On January 31, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced a settlement with CashCall, Inc. over allegations that the company illegally deceived borrowers and collected interest in excess of legal rates.
According to the press release, the A.G.’s Office alleged that CashCall violated Virginia’s usury, lending, and licensure laws by entering into an arrangement in
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against D-Link Corporation, a Taiwanese corporation, and D-Link Systems, Inc., a California corporation and a subsidiary of D-Link Corporation. D-Link sells Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices and software to support such devices. Specifically, D-Link sells routers which transfer data packets along a network and which
On January 26, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a settlement with Acer Service Corporation over an alleged data breach involving more than 35,000 credit card numbers, including the credit card information and other personal information of 2,250 New York residents. As part of the settlement, Acer agreed to pay $115,000 in penalties
On January 24, attorneys general for Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Illinois, New York, and the District of Columbia filed a motion to intervene in a case between the U.S. Department of Education and the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (“ACICS”).
ACICS, which previously has come under federal scrutiny for its accreditation practices, filed the
On January 23, Democratic attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia filed a motion to intervene in the closely watched PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau case, currently pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. As we reported here and here, in October
On December 19, 2016, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered a Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction and Monetary Judgment to resolve all matters in dispute in the case of Federal Trade Commission and State of Florida v. Inbound Call Experts, LLC et al. after the parties reached a
On January 18, the CFPB and the state attorneys general for Illinois and Washington filed three separate enforcement actions against Navient Corporation and its related entities for violations of a number of consumer protection laws. Navient is the largest student loan servicer in the United States, servicing the loans of more than 12
On January 10, the FTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Credit Bureau Center LLC and three individuals for allegedly luring consumers into signing up for credit monitoring services using fake rental property ads and offers of free credit reports.
The complaint alleged that all the
On January 4, a defendant in a Fair Debt Collections Practices Act case moved for sanctions against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, arguing that it never had proof that the defendant acted wrongfully when it filed suit in early 2015. In support of its Motion, Pathfinder Payment Solutions, Inc. stated that the Bureau “knowingly exceeded
On January 12, the FTC held its second annual PrivacyCon conference in Washington. The day-long event featured presentations and exhibits by a number of scholars and privacy experts offering their research on consumer privacy and security in the digital age.
Chairwoman Edith Ramirez opened PrivacyCon by noting the myriad ways that consumer data is collected,