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The big US carriers are post-paid and run credit checks on subscribers.
by t3rabytes 5y ago
The big US carriers are post-paid and run credit checks on subscribers.
- swiley 5y agoIt's days like today that I'm very glad I use a prepaid VOIP service that accepts bitcoin.
- gruez 5y agoThere's even a prepaid e-sim provider that accepts bitcoin: https://silent.link/ https://silent.link/
- dionidium 5y agoRight, but surely they could run your credit and then throw away the data, right? What interest do they have in holding on to it?
- nealyoung 5y agoIf you stop paying, they want to make a report to the credit agencies.
- meowster 5y agoI think the solution is simple then: The SSN should be used for read-only. Once the credit report is read/accessed, the credit bureau issues a write-only code. The company then deletes the SSN and only retains the write-only code. If the write-only code is leaked later in a hack, it is useless to criminals trying to open new accounts.
- social_quotient 5y agoFolks haven’t learned that this data is a liability and not an asset.
- blacksmith_tb 5y agoNot necessarily, I'm on TMO, grandfathered in to an ancient 'unlimited data/100min talk' pre-paid plan (so they have very little on file for me, luckily).