LOS ANGELES -- Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, launching inquiries into high levels of cadmium in children's jewelry while Walmart pulled many suspect items from its store shelves. A day after The Associated Press documented the contamination in an investigative report, the top U.S. consumer safety regulator warned Asian manufacturers not to substitute other toxins for lead in children's charm bracelets and pendants.
... flow of information between "users"3 of "consumer reports,"4 "furnishers" of consumer information,5 ... on employers that obtain investigative consumer reports from a CRA. A consumer report is ...
... input from interested industry and consumer groups and other public parties on the Commentary ... obligations on persons who obtain investigative reports or cause them to be prepared. Section 615(...
YONKERS, N.Y., June 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Choosing a good, safe, and affordable assisted-living facility can be extremely difficult and has become problematic for seniors and their families. There's a lot to consider: the setting, the cost, the array of services, the condition of the other residents, the solvency of the company, and the rights of residents to stay or the necessity for them to go if their condition deteriorates. For its July investigative report, Consumer Reports visited a dozen sites and talked to experts as well as residents and their families. CR provides important advice on how to choose a facility. Some of the investigation's main findings include: Most facilities don't provide important information consumers need to make a proper decision. Just getting the informa...
... to Plaintiff, including a Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") consent form. Plaintiff signed and re... Investigative Consumer Reports. Under § 1681a(e), an "investigative cons...
YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The practices of commercial data brokers can rob consumers of their privacy, threaten them with identity theft and profile them as dead beats or security risks, according to an investigative report in Consumer Reports October Issue. Choice Point, LexisNexis and Acxiom are among the largest of the horde of data brokers that generate billions of dollars in revenue by selling sensitive and personal information about millions of Americans to paying customers, sometimes including crooks looking to cash in.
Employee fraud has increased in frequency and intensity during the past few years, leading employers to step up their use of background checks. These investigations provide opportunities for CPAs and forensic accountants, but they also present legal pitfalls if accountants are not familiar with (FCRA). Fraud does not discriminate and is found in all types of organizations. The FCRA, which took effect in 1971, was enacted to protect consumers from inaccurate or misleading credit reports and from unauthorized disclosure of information in the reports. Applying the FCRA to investigations conducted by accounting firms or fraud investigators may discourage companies from undertaking such investigations and could interfere with their effectiveness when they are pe...
... to procure a consumer report or investigative consumer report from a consumer reporting agency. ...
... decide whether the recipient of an investigative report prepared for the defense of a personal inju...1681 et seq. relating to "investigative consumer reports" when it did not request such a report and...
... flow of information between "users"3 of "consumer reports,"4 "furnishers" of consumer information,5 ... on employers that obtain investigative consumer reports from a CRA. A consumer report is ...
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