May
07
FTC Sting Operation Results in Warnings to 10 Data Brokers
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The Federal Trade Commission continues its crackdown on the consumer data industry. The agency today announced it sent warning letters to ten data brokers suggesting they may be in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The effort appears to be the result of an undercover data shopping operation.
The FTC “test-shopped” for data from the companies and determined that they may be in violation of the FCRA, according to the missives, dated last week.
The firms in the crosshairs are ConsumerBase, Brokers Data, US Data Corporation, Crimcheck.com, 4Nannies, U.S. Information Search, People Search Now, Case Breakers and USA People Search. The tenth company was not named by the FTC.
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