forensics vowed to resist attempts by police to circumvent the site's privacy rules. Verogen, a California-based DNA analysis ...