On June 2, 2014, U.S. Federal Trade Commission member Julie Brill, speaking at the European Data Protection Supervisor’s workshop on privacy, consumer protection and competition in Brussels, said that companies’ privacy protection regimes focused on limiting or stopping harmful uses of data overlook the potential damage to consumers’ privacy through the incremental accumulation of small
California Court Grants Summary Judgment to Consumer Reporting Agency
On May 29, 2014, in the matter of Karrigan v. DataX Ltd. et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Civil Action No. 3:13-cv-02995, a federal judge dismissed on summary judgment a putative class action accusing DataX Ltd. of giving credit reports to scammers who manipulated payday loan customers
CFPB Publishes New Guidance on Credit Reporting for Child Welfare Caseworkers
On May 1, 2014, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published action letters for child welfare caseworkers to send to credit bureaus if they find errors on the credit reports of the children in their care. The CFPB stated that the nearly 400,000 children in the United States foster care system often lack a permanent address,