NACA in the News: Beware of the fine print: How corporations hide behind their smallest words

Dallas Morning News, Beware of the fine print: How corporations hide behind their smallest words

“’I don’t think it’s your imagination,’ said Christine Hines of the National Association of Consumer Advocates. She has studied the fine print phenomenon for years. ‘I think they’re increasing,’ she told me.

In a report she released in June, Hines wrote that the FTC and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are reversing past rules rather than creating new ones.

She wrote that ‘with leadership focused on dismantling the bureau and discarding its mission, it is retreating from the progress it has made in tackling the unfair fine print.’

It’s a dark time for consumer protection. Those mini disclaimers are simply one way to feel this.”