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Credit can be verified and challenged and corrected. Gossip cannot.
by yeahitslikethat 7y ago
Credit can be verified and challenged and corrected.
Gossip cannot.
- syrrim 7y agoThere was a recent post here regarding someone who was recorded as dead by the credit agencies after the death of their father. In that case it couldn't be corrected in any meaningful sense. Gossip can be corrected, in a meaningful sense, by contacting choice people, and informing them of the correct information. Even if they don't propagate the correction, they themselves will be aware of it and act according to it. This opposed to unthinking credit agencies, liable to unlearn the correction as soon as another credit agencies re-reports the death. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19656322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19656322
- swiley 7y agoThat doesn't match what people who have had to deal with credit reporting agencies have told me.