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By Brendan Bordelon
The Daily Caller
June 27, 2013
A secretive data collection program run by the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau allows private contractors
access to millions of Americans’ personal financial
information, according to a government accountability
group.
The information may also be shared with other federal
agencies.
Documents obtained by Washington-based Judicial Watch
through the Freedom of Information Act illustrate the
cost and scope of the program, which business groups and
some Republican lawmakers have assailed as invasive and
potentially illegal.
The Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported how
the CFPB compelled banks to comply with the program by
making successful passage of routine inspections
conditional on supplying massive amounts of their
customers’ financial information. The new documents shed
light on what happens to that data once banks have turned
it over.
Multiple credit reporting agencies . . .
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https://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/obama-administration-paid-contractors- millions-to-snoop-through-americans-financial-data/
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