The FTC recently announced a “phantom debt broker” settlement. Phantom debt is debt that has been fabricated and then treated as if it was real debt that could be collected from consumers. Th...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2019/07/phantom-debt-brokering-an-emerging-form-of-identity-theft/
Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, is testifying before the US Senate Banking Committee today on the topic of privacy, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, data brokers, and predictive analytics. “I ...
The World Privacy Forum joined the US PIRG, the National Consumer Law Center and other signatories in a joint letter to the US Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Burea...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2015/10/wpf-joins-uspirg-and-nclc-in-breach-letter-to-ftc-cfpb/
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking on data, lending, and civil rights at the Georgetown University Law Center this Wednesday. She will be discussing research from her Scoring of Am...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2015/04/data-lending-and-civil-rights/
Video of Congressional Testimony on data brokers. Pam Dixon gave this testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee on December 18, 2013 at a hearing dedicated to shedding light on data broker i...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2014/01/congressional-testimony-recap-on-c-span/
01/30/2012 Consumer financial protection -- WPF filed comments with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today asking it to make its consumer complaints database available for research.
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2012/01/blog-wpf-asks-cfpb-to-keep-data-open/
WPF Comments on the FTC Privacy Report -- The World Privacy Forum filed comments with the FTC in response to its preliminary staff report, Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2011/02/blog-wpf-responds-to-ftcs-report-on-privacy/
The World Privacy Forum filed comments today criticizing the SEC proposed regulations that would release an unprecedented amount of financial details about individual borrowers through the EDGAR ...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2010/08/comments-wpf-files-comments-on-deeply-flawed-sec-plan-2/
The World Privacy Forum filed comments last week for the FTC Privacy Roundtables, the first of which will be held December 7, 2009. The WPF comments urged the FTC to consider the Fair Credit Repo...
Medical privacy -- Some recent articles about the sale of patients' prescription histories to insurance companies have raised many consumer questions about this practice. Ingenix and Milliman -- ...