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.

Predatory Lending

Payday lenders, rent-to-own stores, tax refund anticipation loan (RAL) firms, auto title pawn stores and others have built an industry by kicking low-income, working-class and military families when they’re down. Some states have reined in these predatory lenders, but not all—and certainly not Congress. U.S. PIRG fights to regulate the industry’s misleading promises and triple-digt interest rates, and to educate consumers on how to protect themselves. 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.