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IPA Joins Forces With FBI to Fight Crime in Payments

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Since then, we have also held sessions in New York and Minneapolis with the goal of forging connections between the payments community and law enforcement. They also need to know how to verify requests for information or payment. This was the fourth Field Office event in a series that started last fall in Atlanta.

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Fed To Investigate Deutsche Bank’s Role In Danske Bank Scandal

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There are no probes,” Deutsche Bank said in an emailed statement to Bloomberg, but noted it “received several requests for information from regulators and law enforcement agencies around the world.

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CFPB Uses “Mystery Shoppers” To Target Bank Lending Practices

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The CFPB interprets that as meaning they can’t seek personal information from government officials by the use of employees working undercover. Their mystery shopping sprees, they argue, are simple requests for information that would be available to the public for anyone who asked. Thus, there is no Privacy issue.

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CFPB Updates Policy For Civil Investigative Demands

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. “The new policy takes into account recent court decisions about notifications of purpose, and is consistent with a 2017 report by the Bureau’s Office of Inspector General that emphasized the importance of updating Office of Enforcement policies to reflect such developments,” the CFPB explained in a press release.

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Lawmakers Want Information On Amazon’s Facial Recognition Tech

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Democratic Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri are demanding answers from Amazon as to how its facial recognition technology dubbed Rekognition is being used by law enforcement agencies around the country. Two police departments in those states use the technology.

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Microsoft Calls For Regulation Of Facial Recognition Tech

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The news comes as Democratic Representatives Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri were demanding answers from Amazon as to how its facial recognition technology, dubbed Rekognition , is being used by law enforcement around the country. Two police departments in those states use the technology.