Lawmakers Grill CFPB Official Over Personally Identifiable Information
July 15, 2013
Republican members of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit closely questioned Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Deputy Director Steven Antonakes last week over the degree to which the CFPB is collecting personally identifiable information from consumers. Many of the GOP subcommittee members were quick to invoke recent scandals involving the IRS targeting of conservative groups and National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden as further evidence of the need to...