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  • Posts by Brandy  Bruyere, NCCO
    Posts by Brandy Bruyere, NCCO
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    Brandy Bruyere counsels financial institutions, and in particular credit unions, on consumer financial services laws, regulations, guidance and public policies. Her practice includes advice on Truth in Lending Act/Regulation ...

Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) took a significant step forward in enhancing consumer control over private financial data when it launched a rulemaking process under Section 1033 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Section 1033”). Section 1033 requires the CFPB to implement a rule to allow consumers to access their financial information. Currently, there is no duty under Section 1033 to maintain or keep any information about a consumer. The CFPB has yet to adopt a rule relating to data access, despite its authority to do so.

The DOJ recently published guidance regarding website accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This guidance reiterated the DOJ’s longstanding position that websites of businesses open to the public (defined as “places of public accommodations” under Title III of the ADA) are required to be accessible to people with disabilities and provided some non-binding indicators of what it means for a website to be accessible. 

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