Google is cracking down on predatory loan apps by cutting off their access to “sensitive” data including debtors’ contacts, photos, and location, after growing criticism that unscrupulous lenders are tapping the contents of borrowers’ smartphones for harassment and blackmail.
On March 15, Judge Eve M. Reilly of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, dismissed a class action complaint based solely on the allegation that a collection letter was sent by a third-party letter vendor.
Credit reporting agencies are getting under consumers’ skin: 75% of complaints made to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2022 had to do with credit or consumer reporting, according to its annual report released March 31.
On March 30, 2023, a three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania held in a precedential opinion that debt collectors can send collection letters to debtors after the expiration of the statute of limitations without violating federal or Pennsylvania law, so long as the debt collector does not file suit in court.
The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau today took further action against voice service provider One Eye LLC, which the regulator said is continuing to facilitate illegal robocalls from overseas as a gateway provider, flouting FCC warnings to cease carrying unlawful traffic.
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