Data privacy and data protection are everyday phrases in today’s world. Hardly a week passes without a news mention of a potential breach in data security. While heightened scrutiny surrounds corporations handling and selling consumer data, they also must comply with federal laws and regulations to ensure that they are protecting the data they own, manage, and distribute. It is incumbent upon data providers to implement the internal controls necessary to mitigate risk, and a critical internal control is to “know the customer” before passing them consumer data.

• On-Site Verifications – on-site physical inspections to validate both business legitimacy and intent
  
  
• Tenant Screening – on-site evaluations of each operating office of Property Rental Companies to verify that each location is following FCRA requirements in the tenant screening process