Federal consumer protection agencies likely to be curbed in a new Trump administration
Under the first Trump administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau significantly slowed its enforcement activities. It’s likely to happen again.
Lina Khan’s Replacement at FTC to Be Vetted by an Aide to Vance
An Oxford-educated antitrust lawyer who advised the first Trump White House on technology policy is helping the president-elect pick Lina Khan’s replacement.
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The CFPB in 2025: What to Expect Following the Election
2024 has been an eventful year for the CFPB. As we detailed in June, the CFPB survived its second constitutional challenge at the Supreme Court in CFSA v. CFPB, and “ [n]ewly emboldened, the CFPB’s ...
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DC Circuit doubts FTC authority to force additional privacy protections on Facebook
The appeal centered on a long-running dispute over Meta's misrepresentations that users could prevent the platform from ...