On April 14, a Northern District of California court dismissed a class action against a professional networking website, holding that the site's search service was not a "consumer report" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA"). The plaintiffs argued that the site's reference search service, which provided prospective employers with the names of people who might know a candidate, constituted a "consumer report" under the FCRA. The court rejected these arguments, stating that the website is not a "consumer reporting agency under the FCRA," and that the reference search results themselves did not provide information about the candidate that rose to the level of a consumer report.
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