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BREACHED AGENCY FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION
- The collection agency that was involved in a data breach that compromised the personal and financial information of more than 20 million individuals has filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it could not afford the expenses of dealing with the breach’s fallout.
JUDGE RULES CASE INVOLVING POTENTIAL THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE CAN CONTINUE
- A District Court judge in Alabama has partially dismissed a plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and partially granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the third-party disclosure provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act during a conversation with the plaintiff’s mother.
NEW ANTI-ROBOCALL BILL, CLEVERLY NAMED, OFFICIALLY INTRODUCED IN SENATE
- Following up on a report last week, a bill has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-Nev.] that would criminalize robocalls, with the intention of putting perpetrators behind bars.
PLEASE READ THI…ZZZ
- As consumers, we are inundated with agreements. Visiting websites, signing up for new services, or often just updates to things we have bought or signed up for in the past, we are asked to agree to a lot of different provisions. But who takes the time to read all of that? Not even law professors who specialize in consumer law, according to one informal survey.
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The Daily Digest is sponsored by Microbilt. Designed to help debt collection professionals, MicroBilt’s platform of recovery and skip tracing tools provide quick, convenient, and current data that help you prioritize and successfully track people down and collect. Keep your skip tracing and debt recovery efficient and effective! Contact us to find out about our 90 Day Try Us Program. Call 800-884-4397 or visit www.microbilt.com.