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Yes, most landlords will want to check your credit to help them decide whether to rent to you. Read More

On-time rent payments aren’t generally included in your credit report (your landlord has the option, but most don’t report them). However, if you don’t to pay your rent on time (or at all), your landlord might report it to a credit reporting agency and it would appear on your credit report.

A data breach is a security violation in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an unauthorized individual. It could be a result of

Sometimes. Currently, no federal law gives you the right to prevent data brokers from collecting, sharing or publishing your personal information. Read More

You can contact data brokers like MyLife directly to request that your information be removed, but there is no guarantee that you will succeed.

Even if you owe a debt, you have rights about when and how a debt collector contacts you.

By Beth Givens, Project Director
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

It never fails.

Comments Submitted to the Federal Trade Commission
for Consideration in the Third Privacy Roundtable (March 17, 2010)
by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

Beth Givens, Director