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Damnit! Well my day just got fecked up. Got a letter today from Liberty Mutual Insurance.My home owners insurance is cancelled. This is bullshit. #Insurance (Edit, removed dates because my anger read it as June 30 and not July)

Based on the reasons in the letter, they must have used old satellite photos and old public Zillow or real estate for sale photos because it mentions:

*Roof, poor condition, but we had a new roof installed, along with fascia boards, in 2023. It was a total rip out so only one layer now.

*Gutters- no downspouts— We had new seamless gutters installed at the same time as the roof

*Furnace oil tank rust: When the new energy efficient furnace was put in in 2021, we had a new, modern tank installed.

All of those items they listed as reasons makes me think they, or their underwriting AI program, used old, public photos of the house, inside and exterior. Nobody came, esp to do an inspection of the inside oil tank in the basement.

The letter has no directions on how to dispute and prevent them from cancelling. It just says I can request a copy of the report they relied on and dispute. No directions, phone number, etc. #ConsumerRights #Consumer #Legal #Law #Ohio #ConsumerProtection #LibertyMutual .

Game Publishers keep dropping support for games they have sold to consumers, leaving the games unplayable.

The "Stop Killing Games" European Citizens Initiative demands the EU propose a law to force developers to leave games in a playable state!

It has reached 500k of the 1m needed signatures (deadline July 31). We need your support!

EU Citizens Sign here: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/

CFPB now taking comments about the consumer complaint database, about: "(a) Whether the collection of information is necessary . . ." and "(c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected . . ." Comments are due 07/21/2025 at 11:59 pm EST

#lawfedi #CFPB #ConsumerProtection

federalregister.gov/documents/

www.federalregister.govFederal Register :: Request Access

Effective May 12, 2025, the FTC’s Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees, 16 C.F.R. Part 464, prohibits bait-and-switch pricing and other tactics used to obscure and misrepresent total prices and fees for live-event tickets and short-term lodging.

ftc.gov/business-guidance/reso

Federal Trade Commission · The Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees: Frequently Asked Questions

In an email sent to CFPB staff on Wednesday, CFPB chief legal officer Mark Paoletta announced that the agency would be shifting its focus away from its supervisory roles and towards “tangible harm to consumers.” Medical debt, student loans, consumer data, and digital payments have all been identified as topics the CFPB will “deprioritize,” according to the document. wired.com/story/cfpb-has-been-

WIRED · The CFPB Has Been GuttedBy Makena Kelly
#DOGE#Musk#Trump

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you want to reserve a room in a particular hotel, DO NOT search for the hotel name and call the number in one of the sponsored ads at the top of the search results.
More likely than not this is a reseller who will pretend you are talking directly to the hotel and charge you a LOT more than you would have paid the hotel directly.
Find the hotel website, confirm from the URL that you're on it, and call the number there.
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#consumerProtection #scam

Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the National #Treasury Employees v. #RussVought (acting director of CFPB) ruled that the attempt to dismantle #CFPB is likely unlawful, & the recent claims by the #Trump admin that the agency was still performing its statutorily mandated duties was "nothing more than window dressing."

As such she ordered a preliminary injunction.

#law #ConsumerProtection #AbuseOfPower #Trump
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/s

Monash University: Moving beyond ‘cyberwashing’ to ensure robust digital security. “A new Monash University report highlights the growing problem of organisations resorting to ‘cyberwashing’ to mislead the public about their data privacy practices and recommends measures to build a genuine culture of cybersecurity.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/19/monash-university-moving-beyond-cyberwashing-to-ensure-robust-digital-security/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · Monash University: Moving beyond ‘cyberwashing’ to ensure robust digital security | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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"The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s landmark privacy lawsuits under former chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were removed.

On the FTC’s website, the page hosting all of the agency’s business-related blogs and guidance no longer includes any information published during former president Joe Biden’s administration, current and former FTC employees, who spoke under anonymity for fear of retaliation, tell WIRED. These blogs contained advice from the FTC on how big tech companies could avoid violating consumer protection laws."

wired.com/story/federal-trade-

WIRED · FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI CompaniesBy Makena Kelly
#USA#Trump#FTC

#Trump #FTC Removes Posts Critical of #Amazon, #Microsoft, & #AI Companies

Business-guidance content published during the #Biden admin has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.

The Trump admin’s FTC removed 4yrs worth of business guidance blogs as of Tues morning, including important #ConsumerProtection info related to AI & the agency’s landmark #privacy lawsuits under fmr chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon & Microsoft.

#law #broligarchy
wired.com/story/federal-trade-

WIRED · FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI CompaniesBy Makena Kelly