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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Instant Checkmate, Inc.
Penalty: $525,000
Year: 2014
Date: April 9, 2014
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Two data brokers have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act by providing reports about consumers to users such as prospective employers and landlords without taking reasonable steps to make sure that they were accurate, or without making sure their users had a permissible reason to have them.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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