The story of Home Depot is a tale of greed, grift, and civil procedure. It centers on a scheme that involved three companies: Home Depot, Citibank, and Carolina Water Systems Inc. Here’s how it allegedly worked. Representatives from Home Depot or CWS called homeowners and claimed that “contaminants” were found in nearby tap water. They urged homeowners […]
Nearly 12 million U.S. residents may have had their credit cards, Social Security numbers compromised, thanks to a data breach at a medical blll-collection agency. It’s likely that names, addresses and dates of birth were also part of the breach. https://www.tomsguide.com/us/amca-data-breach,news-30238.html
Senate Bill 1581, introduced by Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-Ore.] and co-sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-Conn.], Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-Mass.], Sen. Bob Menendez [D-N.J.], and Sen. Dick Durbin [D-Ill.], would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act by delaying reporting of an individual’s medical debt to credit reporting agencies for one year. It would also require the […]
Big data gets visual. https://www.crainsnewyork.com/politics/ny-bill-would-bar-facial-recognition-programs-landlords New legislation introduced in New York state would ban the use of facial recognition software by landlords in residential buildings. The bill, announced Thursday, comes after officials in San Francisco voted to prohibit police and other city agencies from using facial recognition systems.
https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/credit/credit-report-mistakes-errors/ The Federal Trade Commission conducted a study which found that one in five consumers discovered mistakes on at least one of their credit reports that might impact their credit scores. However, many (perhaps most) of the errors on credit reports aren’t actually caused by the credit bureaus themselves. Rather, data furnishers like banks, creditors and collection […]
A clear statement that there is a price to pay when greed so terribly blinds corporate “persons” that they irreparably harm real people. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/health/monsanto-roundup-cancer-verdict-bn/index.html “This is going to continue until Monsanto and now Bayer takes responsibility for its product,” Wisner said. “This is not the end of this litigation,” he said. “This is the […]
A 2017 survey of more than 100,000 renters by the National Multifamily Housing Council, a landlord group, showed 3% of those surveyed paid rent with credit cards and 16% said they would do so if their landlords agreed. “As rents have gone up, we get more and more emails and phone calls where people would […]
Do your credit reports include unfamiliar accounts or information? Learn more here: https://creditreportlawgroup.com/lawyer/Identity-Theft_cp16179.htm Wolters Kluwer provides software and services to all of the top 100 accounting firms in the U.S., 90% of top global banks and 93% of Fortune 500 companies, according to its web site. Many of its tax and accounting services, as well […]
The new rules would bar collectors from making more than seven attempts a week to reach a debtor by phone. Once they make contact, collectors would have to wait a week before calling again. The new rules also grant debt collectors a concession they have long wanted: allowing the use of email and text messages […]
Identity theft protection isn’t just for adults anymore. As stories of data breaches and identity theft have become part of the daily news cycle, a recent law enacted by Congress provides increased protection to minors from such attacks. Under Pub. L. 115-175, better known as the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the […]