Consumer protection

Read a magazine

Full-text coverage of over 2000 popular magazines and journals, including Consumer Reports (with a three-month delay), Consumers Digest, Consumers' Research Magazine, and Good Housekeeping.

Websites

Access to business and consumer alerts, as well as other helpful consumer resources.

Consumer information resources from the federal government, covering a wide range of topics including food, product safety, health, money, transportation, technology, children, and careers and education.

Access consumer protection documents published by the Consumer Trade Commission relating to e-commerce and the Internet, including online shopping tips and how to be web-ready.

This central site allows you to request a free credit file disclosure, commonly called a credit report, once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

A quarterly newsletter from the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.

Resource that lists class action suits, product recalls, and missing children.

A “one-stop shop” for government recalls.

This Better Business Bureau site offers online shopping tips, information about protecting your online privacy, and online fraud “red flags”.

Regulatory and financial information from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Includes company filings (Edgar), trade suspensions, and investor information. You can also protect your money on the “Check out brokers and advisers” page.