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

Personal information on more than 364,000 people may have been compromised as part of a Christmas Day data breach. Here’s ...

Uncle Sam's consumer watchdog has scrapped plans to implement Biden-era rules that would've treated certain data brokers as credit bureaus, forcing them to follow stricter laws when flogging Americans ...

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

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule aimed at protecting consumers from having their personal and financial information sold by data brokers. The CFPB withdrew the ...

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 $389 billion data broker industry dodged regulation again. Here’s how it happened and what you can do to keep your info private.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule to limit how data brokers collect and sell sensitive ...

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.

On May 15, the CFPB published a Federal Register notice withdrawing its proposed rule on Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker ...