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I feel like we need to extend the laws we have that govern credit reporting agencies to these other businesses that aggregate personal data. Which hopefully wil
by Gibbon1 6y ago
I feel like we need to extend the laws we have that govern credit reporting agencies to these other businesses that aggregate personal data. Which hopefully will put them right out of business.
- chrismatheson 6y agoAre credit bureaus any better? I mean I know equifax messed up royally and I have no reason to believe that all the rest aren’t pushing on every conceivable limit of the law to maximise the profit to be made from information they scrape about me without my consent, then pay lip service to protecting it.
- Gibbon1 6y agoYou can see your credit report, challenge information you think is incorrect. And there are restrictions on what information they can collect on you. You can lock your report as well. Some types of pulls require your signature. None of these other grey market data collection firms have to do any of that. One thing I noticed is these guys are collecting data that would fall under HIPPA. Go ahead do some searches for Hepatitis C and then look at your ads on Facebook.