Berkeley Law students and CAPS members Brenna Kearns (3L), Snehee Khandeshi (2L), and Tal Solovey (1L) submitted a public comment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact standard. In it, the students argued that the HUD must not allow housing providers, lenders, insurers and a host of other actors to evade liability for the discriminatory effects of their policies by hiding behind algorithmic models and declining to collect data.
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Second-year Berkeley Law students and CAPS members Julia Butts, Samson Lim, and Daniel Twomey submitted a public comment on Regulation F (Debt Collection Practices) to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In it, the students proposed three modifications to the proposed rules to protect debtors from abuse. First, the rules need to be modified to protect consumers from phishing and smishing scams. Second, the rules should require individuals to consent before receiving electronic messaging from debt collectors. Third, the rules should take concrete steps to ensure that low English proficiency consumers are informed of their rights in a language-appropriate manner.
CAPS_Public_Comment_on_CFPB_Debt_Collection_PracticesFirst-year Berkeley Law students and CAPS members Angela Moon, Ari Chivukula, and Marta Studnicka submitted a comment to the Federal Trade Commission on Competition and Consumer Protection. In it, the students argued that the U.S. must maintain the market it built by properly policing: (1) the type and sensitivity of data companies can collect and transfer; (2) how the data can be used; (3) how the data can be secured; and (4) how consumers are notified of data collection and use.
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First-year Berkeley Law students and CAPS members Vivek Banerjee and Dan Noel submitted a public comment on behalf of CAPS to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on the implementation of the 2017 “Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans” Rule (the “Final Rule”). The students provided four reasons to support implementation. First, the Final Rule fulfills the Bureau’s statutory mandate under the Dodd-Frank Act to “identify and prevent unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices.” Second, the Final Rule shifts the burden to lenders to assess a consumer’s ability to repay, in acknowledgment of the limited choices indebted consumers actually have. Third, the Final Rule only constrains products identified by the Bureau as unfair and abusive, leaving space for lenders to innovate new ways of meeting consumer needs. And fourth, the Final Rule sufficiently seeks to minimize market impact without compromising the Bureau’s core mission of consumer protection.
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First-year Berkeley Law students and CAPS members Ted Lee, Samson Lim, and Oscar Sarabia Roman have submitted a public comment on behalf of CAPS and in conjunction with the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice. The FCC and NorthStar Alarm Systems, LLC sought clarification that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (47 U.S.C. § 227) did not prohibit the use of soundboard technology (i.e., the use of “prerecorded message” by live telemarketers). The students argued that the TCPA prohibits the use of the technology because it falls squarely under the Act’s ban on the use of “artificial or prerecorded voice.” The comment can be found here.
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