Data privacy

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has received more than 11,000 comment letters on its proposal on personal financial data rights, but banks say the agency should ensure that more fintech partners take on their fair share of the rule's compliance burden.

The data aggregator announced a product this week that allows banks to build data privacy portals, where consumers can see who has access to their account data.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said a company doesn't need to experience a data breach for the agency to consider taking action.

The White House is calling on the Department of Justice and federal regulators to give bank deals more scrutiny as part of a broader executive order meant to encourage competition across the U.S. economy.

How consumer attitudes toward privacy threaten to overturn long-standing industry assumptions about customer data and personalization.

Emerging consumer attitudes toward privacy threaten to overturn long-standing industry assumptions about customer data and personalization.

As it attempts to craft policy on access to consumers’ financial account information, the agency is wading into a battle between those who want data to flow more freely and those who prioritize security.

The rulemaking is expected to draw enormous interest from both banks and third-party fintech providers.

Financial institutions have been monitoring workers' productivity at home with tracking software and webcams. Now they're mulling whether to mandate contact-tracing apps, COVID-19 testing and other practices that could raise further privacy issues.

The California Consumer Privacy Act is here, but many mortgage lenders still don't know what that means for them.