CFPB to publish a "statement" requiring lenders to consider applicants' immigration status when engaging in certain required "ability-to-repay" determinations.

#lawfedi #consumerprotection #CFPB

https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-11447/statement-on-ability-to-repay-and-immigration-status

⭐ Notice: You have until June 28, 2026 to close your #eBay account.

eBay will impose mandatory arbitration on consumers.

Your only option, according to eBay, is to "... stop using our services."

It's time to close the account.

🧐 Arbitration was created for parties of equal bargaining power. Instead, it is used by bad actors to destroy those limited protections to which consumers are entitled. Bad actors do this because they are afraid that they cannot compete fairly.

Yes, this is not a sexy story -- but the coercive use of #arbitration is harmful and costly to you and yours.

#law #consumer #capitalism #tech #CFPB

The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no. – The Markup - https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/05/27/opt-out-dark-patterns
-@themarkup

#HIPAA #privacy #FTC #CFPB #healthcare

Lawsuit to keep the "disparate impact" regulations in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in place on the grounds that the CFPB violated the Administrative Procedures Act and that Russell Vought is not properly serving at the director of the CFPB.

#lawfedi #cfpb #consumerprotection
https://nationalfairhousing.org/nfha-sues-cfpb-ecoa-rule-change/

Rohit chopra to head newly created California Business and Consumer Services Agency.

#lawfedi #consumerprotection #CFPB
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/newsom-appoints-rohit-chopra-california-consumer-agency-00917844

A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming #DOGE. Now She’s Running for #Congress

#AlexisGoldstein , a former #ConsumerFinancialProtectionBureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
#election #vote #privacy #security #cfpb

https://www.wired.com/story/a-federal-worker-was-fired-for-filming-doge-now-shes-running-for-congress/

Lawmakers Demand Answers About Growing Number of Unfixed Mistakes on #CreditReports

found that 2 of the 3 major #creditBureaus — #TransUnion & #Experian — had substantially scaled back how often they provided relief to complaints filed through the #ConsumerFinancialProtectionBureau. The decline in relief coincided with the #Trump admin’s attempts to conduct mass #layoffs at the #CFPB & roll back much of its #oversight of the #financial sector.
#maga #privacy #finance

https://www.propublica.org/article/credit-report-mistakes-lawmakers-letter

Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative and share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us

New rules for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) mean we now need legislation that specifically requires the performance of disparate impact analysis to seek out examples of lending discrimination.

I want you to require the CFPB to conduct regular examinations of the algorithms, zip code filters, and loan approval rates of banks and other lending institutions to see how these approvals break out along racial and gender lines.

This used to be the actual job of the #CFPB, but this Republican Administration just stripped disparate impact analysis from the Equal Opportunity Credit Act. Under the new rules, lending discrimination would only be considered to exist done deliberately and documented, like saying "no, because she's a woman" or "no, because he lives in a poor neighborhood" on the application.

Banks and lenders were held accountable if their policies disproportionately harmed women, people of color, or low-income borrowers. That's how the CFPB caught banks redlining and locking entire communities out of homeownership and credit.

The CFPB is abandoning its legislatively mandated mission to ensure credit markets are fair and free of discrimination and I need you to fix this. I need you to codify the examination of potential lending discrimination into law in ways that protect all Americans.
#Resist #ResistOfTheDay