The Federal Trade Commission has joined the Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in filing a memorandum in support of the constitutionality of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
This issue arose in Shamara King v. General Information Services, Inc., a "consumer class action based upon Defendant’s willful violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act,… More
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
By Stacy Anderson and Gabriel M. Helmer.
Anyone required to comply with the FTC’s Disposal Rule [the text of the rule can be found here], which requires companies to take reasonable steps to dispose of information contained in consumer credit reports, should take note of a recent FTC enforcement action in federal court from the District of Nevada. On December 30, 2008, the FTC filed a complaint against Las Vegas businessman Gregory Navone alleging that he violated the Disposal Rule and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) when he discarded forty boxes of documents into a public dumpster behind an office building in Las Vegas. … More