Watch the video below, or check out this handy explainer, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 101: Why We Need a Consumer Watchdog.
And how does the FTC undertake its role as a consumer watchdog?
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The Beijing News blasts the Weifang authorities for "incompetence" in failing to supervise food safety, and demands more powers for the media to act as a consumer watchdog.
For the first time in history, we put in place a consumer watchdog -- someone whose only job is to look out for the interests of everyday Americans.
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Every day that there isn't -- or wasn't a consumer watchdog in that office was a day when Americans weren't protected from abuses by payday lenders, non-bank financial institutions, mortgage brokers, student loan providers.
The American people deserve, and this President believes they deserve, a consumer watchdog whose only job is to make sure that they're protected from abusive practices, and that's why the President took the action he did.
For the first time in history, the reforms that we passed put in place a consumer watchdog who is charged with protecting everyday Americans from being taken advantage of by mortgage lenders or payday lenders or debt collectors.
And a key component of that was making sure that we have a consumer watchdog in place who can police what mortgage brokers and payday lenders and other non-bank financial entities are able to do when it comes to consumers.
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So I think that if there were a referendum or plebiscite in Maine, I feel pretty confident that Democrats, independents and Republicans would support the confirmation of a consumer watchdog whose job it is to look out, in Washington, for their interests in their dealings with financial institutions.
All told, this reform puts in place the strongest consumer financial protections in history, and it creates a new consumer watchdog to enforce those protections.
In fact, as part of reform, a new consumer watchdog is now standing up.
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Or that some of the most effective bank lobbying, for instance against a new consumer watchdog for financial products, has been by small community banks rather than Wall Street behemoths.
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Consumer Watchdog, a consumer-rights group, has expressed reservations about the cars on privacy grounds, saying they would allow Google to gather personal information about passengers.
And every day America has to wait for a new consumer protection watchdog is another day that dishonest businesses can target and take advantage of students, seniors, and service members.
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In the Jones case, the state should have done more to notify Jones before selling his house, says Michael Kirkpatrick, a lawyer at consumer watchdog group Public Citizen, who argued Jones' case before the court in January.
Those actions send pangs of doubt through die-hard supporters of the unfettered right to sue, such as Graham Steele, a staff attorney at consumer watchdog group Public Citizen.
And its Congressional allies dug in to block the appointment of a federal consumer-protection watchdog, in hopes of crippling the fledgling agency dedicated to protecting ordinary Americans from predatory banking practices.
Bartees Cox, a spokesman for the consumer watchdog group Public Knowledge, says it will watching to ensure the program doesn't evolve into imposing harsher punishments by Internet providers, such as terminating a person's Internet access altogether if they are accused of being a prolific violator.
Rather than trying to dive into the complexities of creating a service like this without shutting down commerce on the Internet, Consumer Watchdog has put out a fairly salacious and inaccurate cartoon.
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Now, you can approach and file a complaint with a watchdog agency in the guise of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to obtain satisfaction.
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However, the Consumer Council for Water, a watchdog which represents customers, suggested that this inflation link had allowed companies to make excessive returns.
Consumer Watchdog, which describes itself as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, voiced concern that the Do Not Track effort would undercut a plan from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create a strict Do Not Track standard.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and Ofcom (the consumer watchdog and media regulator) are in a somewhat delicate position as they already approved the deal along competition law lines.
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"While we hope that other companies do not follow suit, history has shown us they adopt a pack mentality on pricing, " said Audrey Gallacher, of watchdog Consumer Focus.
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