Congress Mounts New Probe Of Agency Snooping On Consumers

Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from Regulatory Cyber Security/FISMA Focus.

From: Daily Caller

Richard Pollock, Reporter

Congress is mounting another attempt to determine if the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is complying with federal cybersecurity standards as it amasses an unprecedented amount of private data on personal consumer behavior, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

Privacy advocates are alarmed about CFPB’s accumulation of data on 991 million consumer credit card accounts and 53 million residential mortgages.

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