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Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

Small Business Coalition Highlights Issues for Bureau

In anticipation of hearings on how the Dodd-Frank Act will impact small businesses, the a U.S. Chamber of Commerce-led coalition of business groups provided Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner with recommendations…

Search for CFPB Director Continues

In recent blog entries we have discussed the role being played by Elizabeth Warren in standing up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, including efforts to identify a Director for the newly-formed Bureau. Those…

CFPB Launches Website

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has launched its website at ConsumerFinance.gov . The new website highlights the agency’s focus on the consumer, and provides individuals with multiple tools to share…

Outgoing Ohio Attorney General to Head CFPB Enforcement Division

Outgoing Ohio Attorney General, Richard Cordray, has been selected to lead the enforcement division of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). While serving as the Attorney General, Cordray filed…

FTC Commissioner Discusses CFPB at Privacy Conference

FTC Commissioner Julie Brill spoke about the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) during a keynote address she delivered at the International Association of Privacy Professionals Second Annual Conference…