President Obama's Deficit Reduction Plan Would Allow Debt Collectors To Contact Alleged Debtors' Cell Phones

Tucked away deep in the President's deficit reduction plan (at page 28) is a proposal to amend the Federal Communications Act to allow debt collectors collecting debts to (or guaranteed by) the federal government to contact alleged debtors on their cells phones. The National Consumer Law Centers says that this is a very bad idea that would do little or nothing to reduce the deficit and give an abusive industry another avenue for harrassment while using up people's scare cell-phone minutes.