September 19, 2024
CFPB Aims to Apply Privacy Protections to Data Brokers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will soon propose a rule that would apply privacy protections to data brokers, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said Thursday (Sept. 19). In remarks prepared...
August 18, 2024
Social Security Number Hack May Produce New Fraud Vector
Earlier this year, hackers stole the data of 2.9 billion people from a broker. Now, that breach threatens to usher in a wave of identity fraud and other crimes, Teresa...
October 19, 2023
Keeping Up with the Alchemists – Regulating Data Brokers in...
Keeping the digital economy’s modern-day alchemists, the data brokers, accountable needs a reset in the regulatory landscape which was not developed with such business models in mind. Manipulation, discrimination and...
December 20, 2022
How Can Competition Policy And Privacy Protection Policy Interact?
While some initially argued that privacy was distinct and independent from competition enforcement, market realities and digitization have since then forced regulators to reflect upon how the two policies can...
September 27, 2022
Employment Verification Startup Urges FTC to Probe Payroll Data Brokers
Silicon Valley employment verification startup is urging the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to open an investigation into alleged anti-competitive and anti-consumer practices by some of the biggest providers of...
August 16, 2022
SEC Charges 3 in Connection With 2017 Equifax Data Breach
Three individuals have been charged with illegally tipping and trading in the securities of Equifax before its public announcement of a big cyber intrusion and data breach from 2017, the...
May 26, 2022
Privacy in a Technological Age
In our data-driven society, privacy as a fundamental right should be recognized and upheld. We must adopt strong legal and technological protections that preserve our autonomy. Legally speaking we must...
April 21, 2022
Can the FTC Promulgate Effective Privacy Rules?
In the absence of federal privacy legislation, the FTC is widely expected to commence a rulemaking to “curb lax security practices, limit privacy abuses, and ensure that algorithmic decision-making does...
February 06, 2022
Equifax Finalizes Breach Settlement, to Start Fulfilling Claims
Equifax has reached a settlement over its data breach, according to an update put out by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The settlement was finalized in January 2022 and the...