Consumer complaint received 2023-06-06
Company: NRA Group, LLC
State: MD
Product: Credit reporting, credit repair services, or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report
Sub-issue: Reporting company used your report improperly

Complaint:
" Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act 15 USC 1681 Section 602 a states " It is necessary to ensure that credit reporting agencies discharge their serious responsibilities with fairness, impartiality, and respect for the consumer 's right to privacy. '' XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX are consumer reporting agencies and I am the Consumer. I have the right to ensure that my private information is not disclosed, which is supported by 15 USC 6801, which states, " It is the policy of Congress that every financial institution has an affirmative and continuing obligation to respect the privacy of its customers and to protect the security and confidentiality of the nonpublic personal information of those customers. '' ( transmitters of information to credit reporting agencies ) is a financial institution as defined in this title. 15 USC 1681 section 604 ( a ) ( 2 ) states, " In general, subject to subsection ( c ), a consumer reporting agency may provide a consumer report only under the following circumstances : in accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. '' ( disclosure of information to credit reporting agencies ) the financial institution and the consumer reporting agencies XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX Do Not have my consent to share this information, and they certainly do not have my written consent. Any consent to XXXX, XXXX, XXXX ( suppliers of information to credit reporting agencies ), whether oral, non-oral, written, implied or otherwise, is revoked. 15 USC 6802 ( b ) ( c ) states that " a financial institution may not disclose nonpublic personal information to a nonaffiliated third party unless the consumer is provided with an explanation of how to exercise this option not to disclose. '' ( Disclosure of Information to Credit Reporting Agencies ) never informed me of my right to exercise my right not to disclose. Not only that 15 USC 1681C ( a ) ( 5 ) states, " Except as permitted under subsection ( b ), no consumer reporting agency may provide a consumer report that contains any of the following information Any other adverse information, other than records of felony convictions, that dates back more than seven years to the report. '' This account is adverse information that they are re-reporting without my permission, which is against the law. 15 U.S. Code 1681s-2 ( A ) ( 1 ) A states, " A person shall not provide information about a consumer to a consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate. 15 U.S. Code 1681e states, " Each consumer reporting agency shall maintain reasonable procedures designed to prevent violations of section 1681c of this title and to limit the provision of consumer reports to the purposes specified in section 1681b of this title. '' XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX do not follow adequate procedures. Also, 12 CFR 1016.7 states, " A consumer may exercise the right to withdraw at any time. '' I am opting out of your reporting services. ''

Company public response: Company has responded to the consumer and the CFPB and chooses not to provide a public response
Company response to consumer: Closed with explanation