Podcast - The CFPB's Proposal to Create a Public Registry
Product lifecycle is the common thread in emerging Right to Repair and fashion waste legislation - Whether consumers are looking at coffeemakers, smartphones, jeans or shoes, many are rejecting planned obsolescence — the...more
On May 19, 2024, the Minnesota Legislature passed a comprehensive privacy bill, sending the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) to Governor Tim Walz’s desk for signature into law. The law, which would take effect...more
An appellate court recently ruled that the California Privacy Protection Agency’s regulations issued under the state’s California Consumer Privacy Act (”CCPA”) will take effect immediately. These regulations have been...more
Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMDA) was enacted in an effort to close a perceived gap in privacy protection for consumer health data. MHMDA’s focus on consumer health data and right of private action deviate from...more
On January 18, 2024, New Hampshire’s State Legislature enacted the Expectation of Privacy Act (the “Act”). Following the Governor’s signature, the Act will take effect January 1, 2025. SCOPE - The Act defines...more
Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. This week, we discuss the Senate Judiciary Committee’s December 13, 2023 hearing...more
After observing that “Artificial intelligence offers enormous promise and great risk,” the Biden administration recently announced an Executive Order (the “Order”) setting the table for future government action in this...more
Over the last several years, State and Federal legislatures across the country have proposed and adopted laws that will transform and hinder the entire manufacturing industry. The various right-to-repair laws gaining traction...more
Introduction - The Trading Standards (Fair Trading) (Guernsey) Ordinance, 2023 (the "Trading Standards Ordinance") is due to come into force on 2 October 2023. From this date, businesses in Guernsey will be subject to...more
In this episode of his "Clearly Conspicuous" podcast series, "The CFPB's Proposal to Create a Public Registry," consumer protection attorney Anthony DiResta dives into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB)...more
Montana is the ninth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law - Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MTCDPA) on May 19, 2023, after unanimous passage through the...more
On 25 April 2023, the UK Government published the long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the “Bill”). The legislative framework that will be provided for the Digital Markets Unit (“DMU”) is arguably the...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently released an updated version of the “A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act” notice to job applicants and employees required in connection with...more
Employers should promptly update their Summary of Consumer Rights notice provided to applicants and workers before taking adverse employment action based on their background check reports, thanks to a new rule about to take...more
On March 20, the CFPB published a final rule in the Federal Register to make non-substantive technical corrections and updates to Bureau and other federal agency contact information found within Regulations B, E, F, J, V, X,...more
In recent years, a vigorous debate over consumers’ “right to repair” products they have purchased has earned the scrutiny of legislators and regulators, along with the attention of the plaintiffs’ class action bar. Until...more
The first major consumer-focused privacy regulation in the U.S., the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), came into effect on January 1st, 2020, which seems like a lifetime ago. Now it’s April 2022, and there are several...more
We previously covered the emergence of the so-called “Right to Repair” legislative movement, which seeks to allow consumers the right to modify and repair their own electronic devices, rather than relying on the manufacturer...more
Right to repair laws have come in and out of the public eye over the last decade. While many of the earliest laws covered only specific industries, such as the automotive and farm equipment industries, many states are looking...more
• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued an interim final rule requiring employers to update the summary of rights form given to applicants and employees in conjunction with a background check by a...more
On September 12, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interim final rule updating two model disclosure forms to reflect changes made to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) by the Economic Growth,...more
There is a little-known provision from a new federal law that will most likely impact your hiring practices and your standard hiring documents—and it kicked in last Friday. As of September 21, all employers must update their...more
On September 12, 2018, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (“CFPB”) announced an interim final rule (“Rule”) to be effective September 21, 2018, that will update two model disclosure forms used when conducting...more
Do you use a third party service to conduct background checks on job applicants or employees? If yes, then you should take note of new forms which employers are required to use for this purpose, effective January 1, 2013. ...more