Signage is seen at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 14, 2021.
REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsCompanies Consumer Financial Protection Bureau FollowOct 6 (Reuters) - The top U.S. agency for consumer financial protection is considering regulatory moves to help protect the public from the kind of excessive surveillance of their financial data enabled by payment structures in China, its director said on Friday.
This will involve ordering some large U.S. tech firms to provide information on their use of personal data and private currencies, Rohit Chopra, director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), said in a speech.
"It's critically important for American consumers to have stronger protections against excessive surveillance and misuse of our data," Chopra said in a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's "open banking" proposal is expected to give consumers the ability to switch service providers more easily and control how financial tech service providers collect consumer data.
Persons:
Andrew Kelly, Rohit Chopra, Chopra, Chopra's, Douglas Gillison, Chizu Nomiyama, Bill Berkrot
Organizations:
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Washington , D.C, REUTERS, Consumer Financial, U.S, U.S . Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Brookings Institution, Consumer, Thomson
Locations:
Washington ,, China, Washington