The third-party call centers it had hired used high-pressure sales tactics to sell consumers add-on features to their credit cards but misled them about the benefits.

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In its first public enforcement action, the CFPB found that third-party call-center vendors of Capital One Bank pressured or misled customers into paying for payment protection and credit monitoring products when they activated their credit cards, according to a press release.

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Third-party payers and the government call the shots instead of the patients.

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The rest are automatic, such as clicking a pre-configured link or having the browser execute request within a web page (for example, requests to call images and additional content from third party sites).

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His post, a screenshot of his Diablo III experience, aimed to call out Blizzard to take action against message-spamming third party merchants, and to have a reasonable level of player-moderation.

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Third-party providers install and maintain huge reserves of public cloud service capacity: so you can call on extra resources at peak times and release them when they are no longer needed.

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There was talk when I was there of what they call a third force that--which would be dissident members of Mr. Mugabe's party, Zanu PF, joining up with some of the current opposition, the MDC.

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