MANHATTAN (CN) – Part of a longstanding erosion of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s interim director Mick Mulvaney recently announced his intent to shut down a public ...

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U.S. consumers filed nearly 300,000 complaints last year about their dealings with banks, credit card issuers and other financial services companies. Most of those complaints were compiled and made ...

Acxiom's database has over 500 million active consumers, and average of 1,500 data points per consumer. Profits of $77.6 million in last fiscal year, with sales of $1.13 billion. Congress and privacy ...

The CFPB has announced a number of “enhancements” to its consumer complaint database. In March 2018, the CFPB issued a request for information seeking comment on potential changes to its practices for ...

WASHINGTON – Consumers have won a big victory in favor of transparency for a change. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has decided it won’t remove from public view a complaint database ...

A fight is heating up over whether millions of consumer complaints against financial institutions should be made public. And consumer advocates are deeply worried about what comes next. Every month ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will continue to publish its database of consumer complaints about financial companies, ending — for now — a battle over public access to one of the agency’s ...

In a surprise move, the United States Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced it will keep its consumer complaints database open to the public following uncertainty over whether it ...

The new owner of a consumer DNA database that has powered a revolution in forensics vowed to resist attempts by police to circumvent the site's privacy rules. Verogen, a California-based DNA analysis ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers filed nearly 300,000 complaints last year about their dealings with banks, credit card issuers and other financial services companies. Most of those complaints were ...