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Consumer Action updates daily, headline news from a variety of news sources. The archive provides access in reverse chronological order, grouped by year, than month to allow for easier browsing.

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2019

April

Apr 25, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Poor people’s privacy can’t be an afterthought
• Headlines | Alexa can share users’ home addresses

Apr 24, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | You’re about to get fewer robocalls, but maybe not for long
• Headlines | How Nest home protection allowed hackers in
• Headlines | Tax tips for home buyers and sellers
• Headlines | Leasing a Tesla? You’re paying for the company’s robotaxis

Apr 23, 2019

• Headlines | Seniors spending $22 billion from savings to cover health-care costs
• Headlines | Children are swallowing foreign objects more frequently
• Headlines | Undocumented immigrants are paying their taxes too

Apr 22, 2019

• Headlines | Elizabeth Warren’s plan: Cancel student debt and eliminate tuition
• Headlines | Why aren’t more people tapping into their home equity?
• Headlines | FTC considering oversight of Facebook’s Zuckerberg
• Headlines | How WhatsApp and other encryption apps shaped the Mueller report
• Headlines | Free speech puts U.S. on ‘collision course’ with global limits on big tech

Apr 21, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Asian garden turned into a community forum (Chinese)

Apr 19, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | How to make retirement last the rest of your life
• Headlines | Debt collectors may soon text, email consumers
• Headlines | CFPB head says people need ‘to help themselves’

Apr 18, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Why you can no longer get lost in the crowd
• Headlines | Uber vs. Lyft: Which ride-hailing app is better
• Headlines | Could debt collectors send you texts, emails?
• Headlines | No-income, no-asset mortgages are back
• Headlines | Military members could save tens of millions of dollars on student loans
• Headlines | Same-sex couples face higher rejection and worse mortgage rates

Apr 17, 2019

• Opinions & Editorials | Opinion: Privacy is too big to understand
• Headlines | Uber fixes electric bike breaking problem
• Headlines | Student loans shouldn’t keep you from investing
• Headlines | Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play recall leaves parents frustrated
• Spanish Headlines | Toma hijo, tu tarjeta de crédito
• Spanish Headlines | Algunos de los celulares plegables de Samsung se rompen

Apr 16, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Social media poses a threat to privacy - Americans still use it amid complaints (Chinese)
• Headlines | Vets could be first to pay as DeVos rolls back for-profit college oversight
• Headlines | Mulvaney’s master class in destroying the government from within
• Headlines | Your student loan servicer will call you back in a year. Sorry.
• Spanish Headlines | Cómo leer tu informe de crédito

Apr 15, 2019

• Headlines | Next year’s taxes may cost more unless taxpayers act now
• Headlines | Veterans could be harmed by lack of for-profit college oversight
• Headlines | American Airlines cancels 737 Max flights through Aug. 19
• Headlines | Streaming TV has become a pricey, complicated mess
• Spanish Headlines | Lyft retira bicicletas eléctricas tras problemas con frenos

Apr 14, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Fisher recalled 4.7 million baby shakers - it claimed more than 30 lives in 10 years (Chinese)
• Spanish Headlines | Empleadores abandonan la ‘tolerancia cero’ en pruebas de drogas en la era de la marihuana legal
• Spanish Headlines | SU BOLSILLO: Al planificar su jubilación no cometa este error con el Seguro Social

Apr 13, 2019

• Chinese Headlines | Assembly Member Ting proposed AB1356 to allow the counties and cities to issue conditional marijuana retail licenses (Chinese)
• Headlines | Why you should check your Social Security estimates
• Headlines | Google’s Sensorvault: A boon for law enforcement. How it works.

Apr 12, 2019

• Headlines | Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa
• Headlines | Millennials say college wasn’t worth it
• Headlines | Hand sanitizer is still under FDA investigation
• Headlines | States say DeVos is hurting efforts to police loan servicers

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