You should also get your employer to not send your payroll data to Equifax. Opting out of Work Number only shuts off one way Equifax sells this information. The

You should also get your employer to not send your payroll data to Equifax. Opting out of Work Number only shuts off one way Equifax sells this information. They also collect the address on payroll and sell that database to law enforcement and skip tracers. You cannot opt out of that, to the best of my knowledge.