The CFPB wants workers at big technology firms to report practices that could harm consumers, as part of the agency’s push to oversee the use of artificial intelligence in lending and other financial markets.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Wednesday that it has redesigned its whistleblower webpage with tech workers in mind, and plans to make it easier for tech workers to send encrypted emails to the bureau.
The bureau is particularly interested in how mortgage lending algorithms are designed and used, amid concerns that they could further entrench discrimination, Erie Meyer, the CFPB’s chief technologist, said in a ...
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