Consumer complaint received 2023-12-10
Company: Experian Information Solutions Inc.
State: PA
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports
Sub-product: Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report
Sub-issue: Reporting company used your report improperly

Complaint:
XXXX XXXX XXXX  to remove this account from my consumer report due to it being a charged off account & is now a certificate of indebtedness, charged off & canceled by a 1099-c a cancellation of debt irs form , due to this now being a certificate of indebtedness it is now considered income & must be removed off my consumer report immediately! According to the Fair Credit Reporting Act 15 USC 1681 section 602 a states " There is a need to insure that consumer reporting agencies exercise their grave responsibilities with fairness, impartiality, and a respect for the consumer 's right to privacy. XXXX and Experian and XXXX are consumer reporting agencies and I am the Consumer. I have the right to make sure my private information isn't shared which is backed by 15 USC 6801 which states It is the policy of the Congress that each financial institution has an affirmative and continuing obligation to respect the privacy of its customers and to protect the security and confidentiality of those customers ' nonpublic personal information.Per the FCRA as a federally protected consumer I am now opting out of any and all authorization I the consumer may have given you written, unwritten, verbal, and nonverbal Per 15 USC 6802. A financial institution may not disclose nonpublic personal information to a nonaffiliated third party unless the consumer is given an explanation of how the consumer can exercise that nondisclosure option. The law says It is illegal to report transactions on a consumer report. reporting false & harmful damaging information to my consumer report, as well as damaging my reputation, humiliation, & emotional damage to my mental health! XXXX XXXX  Never informed me of my right to exercise my nondisclosure option. Not only that 15 USC 1681C ( a ) ( 5 ) states Except as authorized under subsection ( b ), no consumer reporting agency may make any consumer report containing any of the following items of information Any other adverse item of information, other than records of convictions of crimes which antedates the report by more than seven years. This account is an adverse item they are reporting again without my permission which 15 U.S. Code $ 1681e states Every consumer reporting agency shall maintain reasonable procedures designed to avoid violations of section 1681c of this title and to limit the furnishing of consumer reports to the purposes listed under section 1681b of this title. XXXX and Experian and XXXX are not maintaining reasonable procedures. Also 12 CFR 1016.7 states that " A consumer may exercise the right to opt out at any time. I am opting out of your reporting services. Violating the privacy act of 1974! 

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX  XXXX credit limit {$700.00} high balance {$1100.00} date opened XX/XX/XXXX

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