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 ...

In the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax, it was not surprising that financial consumer complaints sent to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shot up by nearly a quarter in 2017. But ...

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 ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday the controversial public Consumer Complaint Database is here to stay. The CFPB announced that it will continue the publication of consumer ...

The Trump administration may shut down a federal database of consumer complaints about the financial-services industry. Banks think that’s a swell idea. The attorneys general of California and more ...

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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is keeping its consumer complaints database public, in a surprising move that may assuage advocates’ concerns. The agency said Wednesday that it will continue ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

In a move that reeks of party politics and lobbyist influence, the US House this week made moves to gut the funding of an online database that was to become a repository for consumer safety ...

The announcement that 23andMe is filing for bankruptcy and has put its genetic genealogy database up for sale has sent its customers into a bit of a privacy tizzy. On March 21, California Attorney ...