Consumer Issues
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GOP Blocks Cordray, Limits CFPB (7/19/2011)
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About Tort Reform: See this move..."Hot Coffee"
http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp
Ct Department of Consumer Protection
Consumer Financial
ProtectionBureau
Fixya (Fix it for Free)
WebWatch (by Consumer Reports)
Alliance for Retired Americans
About the AARP.
get rid of credit card "gotchas" (www.creditcardreform.org an initiative of Consumer Reports.)
Soft Drinks and Watching Flea Markets for Terrorists.
Although the FDA has been dysfunctional, your right to sue is limited. It's another win for Corporations in the Republican war against people.
Privacy Issues
protect the privacy of my financial information (www.financialprivacynow.org)
What's the price of loyalty cards ?
Nolo law resource for the non-lawyer.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
DRM
The recording industry is anxious to impose DRM (Digital Rights Management) on a number of products. Record companies have put 'root kits' on consumers computers to enforce copy protection on audio products they sell...and also opening security holes for computers involved. Newer mass information storage devices may never be fully functional for consumers as a result of industry paranoia. http://www.fsf.org/campaigns has details.
Please support the Defective
By Design in its efforts to control DRM, to keep software free, to limit software
patents, and to open hardware so that it cannot be used for rigged
voting machines or for consumer surveillance. Companies like Diebold
should be producing products that are completely transparent.
Microsoft, since it has just bought a Linux company (SUSE), will be
aiming to enforce its patents on the Linux
community soon
Computer hardware has been increasingly defective by design: or
Web Site Watch Dog: stopbadware.org/
Joe Stiglitz discusses trade protected intellectual property rights (TRIPs) in his book: Making Globalization Work. Clearly, there are serious consumer issues involved, mostly ignored in the mainstream media.
A related site http://www.publicknowledge.org/
Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut and its national allies have released the results of testing 1,200 of the most popular children's toys for toxic chemicals. You can see the results on its website: http://www.healthytoys.org It was developed to better inform consumers about toy purchases, and to encourage parents to urge the government to take action. Check out two other websites on toxic toys: www.protect-our-kids.org
Quo Warranto.com (look for a lawyer)
reduce the cost and improve the quality of telecommunications services (www.hearusnow.org) ;