Consumer Protection
What is Consumer Protection?
Laws and regulations designed to safeguard consumers from unfair business practices, fraud, and harmful products or services.
Terms that appear alongside consumer protection
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as consumer protection. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 12 shared controls
- data protection 10 shared controls
- gdpr 10 shared controls
- consent 9 shared controls
- accountability 8 shared controls
- policy 6 shared controls
- breach notification 5 shared controls
- hipaa 5 shared controls
Frameworks that govern consumer protection
What the standards actually require on consumer protection
Requirements naming consumer protection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
A consumer who contracts at a distance or electronically may withdraw from a purchase, hire or service within ten days of contracting for services or of delivery for goods, or within any longer period agreed in the contract.
lebanon-electronic-transactions-and-personal-data-protection-law-law-no-81-2018::129 · Article 129 (Consumer Protection Law, Article 55 as replaced): the ten-day right to withdraw from distance and electronic contracts →Manage Maryland Attorney General enforcement under Section 14-4613 and Maryland Consumer Protection Act (Md. Comm. Law Article Section 13-301).
MD-MODPA-Enforcement-Maryland-AG-Brown-CPD-Section-14-4613-10K-Per-Violation-Consumer-Protection-Act · Maryland MODPA Enforcement + Maryland AG + CPD + Section 14-4613 + USD 10K Per Violation + Consumer Protection Act →Each Party must publish information on the consumer protection it provides to users of electronic commerce, including how consumers can pursue remedies and how businesses can comply with legal requirements.
regional-comprehensive-economic-partnership-rcep-e-commerce-chapter::12.7.4 · Article 12.7.4: Publish consumer protection information for e-commerce users →Providers selling goods or services to consumers must protect consumers' fair-trading rights and must not use algorithms to commit unreasonable differential treatment on price or trading conditions based on consumer preferences or trading habits.
CN-ALG-A21 · Consumer Protection (No Price Discrimination) →Any person using electronic communications for commercial activities with consumers must comply with all other consumer protection provisions and regulations, which in practice brings in the Law on Consumer Protection of 2019.
cambodia-law-on-electronic-commerce-2019::33 · Article 33: comply with consumer protection law in online dealings →Each Party shall adopt or maintain consumer protection laws to proscribe fraudulent, misleading or deceptive conduct that causes harm to consumers engaged in electronic commerce, and shall promote cooperation between national consumer protection agencies on cr...
DEPA-6.3 · Online Consumer Protection →Questions people ask about consumer protection
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