People using private offices for car seizures are having continuous problems with their employees repossessing their cars in highly inappropiate manners. About 1.9 million repossessions took place in 2009, but some small businesses are becoming overly aggressive when it comes to collecting payments.

Car Repossessions have become quite the issue lately. In San Jose, California, a woman’s car was repossessed due to late payments while her 2 year old son was still in the vehicle. The police were called immediately, and half an hour later the boy was found at the car repossession office. According to reports, this has become a more common accurance. Other cases included incidents like fights, arrests, and use of weapons.

When dealing with auto loans, one needs to be very careful about who they work with. Leadpile works closely with our affiliates to avoid these types of situations, and we would certainly not engage in these kinds of unprofessional behaviors.

Privacy groups believe that there needs to be legislation in place to protect consumers on the internet. Many are concerned that data collection of consumer’s internet experiences are not fair to the consumers, unless they opt in to allow this behavioral targeting to happen. The FTC was petitioned back in 2007, however now it is at the point of Congress and potentially enacting a new law(s).
Many retailers believe their use of behavioral targeting has allowed them to have an increase in sales. According to one retailer, “Personalizing a Web site [via behavioral targeting] helps an individual with an intent to find what they are looking for and helps the site owner deliver more content that is relevant to the individual, said Pete Olson, VP of product management at Amadesa.” The new potential legislation is looking at having the consumer “allow” such tracking of their internet behavior. Yahoo has argued that a consumer’s privacy should be respected in order to build trust with their consumers. Yahoo is doing it’s own regulatory data collecting by only keeping consumer’s data for 90 days. However, not all businesses are wanting to implement their own “rules”, therefore legislation seems to be the only way to protect consumer’s rights.
Leadpile will keep an eye on what happens with this potential legislation.