On Tuesday morning, as the CFPB's Personal Financial Data Rights rule became final, Director Rohit Chopra spoke to members of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to lay out the vision and reasoning of the new rule and how it will empower individuals in a way that could lead to "a more open and decentralized market for financial services."
In comments to the audience, Chopra said, "By allowing consumers to permission their personal financial data, people can more easily sign up, switch accounts and take their financial history with them. But, much of the data sharing that does take place today uses unsafe methods – like third parties using consumer credentials to scrape vast amounts of data from online banking interfaces."
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