CDT Comments to CFPB on Personal Financial Data Rights
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) submitted these comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in support of the agency’s efforts to increase consumer financial data access and portability, which will allow consumers to share historical financial data with new financial institutions. While the proposal stands to benefit competition, it may also pose risks to privacy.
In particular, CDT argued that the CFPB should ensure that people can consent to data sharing and choose which data they want to share; that the agency should require financial institutions to minimize the data they collect and retain; that any data shared should be accurate; and that screen-scraping (as a method of collecting data to be shared) should be avoided.
CDT and Partners Urge Passage of the California Location Privacy Act of 2025 (AB 322)
Location data is particularly sensitive, and when collected across time it can reveal a broad range of intrusive insights such as medical conditions, sexual orientation, political activities, and religious beliefs.
CDT and Allies Urge FCC Not to Violate Privacy of Cell Phone Buyers
CDT and EPIC led a coalition of 15 organizations in urging the FCC not to require phone companies to collect government IDs, physical addresses, and alternate phone numbers from every phone subscriber in the country.
As Brussels starts emptying for the summer, the risks of frontier AI models continue to capture the attention of policymakers as a key chapter of the AI Act becomes enforceable, and disclosure rules around the use of AI systems and AI-generated content are further clarified.
