EPIC Denounces Administration’s Assault on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

EPIC Joins Over 35 Organizations to Defend Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Complaint System

June 25, 2025

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EPIC Condemns CFPB’s Withdrawal of Proposed Rules to Rein in Data Brokers

May 14, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is withdrawing a proposal to crack down on the data brokers that profit from buying and selling our most sensitive personal information at industrial scale.

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EPIC Condemns Withdrawal of CFPB Safeguards on Privacy, Fairness, Transparency, and Equity in Financial Markets

May 9, 2025

This morning, the Trump Administration continued its assault against consumers by withdrawing nearly 70 key guidance documents previously issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to protect the public.

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EPIC Joins NCLC to Urge the CFPB to Protect Consumer Financial Privacy

April 16, 2025

EPIC joined the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) in a comment responding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s request for information about consumer financial privacy.

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EPIC, NCL, CFA, and Others Urge CFPB to Rein in Harmful Data Broker Practices

April 2, 2025

In a comment filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today, EPIC, the National Consumers League (NCL), and Consumer Federation of America (CFA) urged the CFPB to finalize rules that would protect consumers from harm caused by data brokers.

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Comments of EPIC, NCL, and CFA on the Protecting Americans from Harmful Data Broker Practices Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

April 2, 2025

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PRESS RELEASE: EPIC and Americans for Financial Reform Oppose Attempt to Strip Away Payment App Protections

March 10, 2025

EPIC and Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) oppose the Trump Administration’s recent attacks on the CFPB and efforts by Congress to overturn finalized CFPB rules that protect users of payment apps. These attacks put Americans’ privacy and financial wellbeing at risk, as well as threatening to destabilize the financial industry.

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Trump Administration’s Attacks on the CFPB Threaten Privacy, Data Security, and the Stability of the Financial Industry

March 7, 2025

Since its founding in 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a champion for consumers in the financial services industry. The Bureau has returned over $21 billion to consumers in its 14 years of operation. Yet the Trump Administration has launched a full-scale attack on the CFPB over the past month, putting the Project 2025 goal of eliminating the CFPB into action.

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Data Broker Harms to Public Officials

March 4, 2025

Data brokers build extensive dossiers of information on Americans, including law enforcement officers, judges, and other public officials.

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EPIC Denounces Administration’s Assault on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

February 13, 2025

Over the past week, the Trump administration and associates of Elon Musk have escalated their existential attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), effectively shutting down a vital federal agency that protects consumers from harmful business and personal data practices by banks and other financial companies. EPIC condemns this coordinated assault on consumers, which undermines one of the most effective champions for the public interest anywhere in government.

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