Mobile app developers settle with FCRA over background screening apps

January 14, 2013

A. Furnishing a consumer report to any person which respondents do not have reason to believe has a permissible purpose;

B. Failing to maintain reasonable procedures designed to limit the furnishing of consumer reports to the purposes listed under Section 604(a) of the FCRA;

C. Failing to maintain reasonable procedures to assure the maximum possible accuracy of the information concerning the individual about whom a consumer report relates;

D. Failing to provide the “Notice to Users of Consumer Reports: Obligations of Users Under the FCRA” (“User Notice”) required by Section 607(d) of the FCRA to all users of respondents’ consumer reports; and,

E. Failing to provide the Notice to Furnishers of Information: Obligations of Furnishers Under the FCRA (“Furnisher Notice”) required by Section 607(d) of the FCRA to all furnishers of consumer report information to respondents.

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