Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate 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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has withdrawn a proposed rule aimed at protecting consumers from having their personal and financial information sold by data brokers.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The decision to reverse course comes after an industry lobby group called for the rule change to be withdrawn.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is set to withdraw a Biden-era rule aimed at cracking down on data brokers and their selling of Americans’ personal and financial information. In a notice in ...

The rule, proposed in December, sought to treat data brokers as consumer reporting agencies under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), subjecting them to additional requirements. Former CFPB Director ...

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

Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) filed its decision to withdraw the proposed rule titled “Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices (Regulation ...

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under acting director ... and other third parties. Proposed rules clarified that many data brokers are in fact “consumer reporting agencies ...