Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the ...

the agency’s regulations implementing the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), which would bring data brokers within the CFPB’s regulatory perimeter. The proposed rule would subject certain ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has officially scrapped a proposed rule that would have imposed new ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is withdrawing a Biden-era proposal that sought to rein in the sale of Americans’ personal information by data brokers. In a federal register ...

The CFPB's proposed rule, "Protecting Americans From Harmful Data Broker Practices" would have amended Regulation V, which implements the FCRA. Third-party data brokers objected to the rule, arguing ...

You don't really know what data is out there,” Kain said. The proposed rule would require brokers to comply with some of the same regulations credit bureaus must follow. For example, data ...

The proposed rule would enforce regulations under the Fair Credit Reporting Act on data brokers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a Tuesday rule limiting data brokers ...

“Until the CFPB revisits data broker regulation, consumers remain the last line of defence against identity exploitation,” said Gogia. “Digital literacy is no longer optional—it’s ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pulled back a draft privacy rule that would have required businesses to take more steps before selling consumers' financial and personal data.

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The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is scrapping a proposal issued under former President Joe Biden that would have sharply limited the sale of Americans' private information by data brokers ...