#consumer protection

#consumer protection

When you purchase the top-selling creatine gummies on Amazon, you expect to get what you pay for. But a recent study found that four out of six popular brands contained virtually no creatine at all. In the case of the worst offender, customers would need to consume 2,000 gummies to get the advertised 5-gram dose. Still, combined these products sell over 50,000 units monthly and boast 4.4+ star ratings.

Three recent appointments demonstrate Mamdani's commitment to that long-cited political adage that personnel is policy. He and his team are drawing qualified, visionary, sometimes unconventional talent from the best of previous administrations-all deployed to pull on as many levers as possible to make New York a more just and affordable city.

Providing the ability to opt out is mandatory for marketing messages. In this case, Lululemon sent service emails, such as shipping updates that also contained sales material and direct links to promotions. This was an easily avoidable error that has led to hundreds of thousands of marketing emails being sent without a way for people to opt out.

Quantum dots are used in certain display types for improved efficiency and color accuracy. For example, some Samsung TVs use ultraviolet backlight. Ultraviolet LEDs are very efficient, but UV isn't even in the visible spectrum. Quantum dots absorb this UV light and output visible light in the desired color.

We recently learned that the collectible copper cups included in the Relic Box contain elevated levels of lead and should be disposed of. We are extremely frustrated that this happened. We take our merch incredibly seriously and would never intentionally sell something we didn't believe was 100% legit.

EBT card theft is a huge, huge problem. In New York alone, in the first six months of last year, $14 million of SNAP benefits were stolen. We get these complaints all the time to our office.

The groups complain about "the increasing concentration of power and lack of alternatives in digital markets, the push for deregulation, and the urgent need to enforce digital laws to protect our fundamental rights and create a level playing field for competition and innovation."

When multiple technicians declare an appliance unreparable under warranty, the manufacturer should step up and make it right—not play games with technicalities. After the second failed repair attempt, Frigidaire should have offered a replacement or refund under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which requires manufacturers to provide reasonable remedies when products fail to conform to their warranties.

Barrister John Nolan told Judge Sarah Berkeley in the Circuit Civil Court today that Eve Stears's mum had brought her then 13-year-old daughter to "The Happy Nail" salon in Collock, Dublin, to have her nails done.

Oil distributors, retailers and wholesalers have been accused of taking advantage of the crisis in the Middle East to price gouge Irish consumers, farmers and businesses. Home-heating oil prices have now shot up by €500 for 1,000 litres since last week, with petrol and diesel also surging at the pumps.

She told the committee the lack of regulation of managing agents was "a real problem" and said the government needed "to go further and harder" on proposals by Lord Best in 2019 to introduce an independent regulator.

T-Mobile hit back at Verizon on Monday in Manhattan federal court, filing a countersuit that accuses Verizon's 'Better Deal' campaign of luring customers into stores with promises of big savings and then steering them toward pricier add-ons. What started as a marketing spat has now turned into a full-on legal fight over whether in-store upselling crosses the line into deceptive advertising.

Samsung uses automated content recognition (ACR) technology, which can capture hundreds of images of what's on your TV screen each minute, without first obtaining Texans' expressed, informed consent. As mentioned earlier, the concern is that Samsung would use this information for targeted advertising. Although Samsung has disclosures in place and TV owners can opt out of ACR, Paxton finds that the disclosures are inadequate, vague, and run afoul of state law.

The group believes that proposed requirements for reverse mortgage counseling agencies to be physically located in the state, and for their services to be conducted in person, will create a severe and unnecessary chilling effect on seniors' ability to obtain a reverse mortgage in New Jersey.

In a complaint filed in California federal court, the consumer protection agency said the company misled drivers about how it calculated their base pay, tips and special incentive earnings opportunities. The company also didn't tell customers that tips wouldn't be fully paid to the person who made their delivery, the lawsuit alleges.

Calls where no one responds are rarely accidental. In many cases, they are automated reconnaissance events. Fraud operations run at industrial scale, and before they invest human effort in a target, they validate that a number is active and answered by a real person.

UK telecoms companies are retiring traditional landline services and replacing them with internet-based home phone connections. The industry has set a deadline of January 2027 to complete this switch with roughly 3.2 million homes still to move over. While the digital switchover has been straightforward for most households, for some vulnerable customers, such as those with telecare devices, it has been very stressful.

Tech execs are expected at the White House next week to sign what President Trump called a "ratepayer protection pledge" during Tuesday's State of the Union. OpenAI and Amazon are taking part in the "pledge" initiative, the companies confirmed. Others expected include Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI and Oracle, Fox News reported.

Genice Horta, 51, said that neither the shelter nor the rescue group she worked for told her the dog, a Belgian Malinois named Maximus, had bitten a teenager and a shelter employee, sending both to the hospital. After six surgeries to repair the bones and nerves in her right arm, Horta was left with permanent damage, according to a brief by her attorneys in the lawsuit she filed in 2022.