Tag: privacy

The goal of this Act, approved in September 1977, was to eliminate abusive debt collection practices by debt collectors and to promote consistent state action to protect consumers against debt collection abuses and invasions of individual privacy.The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act laid down specific guidelines pertaining to these processes:Acquisition Of InformationAny debt collector trying to obtain location information of a customer would identify himself and his purpose properly and when the need arises also disclose his employer...

We all can give an anecdote about how we live daily with less privacy.However, in a more compact way, examine for a moment how this erosion is performed in our lives every day as increasingly--and frequently, subtly--we unwittingly give away access to highly personal, medical info.In regular personal injury law, claimants (a claimant is a person who"puts their physical or medical condition at issue" in a lawsuit for injuries caused by a car collision or other incidental or deliberate act) innocently surrender psychiatric and medical information...