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The posts included info on credit histories, debt-to-income ratios, taxes, health, sources of income, and family relationships. The FTC noted that the broker has a legal obligation to keep all such information confidential pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the FTC Act (prohibiting, among other things, unfair and deceptive acts and practices).
While this particular complaint describes what appears to be a blatant violation, it may be a good opportunity to remind our lender clients of their obligations under the FFIEC’s 2013 guidance to financial institutions on oversight and control of social media, including Yelp. Other federal regulators, such as the OCC, FDIC, NCUA and CFPB, also use this guidance in their supervision of the institutions they supervise. That guidance is available here.
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