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Equifax Could Be Selling Your Salary History. Here’s How to Protect It.
Equifax is made up of many credit reporting agencies. The most famous Equifax credit reporting agency that sells personal financial information is the one that recently suffered one of the most highly publicized and highly sensitive data breaches in history, impacting...
America’s Largest Companies Quietly Give Worker Data to Equifax
Users of Facebook are accustomed to trading personal data for convenience. Until 2031, Facebook Inc. is on privacy probation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, because, the FTC said in 2011, the company “deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their...
How Insurance Companies Predict When You’ll Die
Life insurance is arguably the most disturbing financial product a law-abiding citizen can buy. After all, life insurance is essentially an investment on your life that pays off only when you die. If someone is buying a car, it would be normal for them to consider...
How Landlords Learn Your Secrets: Special Credit Reports
Finding the perfect house or apartment to rent is pretty tough — you have to consider your budget, your commute, your needs and wants and even your credit report, which has become a standard part of the application process. But once you've put in a rental application,...
Americans’ Sexual Preferences Tracked by a Credit Reporting Agency
The Medical Information Bureau Inc. (MIB Inc.) has been the subject of ongoing controversy since the 1970′s, when its existence first became generally known. At the root of the controversy is the organization’s penchant for secrecy. For many years, insurance agencies...
A Credit Report for Your Health
As consumers, we would never apply for credit cards or mortgages without checking our “annual credit reports” to ensure accuracy and fair pricing. However, there is virtually no awareness among consumers that a few, large corporations collect, store, and sell their...
Why Are Medical Records Used in Credit Reports?
As consumers, we would never apply for credit cards or mortgages without checking our “annual credit reports” to ensure accuracy and fair pricing. However, there is virtually no awareness among consumers that a few, large corporations collect, store, and sell their...
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I want the entire credit system completely dismantled. To hell with FICO, Experian, and Equifax.
some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair
Credit scores are supposed to be race-neutral. That’s impossible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/10/16/how-race-affects-your-credit-score/
