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Recent developments in the world of crypto have come at a rapid pace to open 2025 not only signaling but, in some instances, explicitly declaring the Trump Administration’s intent to significantly relax or eliminate regulation and enforcement in the crypto markets.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has extended the public comment period for its proposed rule on data broker activities under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Initially set to close on March 3, 2025, the deadline has now been pushed to April 2, 2025, allowing more time for stakeholders to review and submit their feedback, according to a Federal Register notice.

Comprehensive state privacy laws often task a state regulator to promulgate accompanying regulations that clarify the law’s requirements and to enforce the law by providing further guidance through its enforcement actions. Most state privacy laws empower a state’s office of the attorney general with rulemaking and enforcement authority, though California is a different story. The California Consumer Privacy Act created the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), seeding sole rulemaking authority to the agency but splitting enforcement power between the state attorney general and the agency.

Discovery disputes are a big part of TCPA cases and, practically speaking, it can be exceptionally difficult for defendants to produce all documents requested by TCPA plaintiffs… for several reasons. Requests for production and interrogatories tend to be worded as broadly as possible (generally to seek class information). Then, even with discovery requests that are agreed upon by the parties, the practical difficulty of obtaining and producing the requested material can range from difficult to nearly impossible.

On February 27, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) successfully obtained a temporary restraining order against Blackrock Services, Inc. and its associated entities and individuals. The court order aims to halt the defendants’ alleged deceptive and abusive debt collection practices.