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Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report - Volume 7, Issue 36

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Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: Creepy Apps: FTC Shuts Down Stalkerware Company...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Eleventh Circuit Holds Commonplace Use of Letter Vendors May Violate FDCPA and Further Expands Consumer Standing in Huntstein v....

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To start with the headline, on April 21, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a debt collector sending personal identifying information to dunning letter vendors states a claim under the Fair Debt Collection...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Quest Diagnostics Reports Data Breach Affecting 11.9M Patients in Securities Filing

Another day in the healthc are industry, another big data breach. This week, Quest Diagnostics announced in a security filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that a collection agency vendor that it uses for...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

"Phantom" Debt Collectors Actually Sued by FTC, Banned From Business

Why it matters - The operators of a scam that processed more than $5.2 million in payments from consumers for payday loans that were not owed to the operators are now banned from the debt collection business, the...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Rising Conflict Among Federal Courts – Whether an Account Number Visible on a Debt Collection Envelope Violates the FDCPA

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Section 1692f(8) of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (“FDCPA”) prohibits the use of any language or symbol, other than the debt collector’s address, on any envelope when communicating with a consumer by mail. The...more

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Indecent Exposure: FTC Obtains Injunctions Against Debt Brokers for Improperly Published Consumer Information

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On November 12, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the District Court for the District of Columbia had entered preliminary injunctions against two debt sellers which, together, had improperly posted personal...more

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