“Consumers struggling to find housing shouldn’t be shut out by tenant screening reports that are ridden with errors and based on data from secret sources,” said Samuel Levine, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection director, in a statement. They charge that TransUnion and TURSS failed to take steps to ensure the accuracy of background checks used by landlords to decide who gets housing and to disclose to renters the names of the third parties that were given the inaccurate information. In the rental background checks case, the CFPB and FTC jointly filed a complaint in federal court charging that TransUnion and its TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions (TURSS) subsidiary violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The move comes as the government, through agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has cracked down on specific practices at credit reporting agencies. TransUnion, a consumer credit reporting agency, said in an October 10 statement that it has agreed to two settlements with the government for the entire sum. The federal government has fined TransUnion a total of $23 million - including some $14 million to be paid to consumers - over illegal rental background checks and security locks and freezes on consumer credit reports. ![]() ![]() ![]() Government charges TransUnion over illegal rental background checks and security freezes on consumer credit reports.
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