Consumer complaint received 2024-06-25
Product: Credit reporting or other personal consumer reports — Credit reporting
Issue: Improper use of your report — Report provided to employer without your written authorization
Company: EQUIFAX, INC. (TX)

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 consumers right to privacy. '' Equifax, XXXX 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 the following : 1. 15 USC 6801, which states that 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 non-public personal information. '' The Furnisher of information to credit agencies is a financial institution by definition under that title.

2. 15 USC 1681 section 604 a section 2 states that " In general Subject to subsection ( c ), any consumer reporting agency may furnish a consumer report under the following circumstances and no other : in accordance with the written instructions of the consumer to whom it relates. '' The Furnisher of information to credit agencies, which is the financial institution and consumer reporting agencies Equifax, XXXX and XXXX do not have my consent to furnish this information and they surely do not have my written consent. 

15 USC 6802 ( b ) ( c ) states that " A financial institution may not disclose non-public personal information to a non-affiliated third party unless the consumer is given an explanation of how the consumer can exercise that nondisclosure option. '' The Furnisher of information to credit agencies never informed me of my right to exercise my non-disclosure option. Additionally, 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. '' I did not give any of these furnishers of information to credit agencies my written consent or instructions to share any of the following reports ; nor did they give me an explanation of how I could exercise my nondisclosure options ; which violates the confidentiality and security of my non-public personal information : XXXX. XXXX - The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX XXXX- The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX  - The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX - The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX- The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX XXXX- The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX XXXX- The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX XXXX  - The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX XXXX XXXX- The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XX/XX/XXXX XXXX. XXXX XXXX OF XXXX- The Date Credit Last Reported Information : XXXX XXXX XXXX Reporting Address That Are No Longer Mailable And Are Not Accurate : XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX, TX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX, TX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX, NJ XXXX XXXX above listed accounts are adverse items that they have reported without my permission ; which is against the law. 15 U.S. Code 1681s2 ( A ) ( 1 ) A and states that : " A person shall not furnish any information relating to a consumer to any consumer reporting agency if the person knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the information is inaccurate. '' 15 U.S. Code 1681e also states that : 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. 

Equifax, XXXX and XXXX are not maintaining reasonable procedures. 

And finally, 12 CFR 1016.7 states that " A consumer may exercise the right to opt out at any time. ''