At a Goldman Sachs conference in December, Equifax CEO Mark Begor told investors that his company has a monopoly in an obscure but important area - selling data about your salary to third parties.
Folks rage about “social credit scores”, aka Chinese system, ignoring WE ALREADY HAVE IT.
Databases built about me, without my consent, that I have to constantly monitor for misinformation, then struggle to get relief when they are wrong, or even pay them, or third parties, for that relief.
The Work Number is a manifest evil. Go request your report. It's free. You'll probably find they have every single pay check from every single employer you've ever worked for over your entire working life. They do for me.
You can request a free freeze of your data, which I did, by mailing a form, because why not make it complicated. And why do you have to opt-OUT instead of IN? Ha.
Credit Reports can be locked, preventing the agencies from sharing your report. How about the Work Number based report? Any ways to lock the data? Any legal basis for requesting my employer to stop selling my information?
I don't understand why our addresses have been available for the whole world to see since the Internet started, and nobody has done anything about it. At the beginning maybe there was confusion... government agencies slow to understand what the Internet is 😂, but at this point, it's been decades.
How Equifax Became a Private IRS
Folks rage about “social credit scores”, aka Chinese system, ignoring WE ALREADY HAVE IT.
Databases built about me, without my consent, that I have to constantly monitor for misinformation, then struggle to get relief when they are wrong, or even pay them, or third parties, for that relief.
Deregulated capitalism is cannibalism
Matt - thank you for the brilliant work you're doing. As always, excellent
The Work Number is a manifest evil. Go request your report. It's free. You'll probably find they have every single pay check from every single employer you've ever worked for over your entire working life. They do for me.
You can request a free freeze of your data, which I did, by mailing a form, because why not make it complicated. And why do you have to opt-OUT instead of IN? Ha.
Credit Reports can be locked, preventing the agencies from sharing your report. How about the Work Number based report? Any ways to lock the data? Any legal basis for requesting my employer to stop selling my information?
I don't understand why our addresses have been available for the whole world to see since the Internet started, and nobody has done anything about it. At the beginning maybe there was confusion... government agencies slow to understand what the Internet is 😂, but at this point, it's been decades.