Consumer Protection

8+ hour, 3+ min ago   (346+ words) As communities across Texas debate the future of automated license plate readers, five North Texas police chiefs are making the case for keeping the technology while strengthening the rules governing its use. NBC 5 Justice Reporter Shannon Miller sat down with…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (636+ words) AI agent developers are currently operating under a fragmented regulatory landscape that forces them to treat every state line as a potential litigation boundary. With more than 12 states having enacted specific companion chatbot legislation, the absence of a unified federal…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (129+ words) Spirit Airlines and Google have taken "consequential steps" to protect the privacy of millions of consumers whose data is being sold as part of the airline's bankruptcy, a consumer privacy ombudsman said in a report lodged in New York federal…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (117+ words) Pittsburgh-based law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday a pair of proposed class actions claiming damages from a data breach at the firm have not made specific complaints of actual harm caused by…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (561+ words) MORGANTOWN - With the use of advanced surveillance technology, including automated license plate reader cameras and facial recognition software, becoming increasingly mainstream, Morgantown City Council is looking to preemptively adopt ground rules about how such devices can be used by the…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1485+ words) Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.7.2026 11:45 AM Today, there's yet more evidence that the tide is turning against Flock, an automated license plate reader (ALPR) system in pervasive use around the country. Calling it "indiscriminate mass surveillance," a federal court in Oklahoma granted…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (239+ words) Updated on: October 17, 2024 / 9:15 AM EDT / CBS News The agency said it gets about 70 complaints a day about charges for subscriptions that are too difficult to cancel or that people did not realize they had signed up for to start with....

4+ hour, 12+ min ago   (490+ words) Editor’s note: This story has been edited to correct wording regarding the measure the City Council voted on. The Lafayette City Council on Tuesday voted to move forward without funding for a Flock Safety contract in the city’s planned 2027 budget,…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1075+ words) Some local officials have suggested they expect Abbott will reinstate funding for the surveillance cameras, which are politically unpopular, after the election. Dallas will keep more than 300 Flock Safety cameras originally slated for removal after the surveillance company paused certain…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1555+ words) The Vandalia Municipal Building is located at 333 James E. Bohanan Drive. Aimee Hancock — Staff Writer The Vandalia Police Department does not use Flock cameras for traditional traffic enforcement, like issuing speeding or red-light tickets, but they can use the system to…...