Colorado governor signs bills improving state’s immigrant driver’s license...
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed bills that aim to boost consumer privacy protections and seek to improve the state’s long-embattled driver’s license program for people living in the...
View ArticleColorado’s new consumer data protection law among the most demanding in the...
A new law that took effect on Saturday gives Colorado some of the most demanding standards for consumer data protection in the country. And businesses and government agencies that keep Coloradans’...
View ArticleWith fees gone, advocates urge Colorado consumers to freeze their credit reports
CoPIRG, the consumer advocacy group, urged Colorado consumers to immediately freeze their credit reports with the three major credit bureaus after fees to do that were lifted on Friday. And while they...
View Article“Swipe right to sue”: Now you can file lawsuits the same way you find hookups...
Exorbitant legal fees, seemingly endless bureaucracy and an uncertain time investment mean that the decision to pursue legal action against a company or an individual is often fraught with hesitation....
View ArticleMarriott’s hotel empire reports massive, extended data breach
BETHESDA, Md. — A security breach inside Marriott’s worldwide hotel empire has compromised the information of as many as 500 million guests, exposing in some cases credit card numbers, passport numbers...
View ArticleSaturday, Feb. 9, 2019 letters: DIA sign, health care, Equifax data breach
DIA sign is distracting Re: “A sign of the times: DIA ready to cash in,” Feb. 7 news story Thank you so much for your article on the lights along Peña Boulevard. While it is pretty from a distance, it...
View ArticleEquifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement
NEW YORK — Equifax will pay at least $700 million — and potentially much more — to settle lawsuits over a 2017 data breach that exposed the Social Security numbers and similar sensitive information of...
View ArticleEquifax $700M settlement: What consumers should know
Equifax’s $700 million settlement with the U.S. government over a massive 2017 data breach includes up to $425 million for consumers. The breach was one of the largest ever to threaten private...
View ArticleCapital One target of massive data breach
SEATTLE — A security breach at Capital One Financial, one of the nation’s largest issuers of credit cards, compromised the personal information of about 106 million people, and in some cases the hacker...
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The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem
I recently used my credit card to buy a banana. Then I tried to figure out how my credit card let companies buy me. You might think my 29-cent swipe at Target would be just between me and my bank....
View ArticleFrontier, other airlines generated more consumer complaints in Colorado last...
The treatment consumers received at the hands of Frontier and other airlines last year generated more complaints to the state than even pesky robocalls and retail scams, according to a list of the top...
View Article325,000 Coloradans will lose Medicaid. Vaccines won’t be free for everyone....
Starting in April, Colorado will see the largest shift in how people get their health insurance since the Affordable Care Act took effect in 2014. About 325,000 people in Colorado are expected to be...
View ArticleNew Colorado law hides medical debt on credit reports
Under a new Colorado law, any medical debt on your credit report should have been hidden, but it’s a good idea to double-check, according to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. House Bill 23-1126,...
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