The CFPB has extended the comment period for its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on data brokers until April 2, 2025; the comment period had been slated to expire on March 3, 2025 The bureau said it was ...

Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data. The Consumer Financial ...

Recently, the heads of the House Financial Services Committee and a group of Democratic senators submitted competing comment letters in response to the CFPB’s August advanced notice of proposed ...

Compared with President Trump’s many attacks on science so far in his second term, his affront to climate science feels like a mere flesh wound at the moment. Delaying cancer research, depriving HIV ...

Springdale Council has passed a public comment policy that sets new rules for potential speakers at borough meetings. The policy allows only residents and taxpayers of Springdale to take the podium.

Momentum at the state and federal levels has been building toward regulating how social media companies handle minors’ data and design their products for young people. But will that momentum continue ...

The Butterfly Effect is the chaos-theory idea that the flapping of an insect’s tiny wings can influence massive weather events far removed from it in distance and time. It may overstate the importance ...

Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But good luck finding them. More than 30 of the companies, which collect and sell consumers’ ...