by Jeff Sovern Here. Eleven proposed bills this time. It creates an interesting contrast with the just issued CFPB's Supervisory Highlights report, which reports, for example, that the CFPB found that one collection firm violated debt collection laws approximately 17,000 times and a creditor has been selling debts on which consumers were no longer liable. […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
Here. A lot of it is about Omri Ben-Shahar's and Carl Schneider's new book, More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure. I'm still reading the book's introduction, but so far it looks very good.
Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley has written How the Fair Credit Reporting Act Regulates Big Data for the Future of Privacy Forum Workshop on Big Data and Privacy: Making Ends Meet, 2013. Here is the abstract: This short essay, prepared for the Future of Privacy Forum's Big Data and Privacy: Making Ends Meet event in […]
Stephen J. Ware of Kansas has written A 20th Century Debate About Imprisonment for Debt. Here's the abstract: In the early twentieth century, Parliament debated whether to abolish imprisonment for debt. Parliament’s Select Committee on Debtors (Imprisonment) of 1909 heard testimony from witnesses and issued a report recommending the continuation of imprisonment for debt. This […]
by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of Elizabeth Warren's new book, A Fighting Chance (you can read and listen to a short excerpt here). Over at PrawfsBlawg, Jennifer Bard wrote that law professors should read the book. I would go much further: anyone who cares about our country should read (or […]
Daniel J. Solove of George Washington and Woodrow Hartzog of Samford's Cumberland Law School and Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society have written The FTC and Privacy and Security Duties for the Cloud, 13 BNA Privacy & Security Law Report 577 (2014). Here's the abstract: Increasingly, companies, hospitals, schools, and other organizations are […]
Here. And here is a video of the event described in the article.
by Jeff Sovern The Dodd-Frank Act, in section 1031, authorizes the CFPB to bring actions to prevent abusive, deceptive, and unfair practices. Section 1042 gives states the power to enforce Dodd-Frank provisions as well. Accordingly, as reported here, here, and here, on Wednesday New York’s Department of Financial Services, led by Ben Lawsky, brought what has been […]
The Community Affairs Officers of the Federal Reserve System invite paper submissions for the ninth biennial Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference on April 2-3, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference is a unique event that aims to bridge the gap between research, policy and practice on key […]