Verizon customers in Maine asked the Public Utilities Commission to investigate whether the cellphone company handed over their phone records to the NSA. A July 28th letter from the DOJ to the PUC asked them to demure, and intimated at possible legal action.
consumer rights
Dealing With Abusive Debt Collectors By Phone
By 7.25.06
When debt collectors violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:
Pay Up, Deadbeat
By 7.20.06
Back when we were being stalked by debt collectors, our only recourse to their insistent demands was ripping up their letters and living on the top floor of a three-story building accessible only by a locked steel door. It turns out that debtors actually have rights and collection agents, limits. Neat.
