Just because you say you’re not a consumer reporting agency doesn’t mean you’re not a consumer agency, and information broker Spokeo found out the hard way as they settled with the Federal Trade Commission for $800,000 after allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act. To explain the case and what other companies can learn from it, we bring in Kelley Drye‘s Chrisopher Loeffler, author on the firm’s blog, Ad Law Access.
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