Re: Judge: Debt agency can't contact woman on Facebook

[<michael.blanchard () emc com>]

I hope this starts to set a precedent here.  I've heard horror stories about people's parents and family being called, 
co-workers being called, neighbors being called etc.  I was once called about a neighbor's debt, they were behind a 
payment, I proudly told the collection agency to go screw and if they called me again I'd file a harassment complaint, 
they never called me back....

  A debt collector should only be able to contact the borrower via their phone number that was given on their 
application or registered mail.  Failing that, the debt collector should bring the borrower to court or write it off as 
a loss and take the tax deduction....

 Mike B

Michael P. Blanchard
Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management
EMC ² Corporation
32 Coslin Drive
Southboro, MA 01772


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 9:37 AM
To: FunSec
Subject: [funsec] Judge: Debt agency can't contact woman on Facebook

A Florida judge has ordered a debt collection agency to not use
Facebook or any other social media site in an attempt to locate a
woman over a $362 unpaid car loan. Judge W. Douglas Baird also ordered
Mark One Financial LLC of Jacksonville, Fla. to refrain from
contacting the woman's family or friends on Facebook.

The order is part of a lawsuit that Melanie Beacham filed last August
against the debt collection agency. According to court documents,
Beacham said Mark One sent messages to her and her family on the
Facebook networking site to have her call the agency about the debt.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41992979/ns/technology_and_science-security/
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