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$30 Million Proposed Settlement Reached in Wells Fargo TCPA Lawsuit
September 4, 2016. By Heidi Turner.
Atlanta, GA: Wells Fargo has reached a preliminary settlement worth around $30 million in the TCPA lawsuit filed against it. The settlement addresses allegations the financial institution violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by using autodialers and systems that helped the system predict when consumers were likely to answer their phone.
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Feds Considering Exemptions to Illegal RoboCall Rules
August 11, 2016. By Gordon Gibb.
Washington, DC: You’ve heard it before: what the government giveth, the government taketh away. That’s the crux of a divergence of goals and protections that pit one arm of the federal government against the other in the name of collecting delinquent accounts. The result is a major crack in an armor intended to protect Americans already under siege from illegal robocalls.
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