Our special podcast show today deals primarily with a 112-page opinion and 3-page order issued on March 28 by Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a lawsuit brought, among others, by two labor unions representing CFPB employees against Acting Director Russell Vought. The complaint alleged that Acting Director Vought and others were in the process of dismantling the CFPB through various actions taken since Rohit Chopra was fired and replaced by Acting Director Scott Bessent and then Acting Director Russell Vought.
Cisco released its 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study. The report looks at global trends in data privacy and how they affect businesses. The study gathered responses from 2,600 privacy and security experts in 12 countries. It highlights the need for strong data privacy practices to fully benefit from AI.
Digital lending is at a crossroads as financial institutions and banks grapple with modernizing their loan processes, revealing a significant divide between readiness for consumers and small businesses.
A recent PYMNTS Intelligence report, “The State of Digital Lending Readiness,” shed light on the varying degrees to which banks are equipped to handle lending in the digital age.
In a lengthy decision that highlighted the CFPB’s very public efforts to dismantle the CFPB from within, the District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for preliminary injunction designed to preserve the CFPB pending litigation on the merits with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU).
Oregon consumers submitted more than 100 privacy complaints to the state’s justice department within six months of the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) taking effect, and businesses subject to the new law need to take note. A new report, released by Attorney General Dan Rayfield on March 7, identifies the top issues driving the complaints and enforcement actions. The good news?
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