FIRM IS ORDERED TO STOP SELLING NAMES.(BUSINESS)

Byline: Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Trans Union Corp., one of the nation's largest credit bureaus, is under a judge's orders to stop distributing and selling detailed lists of customers' names based on consumer credit information.

James P. Timony, an administrative law judge for the Federal Trade Commission, ruled that Trans Union ``invades consumers' privacy when it sells consumers' credit histories to third-party marketers without consumers' knowledge or consent.''

Timony's ruling doesn't prevent companies that gather credit information from selling some details to marketers, but requires credit reporting agencies to ask consumers whether they …