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.

Loose restrictions and a lack of transparency and oversight have allowed for financial institutions to engage in extremely risky practices including the buying and packaging of sub-prime mortgage-backed securities. Read more.

Identity Theft 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.

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. NHPIRG fights to make the financial marketplace work fairly, to protect vulnerable citizens of New Hampshire 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.

Hidden fees, abusive interest rates and lax security have become all too common in our under-regulated, high-tech marketplace. U.S. PIRG works to ensure that consumers' privacy and finances are secure.

How You Can Help

Call To Stop Identity Theft

Just Since February 2005, banks, Choicepoint, Bank of America, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Cardsystems and other companies and agencies have disclosed that they’ve lost the confidential financial information of over 53 million Americans.

Now, the banks and credit card companies are pressuring Congress to pass legislation to override the strongest state consumer protection. Call your representative and urge them to protect Americans from identity theft.

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