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 January 30, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its updated list of consumer reporting companies for 2025. The list includes nationwide consumer reporting companies as well as several other...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
Recently, the Eastern District of Kentucky denied a motion to dismiss under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) after finding the plaintiffs alleged sufficient facts to support a reasonable inference that credit reports were...more
Between December 9 and 11, 2024, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) held its annual Capital Forum in Washington, D.C. State AGs, AGs-elect, AG office staff, and private sector attendees heard from federal...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced this week that it intends to increase the scrutiny on data brokers to better protect service members, law enforcement officials, domestic violence victims, senior...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 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 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
Welcome to the Class Action & MDL Roundup, our quarterly review of decisions and settlements in the class action arena. In this edition, student-athletes win an NIL round, Canadians in California isn’t personal...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) burst into the public consciousness less than one year ago, with OpenAI’s highly successful public release of ChatGPT. Since then, AI-enabled products and services have proliferated throughout the...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is currently considering a rulemaking to address various consumer reporting topics under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and has released an Outline of Proposals and...more
From application to termination, employee privacy considerations live throughout all stages of the employment lifecycle. Thus, employers should take heed of best practices and mechanisms when handling employee personal...more
The Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) became law on June 16, 2023. Texas becomes the 11th state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa,...more
The Volunteer State became the eighth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law after Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed the Tennessee Information Protection Act (“TIPA”) into law yesterday, May 11. Tennessee joins a growing...more
A threshold consideration for businesses trying to understand the actors that enforce U.S. consumer privacy laws is an analysis of which laws apply to that business. This is because U.S. consumer privacy laws exist as a...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on March 15, 2023, that it is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) about the business practices of data brokers, which the agency said will assist it in “planned...more
The financial services sector must already contend with a maze of regulations in a variety of areas, and 2023 is poised to usher in new cybersecurity regulations for the industry. Organizations should ensure their security...more
INTRODUCTION - As more of our lives and work become digitized, an inherent overlap continues to grow between data privacy and cyber security programs. Think of two similarly sized circles: in the past, data privacy and cyber...more
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more
It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we might expect to see in the workplace in the coming year. After all: - At the start of 2020, no one could have predicted COVID-19. - None of us had heard the phrase...more
On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), titled “Trade Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security”. The wide-ranging ANPR seeks feedback...more
The financial technology (“Fintech”) industry has boomed over the last decade, from the rise of mobile payment apps, robo-advisers, lending platforms, consumer-friendly brokerages to cryptocurrency trading platforms. By their...more
On May 4, 2022, the Connecticut legislature passed S.B. 6 entitled the “Connecticut Data Privacy Act” (CDPA) with the bill now moving to Governor Ned Lamont’s desk for signature. Although Governor Lamont is generally expected...more