NEWS AND VIEWS

Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion Support U.S. Consumers with Permanent Extension of Free Weekly Credit Reports
- September 18, 2023
- News
ATLANTA & COSTA MESA, Calif. & CHICAGO–The three Nationwide Credit Reporting Agencies (NCRAs) – Equifax® (NYSE:EFX), Experian (LON:EXPN) and TransUnion (NYSE:TRU)...
Consumer Data Industry Association: California Assembly Passage of ‘Delete Act’ Sets Severely Flawed Example for Other States to Follow
- September 13, 2023
- NewsPress Releases and Statements
(Washington, DC) – Dan Smith, president and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA), made the following statement today about...
Consumer Data Industry Association Launches Campaign to Highlight How California’s “Delete Act” Could Severely Harm Consumers
- September 5, 2023
- NewsPress Releases and Statements
Mobile billboard truck, online ads, educational website show unintended consequences of mass deletion of consumer data (Sacramento, CA) The Consumer Data...

Eric Ellman
January 12, 2023
We reported before on screen scraping litigation in federal court in South Carolina where the ACLU and the NAACP filed a...

Eric Ellman
April 20, 2022
In March 2022, as noted in a press release, “[t]he American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and the NAACP...

Eric Ellman
April 5, 2022
On April 3, 2022, six people were killed and 12 others injured in a tragic mass shooting in Sacramento, California. A...

Eric Ellman
March 15, 2022
The Consumer Data Industry Association has long advocated for greater uniformity, standardization, centralization, and automation of court records across the U.S....

Eric Ellman
March 10, 2022
Few crimes are worse than literally stealing food from families in need, but that’s what happened in Minnesota in 2021 because...

Eric Ellman
January 7, 2022
Even though Kirk Parker, Jr., has an “extensive criminal record,” he was still hired in 2019 by the Baltimore City’s Department...

Eric Ellman
November 18, 2021
A long-running complaint of many users of the PACER system may finally be reaching an end. The Public Access to Court...

Eric Ellman
October 5, 2021
On the last day of the 2021 legislative session, a bill that would have limited employers’ and landlords’ access to criminal...

Eric Ellman
July 13, 2021
In July 2021, several consumer groups, led by the ACLU, wrote a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge offering “proposals for...

Eric Ellman
May 21, 2021
“’I just worry that we are over-promising something to millions of people — that there’s going to be a magic wand...