Debt collectors' social-media use targeted Federal regulators could wind up agreeing with Haralson as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade Commission examine how debt collectors use social media websites like those run by Facebook and Twitter to contact potential debtors. Federal regulators are considering a series of actions in 2013 as they impose comprehensive federal oversight for the first time over the debt-collection industry, which generated 180,000 consumer complaints to the FTC in 2011. In particular, Vladeck, who left the FTC in December and is now a ... Read More