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It does a whole lot more than that, brother. Consumers are allowed to correct inaccuracies for one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act




I'm not sure what it has to do with your question, which was "The FCRA was designed to prevent this kind of thing. I wonder how they get around it?". Landlords have permissible purpose to check your credit report, so they aren't "getting around it".




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