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The Act (Title VI of the Consumer Credit Protection Act) protects information collected by consumer reporting agencies such as credit bureaus, medical information companies and tenant screening services. Information in a consumer report cannot be provided to anyone who does not have a purpose specified in the Act.

This question is one that is often open to interpretation by the court, but, in general, courts accept clearly intentional acts as willful violations as well as “reckless” conduct, whereby an agent's actions contain an unjustifiably high risk of harm that is either known or so obvious it should be known.

Credit bureaus may also sell information about you to lenders and insurers who use the infor- mation to decide whether to send you unsolicited offers of credit or insurance. This is known as prescreening. You can opt out of receiving these prescreened offers by calling 1-888-567-8688.

Some common examples of FACTA violations involve businesses printing more than five digits of a credit card number on a receipt or printing any portion of the expiration date. Businesses must also securely dispose of any records containing sensitive identifying information.

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) , 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq., governs access to consumer credit report records and promotes accuracy, fairness, and the privacy of personal information assembled by Credit Reporting Agencies (CRAs).

Consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information. In most cases, a consumer reporting agency may not report negative information that is more than seven years old, or bankruptcies that are more than 10 years old. Access to your file is limited.

Which of the following actions are specifically prohibited by the Fair Credit Reporting Act? - Asking someone to get another persons customer information using false, fictions or fraudulent statements or using counterfeit, forged, lost or stolen documents.

Section 609(a) of the FCRA generally requires consumer reporting agencies to, upon request, “clearly and accurately” disclose “all information in the consumer's file at the time of the request.” To meet this standard, a file disclosure must be understandable to the average consumer.

Common violations of the FCRA include: Failure to update reports after completion of bankruptcy is just one example. Agencies might also report old debts as new and report a financial account as active when it was closed by the consumer. Creditors give reporting agencies inaccurate financial information about you.