Virginia Pro climate to leave the company open to consumers in the cold.
In 2002, while Irene Leech was served in a state Task Force for identity theft, she suggested that consumers with their credit histories have more ammunition against the misuse of their personal data.
Leech, President of Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, proposed that Virginians on a free credit report once a year. But the intelligence agency in accordance with industry against the idea, and he was quickly released.
“Our company fight tooth and nail to toe against most measures of support from consumers,” said Leech. “And we let ‘em.”
National Consumer Protection Week starts today, if Virginia and earned a report card, he can barely a set of notes, is supported by many consumers. The General Assembly of Virginia is considering several bills that supporters feared that other bands Virginians rights, measures against companies, whether false.
Some proposals, it would admit that certain controversial practices of the credit card companies and automobile dealers. Another would limit damage awards in cases where, under the state Consumer Protection Act.
Pending Virginians lose representation of consumers each year. In October, one of the few offices consumers at the local level, based in Arlington County, closed as a result of cutbacks in the city.
Leech and other consumer advocates in Virginia to express the frustration of a political climate, which they describe as encouraging companies over individuals. Virginia, now known as a great country in which to do business, partly because of the weakness of consumer protection in respect of laws and limits on what consumers can be undertaken, lawyers said.
“It’s a very, very pro-business, laissez-faire attitude:” Let you keep the buyer, “said Ira Rheingold, director of the National Association of Consumer favourable to a group of trade and other lawyers The contracts specializing in consumer problems.
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