Financial Privacy & Security

Current Campaigns

Reining In Wall Street

For too long, bankers themselves have written the rules on Wall Street.

This year, that has to change. Read more.

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.

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. RIPIRG fights to regulate the industry’s misleading promises and triple-digit interest rates, and to educate consumers on how to protect themselves. Read more.

Investor Protection

Markets should pick winners and losers—cheaters shouldn't be able to game the system. Consumers and investors as well as employees and taxpayers need tough laws and tough rules to guarantee that their investments are protected. Read more.

Overview

Conducting the day-to-day business of our lives shouldn’t come at the cost of our financial security. But too often, the big banks, insurance and investment companies and other firms take advantage of unsuspecting consumers or manipulate the system. RIPIRG fights to make the financial marketplace work fairly, to protect vulnerable Americans from predatory lending terms, to equip consumers with the knowledge to protect their finances, and to expose business practices that make us vulnerable to identity theft, fraud and abusive credit rates.