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Data privacy will move up US regulatory agenda

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UNITED STATES

The FCC approved new rules on October 27 governing how ISPs can use and distribute customers’ personal information to outside entities. These rules shift much of the power over…

US shutdown could hurt consumer finance protections

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UNITED STATES

Appropriations bills for fiscal year 2016 have come attached with what the White House has called "ideological policy riders", some of which target the Consumer Financial…

Two US cases could upend work and politics environment

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UNITED STATES

Employment and trade union law.

Mexico energy dispute will not break USMCA

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MEXICO

The talks (intended to avoid arbitration) are unlikely either to promote major shifts in Mexico’s position or to rupture the USMCA. They will conclude next month at the latest, 75…

US moves on medical bills likely post November

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UNITED STATES

Measures to curtail the practice nationwide were until recently pending in Congress. However, these have been shelved, leaving the states to address the problem.

Lawsuits raise cost and existential risks for US tech

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UNITED STATES

Plaintiffs range from users, customers, app developers, investors, competitors, employees (current and former), law enforcement and tax agencies. They are seeking redress for…

US CFPB faces growing restrictions

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UNITED STATES

The majority ruled that this violated the separation of powers. However, the Court decided not to extend this ruling to strike down the rest of the Dodd-Frank statute that created…

Quick end to Canada rail strike still leaves problems

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CANADA

The quick return to work forestalls direct government intervention but also underlines how vulnerable the Canadian economy is to transport disruption. Both the agricultural and…

Tussles loom over reforming the US Postal Service

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UNITED STATES

The administration’s 2021 fiscal year (October 1-September 30) budget request dismisses the preferred solution of the postmaster general and Congress Democrats, for taxpayers to…

#MeToo will sustain demands for US corporate diversity

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US

That turned the eleven-year-old MeToo movement into a central pillar of a broader drive in the United States to address gender, race and social inequality. Since then, the…