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January

27
2025
Compliance

Reminder: FCC’s One-to-One TCPA Consent Rule Takes Effect January 27

Are you ready? On January 27, 2025, the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Oneto-One Consent Rule goes into effect, which could raise enforcement and litigation risks. If this applies to your business, hopefully your first reaction isn’t “what One-to-One Consent Rule?”

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January

27
2025
Industry News

Change Healthcare Breach Impacted 190 Million Americans

The biggest medical-related data breach in U.S. history was even larger than first estimated.

The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare business last year impacted around 190 million people, almost double past estimates, TechCrunch reported Friday (Jan. 24).

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January

27
2025
Industry News

Eleventh Circuit Vacates FCC’s One-to-One Consent Rule; FCC Issues Stay

In a previous post, we discussed the oral arguments held on December 18, 2024, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in the case of Insurance Marketing Coalition Limited (IMC) v. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The case challenged the FCC’s December 2023 order under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), which aimed to reduce unwanted robocalls and texts by closing the “lead generator loophole” and requiring “one-to-one consent” for telemarketing communications. The new rule was set to take effect on January 27, 2025. However, during oral arguments, the Eleventh Circuit judges expressed skepticism about the FCC’s justification for its new rule.

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January

27
2025
Industry News

TransUnion subsidiary Argus Information and Advisory Services agrees not to seek business with CFPB for three years

Argus Information and Advisory Services, a subsidiary of TransUnion, has agreed that it will not seek any government contracts with the CFPB for three years, following action by several government agencies.

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January

27
2025
Trends

CFPB Report Finds Cash-Out Mortgage Refinance Borrowers Improve Credit Scores

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a report about financial outcomes for cash-out refinance mortgage borrowers. Cash-out borrowers had an initial sharp improvement in credit scores, followed by a gradually worsening of their scores. Scores in general, however, stayed above their pre-refinance levels. The report confirms that borrowers often do use the money from a cash-out refinance to pay down other debts, particularly credit card and auto loan debt. The report looked at borrowers between 2014 and 2021.

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