Allegations that US Bank, a unit of U.S. Bancorp, violated the federal law and state privacy laws by providing the telemarketing vendor with such private information as Social Security numbers, account balances, transactions and credit limits in return for millions of dollars

Hatch v US Bank complaint - Defendants US Bank National Association ND and its parent holding company, US Bancorp, have sold their customers’ private, confidential information to MemberWorks, Inc., a telemarketing company, for $4 million dollars plus commissions of 22 percent of net revenue on sales made by MemberWorks AG.State.MN

Litigation Hits Privacy Practices: The suit is against USBancorp. The complaint alleges that the Bank sold customer information, including account information, to telemarketing companies who used the information to market products and services to the bank's customers and then debited their accounts Bankers Online

Numerous complaints regarding unauthorized MWI charges Consumer Group

Very interesting copy of the Minnesota Attorney General Lawsuit Consumer Group

MWI Consumer Complaints Consumer Affairs

Hatch charges U.S. Bank with consumer fraud Legal Ledger

State of Minnesota vs. US Bank National Association ND and affiliated parties Legal Ledger

States Charged U.S. Bank Misrepresented Privacy Policy in Selling Customer Info Maryland AG

Settled Customer Privacy Case with US Bank - An investigation by several states revealed that US Bank and its parent holding company, US Bancorp, sold confidential information regarding hundreds of thousands of its customers, in Vermont and elsewhere, to various telemarketing companies. In return, the bank received a commission of 22 percent of net revenue on sales with a guaranteed minimum payment of $3.75 million ATG State VT

ATTORNEY GENERAL REACHES AGREEMENT WITH U.S. BANK ...The multi-state investigation focused on the bank's sale of customer information, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, account numbers and other sensitive financial data to marketers Access Kansas

US Bank settles privacy lawsuit Michael Fraase: Hasten down the wire

U.S. Bancorp, the 10th largest U.S. banking company, settled an investigation with Nevada and 37 other states involving the sale of confidential customer information to a telemarketing firm...The Minnesota investigation centered on an arrangement that involved telemarketer Memberworks Inc. paying U.S. Bancorp $4 million plus commissions for financial and personal information on 900,000 customers Review Journal

CORPORATE FOCUS: Greed, and Lies, and Other Corporate Tricks: How has corporate America shafted us this month? Hatch alleged that U.S. Bank, a unit of U.S. Bancorp, violated the federal law and state privacy laws by providing the telemarketing vendor with such private information as Social Security numbers, account balances, transactions and credit limits   AlterNet

U.S. Banks Ends Phone Program, Launches Newspaper Effort- Two days after being sued by the Minnesota state Attorney General for alleged privacy violations, U.S. Bank ended its contracts with Memberworks and other telemarketing firms and launched a newspaper ad effort ostensibly to fend off possible bad publicity BG Direct

A Classless Action: A massive consumer lawsuit against U.S. Bank ends in nickels and dimes for the plaintiffs, but big checks for attorneys City Pages

Banks' Release of Client Data Is Examined by Task Force - Minnesota attorney general independently sued U.S. Bancorp, alleging the Minneapolis bank violated federal privacy laws and fraudulently stated in customer brochures that it protected confidential customer information, when in fact it shared that data with outside telemarketing companies CyberLaw

U.S. Bank Kills Phone Effort U.S. BANK HAS halted a controversial telemarketing program only two days after being sued by the Minnesota Attorney General for alleged privacy violations Direct Marketing Business Intelligence

RE: Senate Banking Committee Hearing on Affiliate Sharing Practices and Their Relationship to the Fair Credit Reporting Act Epic

Least Wanted: The Top 10 Corporate Criminals of 1999 "U.S. Bank: Big Brother is watching" Global Policy

Bank Privacy Sold Out Multinational Monitor

What Is the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 And How Does Information Sharing Affect Your Privacy? PIRG

FINANCIAL PRIVACY FIGHT IN CONGRESS CONTINUES! PIRG

The U.S. Bancorp settlement got a lot of people's attention, not least a group of state attorneys general. Here's what you should know and do in response The Perils of Privacy

The Great Identity Heist US Bancorp named in article on Identity Theft : U.S. Bancorp not only sold the information, but opened its customers up to additional abuse Perfectly Private

Chipping away at consumer privacy Complaints on shared data rise - U.S. Bank in Minneapolis was fined $4 million for selling information to MemberWorks SFGate

“Stupid advertising plus stupid practices does a stupid company make” Word Sleuth

"I don't think U.S. Bank wanted to be in this situation, but they're the ones who put themselves in it" MPR - Privacy Dies a Back Room Death

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