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Affirming the lower court's summary judgment for the FTC, the DC Court of Appeals has upheld the FTC's privacy regulations promulgated to implement the privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (the GBLA). [Trans Union v. FTC, D.C. Cir No. 01-5202 (July 16, 2002).]
Trans Union filed suit in the district court contending that the FTC's regulations unlawfully restrict a credit reporting agency's (CRA's) ability to disclose and reuse certain consumer information. In its pleadings, Trans Union alleged that (1) a CRA is not a "financial institution" and not subject to the FTC's rulemaking authority under the GLBA; (2) the FTC's regulation identifying "personally …