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Spokeo In Violation of Federal Privacy Laws According to New CDT Complaint Filed With FTC

This week, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) submitted a complaint (.pdf) to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that the data broker website Spokeo was violating federal financial privacy law by not taking adequate safeguards to protect consumers.  Spokeo is a website that bills itself as a search engine that allows users the ability to look up “people-related information from phone books,… More