Police step up lobbying as regulator mulls reining in investigator access to sensitive data
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on a proposed rule to rein in data brokers that could make it harder for law enforcement to access personal data.
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“NAPO’s goal in the meeting was to ensure that the proposed rules protect not only officer’s private information from being sold and made public, but also safeguard law enforcement’s access to certain publicly available data that is vital to aiding victims and preventing and solving crimes,” the group said in a newsletter published last month.

Read: We want to look at your private data but not ours.

What a jackass.

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