New York’s financial regulatory agency is asking the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to pump the brakes on a proposed rule that would enable debt collectors to contact consumers through email, text message or even social media without restraint.

State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Linda Lacewell wrote in a letter to the federal regulatory agency that the proposed rule doesn’t address the problems everyday consumers face from debt collection companies. 

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