by Eric J. Ellman | Jul 7, 2025
In July 2025, the GAO issued a report, Rental Housing: Use and Federal Oversight of Property Technology (GAO-25-107196). The report was conducted at the request of members of Congress who “raised questions about the use of property technology tools in the rental...
by Eric J. Ellman | Apr 1, 2024
In March 2024, the CFPB posted a blog (Seth Frotman) saying businesses harvest information on people’s financial status or record of paying bills and provide that information to consumer reporting companies. Consumer reporting companies then sell this data to...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jul 17, 2023
In July 2023, Didier Reynders, the Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Protection of the European Commission, and Rohit Chopra, Director of the United States Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced the start of an informal dialogue between the European...
by Eric J. Ellman | Feb 1, 2023
In January 2023, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced a request for comment “on how companies’ data practices may impose outsized harm on marginalized or underserved communities.” The press release adds that The ways in which...
