CFPB ANNOUNCES PLAN TO PAY WHISTLEBLOWERS
- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday announced a number of new initiatives, including asking Congress to give the agency more power to reward whistleblowers and launching a program to allow companies to request advisory opinions to help codify how to address specific issues.
PLAINTIFF FILES PETITION FOR EN BANC HEARING IN TCPA CASE
- The plaintiff in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case has filed a petition to have the entire Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals hear arguments in its case, after a panel from the Seventh Circuit last month affirmed a lower court’s ruling that technology that does not have the capacity to generate random or sequential numbers does not meet the definition of an automated telephone dialing system under the TCPA. For the analogies alone, the petition from the plaintiff is worth the read.
BILL INTRODUCED IN HOUSE TO CHANGE CFPB LEADERSHIP TO MULTI-MEMBER COMMISSION
- A bill has been introduced in Congress to change the leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to a five-member bipartisan commission from its current form where it is helmed by a single director.
FCC ANNOUNCES PLAN TO MANDATE STIR/SHAKEN IMPLEMENTATION
- Telecom carriers are going to get another 15 months in which to implement caller ID authentication under the STIR/SHAKEN protocols under a proposal that was released Friday by the Federal Communications Commission.
READ WHAT THE EXPERTS THINK ABOUT TRENDING COMPLIANCE ISSUES
- Click here to read this week’s Compliance Digest. You’ll get insights and opinions from seven different compliance experts — Joann Needleman, Vinetta Orcutt, Michael Klutho, Ethan Ostroff, Kelly Knepper-Stephens, Brent Yarborough, and Mitch Williamson — discussing the impact of recent court cases and legislative updates. You’re not going to get that kind of varied perspective anywhere else. The Compliance Digest is sponsored by The Bedard Law Group.
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