APPEALS COURT AFFIRMS RULING FOR DEFENSE IN FCRA CLASS ACTION The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in a Fair Credit Reporting Act class action, determining that the defendant’s decision to access the plaintiff’s credit report in order to obtain a mailing address …

Iowa has become the latest state to pass its own privacy legislation, while at the same time the state of Colorado has finalized the rules for its Privacy Act, which is is scheduled to go into effect on July 1. In Iowa, both houses of the state legislature have passed …

The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling in a Fair Credit Reporting Act class action, determining that the defendant’s decision to access the plaintiff’s credit report in order to obtain a mailing address so it could attempt to collect on a debt was …