Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The CFPB's Proposed Data Broker Rule
RegFi Episode 9: Consumer Data Collection and Usage with Eric Ellman
CFPB's Rulemaking Under the FCRA (Part 3) – Crossover Episode With FCRA Focus Podcast
CFPB's Rulemaking Under the FCRA (Part 3) – Crossover Episode With The Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB's Rulemaking Under the FCRA (Part 2) – Crossover Episode With FCRA Focus Podcast - Consumer Finance Podcast
CFPB's Rulemaking Under the FCRA (Part 2) – Crossover Episode With The Consumer Finance Podcast - FCRA Focus Podcast
CFPB Request for Information About the Status of Data Brokers Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Episode 8: Why brokers, not breaches, are America's greatest privacy threat (with Rob Shavell)
Are you using artificial intelligence in your business operations? Do you have AI embedded in the goods and services you offer customers? The regulatory framework applicable to AI continues to develop, including across US...more
As we close out the first quarter of 2025, one thing is unmistakable: California’s regulatory efforts continue to center on data brokers. So far this year, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) proposed...more
This week in our March Privacy Forecast, we discuss a growing trend at both the federal and the state level – new laws and regulations that specifically target data brokers. At the federal level, two new legal frameworks...more
Last week, the Board of the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (Agency) approved a settlement with California-based data broker Background Alert, Inc., requiring Background Alert to cease its...more
The office of the Oregon Attorney General recently releases a six-month enforcement report regarding the Oregon’s Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA). What are we discussing with our clients?...more
On February 27, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced it reached a settlement with a data broker company that failed to register and pay an annual registration fee as required under the Delete Act. The...more
The CFPB has extended the comment period for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on data brokers until April 2, 2025; the comment period had been slated to expire on March 3, 2025....more
The California privacy regulator recently settled with a data broker (Key Marketing Advantage LLC) that it alleged had violated the state’s data broker law. Under the Delete Act, data brokers must, among other things,...more
On January 27, the Enforcement Division of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) settled with a data broker for failing to register and pay an annual fee, pertinent to the California Data Broker Registry under the...more
On January 8, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published in the Federal Register a Final Rule, "Preventing Access to U.S. Sensitive Personal Data and Government Related Data by Countries of Concern or Covered Persons,"...more
The final rule establishes prohibitions and restrictions on the transfer of certain data due to national security risks from specified countries of concern....more
In the fifth in our series of California developments, we turn to data broker obligations. There are two of note. First, the California privacy agency is moving forward Delete Act regulations it proposed earlier this year....more
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board met on November 8th and voted to adopt new regulations for data broker registration requirements. Under current requirements, data brokers are required to register with...more
On November 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), the agency tasked with implementing and enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act), unanimously voted to...more
On November 14, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), which is tasked with enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”), announced it settled with two data brokers, Growbots, Inc. and UpLead...more
On November 8, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) Board unanimously approved new regulations for data brokers, strengthening the Delete Act's provisions. The Delete Act, effective since January 2024, mandates...more
Keeping the season spooky for data brokers, the enforcement division of the California Privacy Protection Agency announced on October 30, 2024, that it is conducting a public investigative sweep of data broker registration...more
Businesses need to be proactive in updating their compliance measures to meet the ever-evolving set of privacy laws and regulatory expectations in 2024 and beyond. Following the notable uptick in state-level privacy laws...more
On February 28, 2024, President Biden issued Executive Order 14117 on Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern (the EO). The EO empowers...more
In October 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (S.B.) 362 into law, amending California’s data broker registration law. By January 31, 2024, qualifying data brokers must register with the California...more
The Situation: California has enacted a groundbreaking new privacy law aimed at data brokers—entities that sell information about consumers with whom they do not have a direct relationship. Under the Delete Act (SB 362), data...more
On October 10, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 362 into law. The “Delete Act” is a key piece of privacy legislation designed to further protect consumer online privacy rights and place further obligations on data...more
The White House hosted a roundtable meeting Tuesday on the data brokering industry as a part of an administration-wide push toward strengthening America’s consumer privacy landscape. The meeting brought together researchers,...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has issued several statements affecting the credit reporting industry in the last few months, including one on medical debts and one on auto financing, while at the same time...more
On February 7, 2020, and again on February 10, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released modified proposed regulations (“Modified Proposed Regulations”) to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal....more