Tech experts Trump fired from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau say consumers at risk
The sudden halt to CFPB's works leaves much of consumer finance, from mortgage companies to payment apps, unsupervised.
CFPB Agrees to Pause Rumored Workforce Layoffs, Data Purge (1)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees got at least a two-week reprieve from an expected culling of the workforce ...
Judge Halts CFPB Action After Alleged Plans to Delete Database
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay the deletion of data after the agency’s ...
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Judge blocks mass layoffs at consumer protection agency targeted by Trump
In a court filing Friday, the agency’s former chief technologist, Erie Meyer, warned of an “imminent risk that twelve years’ of critical CFPB records, which belong to the public, will be ...
US consumer watchdog broadens layoffs beyond probationary staff, sources say
A new category of employees at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received termination notices on Thursday, ...
The technology team at financial regulator CFPB has been gutted
Around 20 technologists at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were fired on Thursday evening, gutting a team that ...
Trump administration fires thousands of federal workers
The Trump administration moved swiftly to lay off thousands of government employees in at least seven agencies Thursday, initiating a new and more aggressive phase of its push to shrink the federal ...
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Another day, another activist judge: Trump blocked from firing CFPB employees
An Obama judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from firing Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) employees.
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Judge Orders Freeze on Firing Consumer Bureau’s Staff and Deleting Its Data
Erie Meyer, the agency’s former chief technologist, posted on social media. “They were looking into big tech. Trump just fired them. All of them.” In court papers filed Friday morning ...