Financial Privacy & Security

Current Campaigns

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.

Predatory Lending

Payday lenders, rent-to-own stores and others have built an industry by kicking low-income, working-class and military families when they’re down. TexPIRG 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, not cheaters. Consumers and investors as well as employees and taxpayers need tough laws and tough rules to guarantee that their investments are protected. Read more.

The Truth About Credit

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.

Homeowner's Rights

Home insurance rates in Texas are the highest in the nation. Predatory mortgage lending robs thousands of Texans of their wealth. To address these problems, TexPIRG has launched the Homeowners' Rights Campaign. 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. TexPIRG fights to make the financial marketplace fair, to protect vulnerable Texans 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. TexPIRG works to ensure that consumers' privacy and finances are secure.