Current Campaigns
Investor Protection
In an increasingly high-tech marketplace, we trust businesses with more of our personal information than ever before. Yet many companies aren’t as careful as we think—concealing security breaches or questionable sales of information that make consumers vulnerable to identity theft. Read more.
Identity Theft Prevention
MASSPIRG helped pass legislation that will protect the personal information of consumers by allowing them to freeze their credit reports, as well as require the notification of consumers when their information is compromised in a security breach. Read more. Click here for information on how to set up a security freeze.
Cell Phone Users' Bill of Rights
MASSPIRG is leading the campaign to pass the Cell Phone Users' Bill of Rights to ensure that the cell phone industry is "governed by basic consumer standards." Read more.
Debt Collection Bill
MASSPIRG is working to protect consumers against deceptive practices by debt collectors. Read more.
Credit Card Trap
More than half of all Americans carry credit card debt, partially because of a variety of unfair practices used by credit card companies to trap consumers in a cycle of over-priced debt. Read more.
Bank Fees And Practices
Too often, the big banks, insurance and investment companies and other firms take advantage of unsuspecting consumers or manipulate the system. Read more.
Car Buyers' Bill of Rights
MASSPIRG is working to protect consumers against deceptive auto lending and marketing schemes by car dealers. Read more.
Price Disclosure
Price disclosure is a basic consumer right. Price information that is accurate, comparable, and meaningful is the fundamental tool that consumers use to exercise their "clout" in the marketplace. When basic consumer information is misleading, absent, random or not in a form which can be compared, the consumers' power in the market place is unfairly and needlessly compromised. Read more.
