The FTC has put tech companies on notice regarding compliance with the Take It Down Act (TIDA), a new federal law that became effective May 19, 2025, requiring platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate images including AI-generated deepfakes. The law's platform ...

Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark has been selected to co-chair a new national committee on artificial intelligence organized through the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), focusing on AI’s consumer protection, privacy, and public-safety implications. What the new role is ...

Millions of UK households could be nearing the limits of their financial resilience, as shrinking savings buffers collide with rising living costs, analysis from Equifax UK found. The credit reference agency’s latest Financial Health Report found that while consumers successfully ...

Public debt held hit $31.27 trillion at the end of the first quarter of 2026 — roughly twice the historical average. U.S. public debt has reached 100.2% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a milestone marking the first time since World ...

A South Jersey mom, Gabby Lomas of Magnolia, has filed a proposed class‑action lawsuit against Pennsylvania‑based Apex Asset Management, alleging the company used illegal threats and deceptive tactics to collect her medical debt after childbirth. What happened Lomas received over ...

Workers join Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Union Landmark Credit Union Live's employees have won recognition for their labor union – about a month after the new downtown Milwaukee concert venue's food service workers made a similar move. The ...

By Alan S. Kaplinsky on May 12, 2026 POSTED IN CFPB Just when the conventional wisdom seemed to be that the CFPB was no longer going to assert that it could not request funding from the Federal Reserve because of ...

Arizona federal courts have reaffirmed that text messages are treated as “calls” under the TCPA, and the Ninth Circuit has now squarely held the same, including in a recent decision involving political texts. Core holding An Arizona federal court, applying ...

A recent federal appellate decision held that consumer reporting agencies are not legally required under the FCRA to continuously monitor bankruptcy court dockets for filings affecting tradelines, so long as they reasonably rely on data from their furnishers and investigate ...