Tenant Tales and Reseller Realities: Inside the FCRA Arena With Eric Ellman — FCRA Focus Podcast
Under the Hood: Exploring the CFPB's 2025 Focus — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The Next FCRA Frontier: Identity Theft and CFPB Updates — FCRA Focus Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Private Civil Consumer Financial Services Litigation to Partially Fill CFPB Void - Part 1
A Guide to Running Background Checks: What's the Tea in L&E?
2024 Credit Reporting Review: Impactful Changes and Future Forecast — FCRA Focus Podcast
FCRA Regulatory Year in Review — FCRA Focus Podcast
Introducing the Consumer Financial Services Year in Review Series: A Look at What’s to Come — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The CFPB's Proposed Data Broker Rule
Recent Developments in California's Arbitration Landscape — FCRA Focus Podcast
The FHA's Impact on Consumer Reporting Agencies – FCRA Focus Podcast
Breaking Down Credit Reporting With Credit Builders Alliance — FCRA Focus Podcast
Navigating FCRA and Debt Collection With Special Guest Bridgeforce's Michelle Macartney — FCRA Focus Podcast
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: What Banking Leaders Need to Know About the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling That the CFPB’s Funding Mechanism is Constitutional Part II
The Fair Credit Billing Act: Key Insights and Practical Tips — FCRA Focus Podcast
The Kirtz Decision: FCRA and Government Liability Unpacked — FCRA Focus Podcast
Resolving FCRA Disputes With e-OSCAR: Insights from Joel Strickland — FCRA Focus Podcast
U.S. District Court Addresses Federal Preemption for State Credit Reporting Laws
2024 Regulatory Hot Topics
The FTC Enforces the Fair Credit Reporting Act
On April 11, Tennessee enacted SB 816 (the “Act”), focusing on protecting consumers from consumer reporting agency practices. The primary change is the amendment of Section 47-18-2108(b), stating that “a consumer reporting...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
As the legislative season continues, some states, like Georgia and Oklahoma, have continued to progress in the efforts to establish a comprehensive data privacy law while others, such as Alabama, Illinois, and Massachusetts,...more
Join us for a new episode of Financial Services Focus with partner Eric Mitzenmacher and associate Kerri Webb, as they discuss the CFPB's recently proposed FCRA rulemaking, which, if finalized as proposed, would affect the...more
In the two weeks before Inauguration, both the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a flurry of rulemaking developments, policy announcements, and enforcement filings and...more
As the year comes to a close here are some of the highlights from the Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report with our most popular topics and posts from 2024. Expanding State Privacy Laws- This year saw a...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) titled “Protecting Americans From Harmful Data Broker Practices” 89 Fed. Reg. 101402 (Dec. 13, 2024). If adopted in its...more
In today's digital landscape, data brokers are like modern-day gold miners, sifting through the intimate details of our lives – our addresses, financial records, Social Security numbers – and quietly turning that information...more
We are moving westward this week from Iowa to Nebraska in our series of articles providing in-depth summaries of state consumer privacy laws taking effect across the nation. Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen (R) signed the...more
On November 12, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report examining the carve outs and limitations contained in comprehensive state privacy laws relating to financial institutions. In an...more
On November 12, the CFPB released a report examining federal and state consumer financial data privacy protections. The report highlighted how several states have recently enacted new data privacy laws, most of which provided...more
On November 12, the CFPB released a report analyzing federal and state-level privacy protections for consumer financial data. The current federal framework for financial data privacy relies on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...more
On November 12, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a new report titled, “State Consumer Privacy Laws and the Monetization of Consumer Financial Data.” The report provides an overview of the state...more
Jurisprudence on Article III standing requires a plaintiff to demonstrate an injury in fact, which must be both (1) concrete and (2) actual or imminent. For a plaintiff seeking redress in a data breach case, sufficiently...more
Welcome to this month’s issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security, & Data Protection practice....more
On September 19, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra delivered prepared remarks highlighting national security concerns related to the abuse and misuse of personal data. As previously covered by InfoBytes, Chopra emphasized President...more
Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee allowed the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (“RIDTPPA”) to pass on June 25, 2024 when he transmitted the bill back to the legislature without signature, making...more
On May 9, 2024, Governor Wes Moore signed the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), making Maryland the seventeenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law. While similar in certain respects to most Virginia Model...more
On May 25, 2024, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (the "Act"), which takes effect on July 31, 2025, for most controllers and on July 31, 2029, for certain postsecondary educational...more
On April 4, 2024, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (the "KCDPA" or "Act"), which takes effect January 1, 2026. The KCDPA maps in large part to the Virginia Consumer Data...more
On April 4, 2024, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law, with Governor Andy Beshear signing the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA) into law. The Kentucky law will go into...more
Are you a staffing agency navigating background screening legislation? With the sheer number of candidates you see every day, the monotony of background screening sends you into a false sense of calm....more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the April 2024 webinar....more
On April 2, at an event at the White House on Data Protection and National Security, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra’s articulated potential changes to the data security regulation landscape and noted that the Bureau is...more
Enforcement of Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA or the Act) starts now. Passed by the Washington state legislature last year and designed broadly to protect “consumer health data,” the Act is one part of a larger...more