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Now here is a perfect, legitimate use of libel law. If a company with whom you have no relationship is lying about you to people with whom you're attempting to
by _jal 9y ago
Now here is a perfect, legitimate use of libel law. If a company with whom you have no relationship is lying about you to people with whom you're attempting to do business, that sounds like libel to me.
Of course, that's preempted by a federal law that Equifax & friends carefully purchased. Perhaps all we need is for them to lose that protection to give them a reason to care.
- rectang 9y agoNow you're talkin'! Today, an ordinary person can barely even get inaccuracies in a credit report changed after laborious effort -- to say nothing of being denied a house, a car, or a job as a result of that inaccurate info. Equifax and the credit agencies only exist because they are allowed to perpetrate great harm spread across millions. They are a giant negative externality.