A fight is heating up over whether millions of consumer complaints against financial institutions should be made public. And consumer advocates are deeply worried about what comes next. Every month ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) The Danish Consumer Council and the Danish Ecological Council has in cooperation with DTU Environment developed a database, which help consumers identify more than 1,200 products that ...

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 ...

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's controversial complaint database that launched to the public last month is once again being questioned by lawmakers who argue the agency's site may be more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...