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Under the law, credit bureaus and other CRAs can release your information only to those third parties that have certified that they have a purpose permitted by the law to obtain your consumer report, such as to evaluate your application for credit, insurance, or employment, or to rent you an apartment.

Virtually any small business or organization that extends credit to consumers can report this data to the four credit reporting agencies. Experian, Equifax, Innovis, and TransUnion will all accept information about your customers' or tenants' payments.

Section 623 of the FCRA and Regulation V generally provide that a furnisher must not furnish inaccurate consumer information to a CRA, and that furnishers must investigate a consumer's dispute that the furnished information is inaccurate or incomplete.

Only officially approved data furnishers may report payment activity and other account information to the credit bureaus. To be approved, a data furnisher must generally be some sort of business and meet a variety of data protection, legal compliance, and other requirements.

Section 623(a)(1)(B). If a consumer notifies a furnisher that the consumer disputes the completeness or accuracy of any information reported by the furnisher, the furnisher may not subsequently report that information to a CRA without providing notice of the dispute.

Section 604(f) prohibits any person from obtaining a consumer report from a consumer reporting agency (CRA) Page 2 unless the person has certified to the CRA the permissible purpose(s) for which the report is being obtained and certifies that the report will not be used for any other purpose.