PRESS ROOM

Online merchants are now free to use information to build customer profiles for marketing or for sale to third parties who may use this information for any purpose.

We do not support changing the current standard. If something is 90 percent made in the U.S., it should say 90 percent made in the U.S., said Richard Holober, CFC executive director.

Jim Doucette served the Sacramento Fire Department for more than 30 years, and he understood the perils of the job when he accepted it. But there was one hazard he did not anticipate: the effects of burning toxic chemicals embedded in furniture.

Most Americans assume when they see a Made in USA label that the product is made domestically. But the meaning of Made in USA is currently up for debate in our state.

The Consumer Federation of California released its 2012 Scorecard for State Legislators, rating lawmakers on their votes cast on key consumer rights bills.

The Supreme Court has given a gift to online businesses that have demonstrated a callous disregard for customer privacy. The decision is an affront to millions of Californians who care about privacy.

KTVU FOX TV 2, San Francisco, CA: Richard Holober discusses the false promise of Prop 33, which "would allow for a fourth factor that is not connected to risk" to raise rates.

...And its billionaire chairman is spending a fortune on Prop 33 to make it easier to manipulate the marketplace and cherry pick the customers it wants, while raising rates for millions of Californians, including motorists with perfect driving records.

A judge today rejected a legal challenge to the ballot language proposed for Proposition 33, an insurance executive's plan to rewrite California law governing auto premiums.