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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Regulators Want more Details of Payment Systems

To be expected, how can the details of this be used to improve security?

Regulators demand more info about tech payment systems  in TheVerge

Query orders sent out to Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Paypal, and Square

By Russell Brandom

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a series of information-gathering orders on the business practices of major digital payments systems. Orders were issued to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Square, the bureau said in an announcement on Thursday morning. Chinese pay systems operated by WeChat and AliPay will also be studied but are not subject to any CFBP orders.

Issued as part of the CFPB’s investigative authority, the orders are not an indication of specific wrongdoing, but they suggest the CFBP will be taking a more active role in regulating tech companies’ consumer products in the future. In particular, they are meant to root out any data collection or anti-competitive conduct that may have not yet come to light.

The companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment. ... ' 

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